Lunch Menu Change

Tuesday, April 2nd - #1Beef Nachos, #2 Chicken Enchiladas

Wednesday, April 3rd - #1Chicken Nuggets, #2 Spaghetti and Meat Sauce with Breadstick

Upcoming Dates

March 25-29th- No School, Spring Break
Monday, April 1st- School Resumes
Friday, April 5th- Wear Blue for Autism Awareness Month

Spelling Words

Week Of:

April 1-5

1. ease

2. easy

3. squeak

4. squeaky

5. need

6. needy

7. gloom

8. gloomy

9. snoop

10.  snoopy

11.  goof

12.  goofy

13.  jerk

14.  jerky

15.  thirst

16.  thirsty

17.  worm

18.  wormy

Spring Break

Spring Break is upon us and it is a great time for your child to recharge his/her batteries for the last stretch of the school year. Play some cards with your child, visit family and friends, read, and have your child be active every day during Spring Break. Have a well deserved break!

Writing

In writing this week your child worked on writing a Spring poem. Be watching for your child's poem in the Pencil Pride section of the Maple Lake Messenger in the upcoming weeks.

Websites to Electronic Flash Cards

The following are links to electronic flash cards.
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/
http://www.allmath.com/flashcards.php
http://www.aaamath.com/
http://www.mathplayground.com/MathAttack.html

Wednesday Lunch Menu Change

#1

Chicken Nuggets

#2

Cheeseburger

Friday Lunch Menu Change

Friday's Elementary breakfast menu will be adjusted due to today's late start. Friday's breakfast entree will be the egg and cheese bagel sandwich vs. the originally planned sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.

Upcoming Dates

March 25th- 29th- No School, Spring Break

Spelling Words

Week Of:

March 18-22

1. round

2. rounder

3. smooth

4. smoother

5. light

6. lighter

7. funny

8. funniest

9. early

10. earliest

11. pretty

12. prettiest

13. big

14. bigger

15. sad

16. sadder

17. hot

18. hottest

Science

In science students continue to work on their Force and Motion Tops Experiment and they are loving it!

Cafe Strategy

Flip the Sound

Flip the sound is a strategy good readers use when they come to a word that doesn't sound right or make sense. Knowing the multiple sounds a letter or letter combination can make and being able to flip the sounds around is an essential skill for young readers to learn.

Making Inferences

In class students have been working on making inferences. An inference means figuring out something that is not directly stated within a text. Inferences are often made based off of one or more clues from within a text. When reading texts, author's don't always tell readers everything but they include clues that readers can put together for themselves. Making inferences helps readers better understand the ideas within a text.

Word of the Month

Friendship- being kind, treating others the way you want to be treated, helping one another, working together

Math

In math students are beginning to work on subtracting two-digit numbers with and without borrowing. Through practice and repetition students will be subtraction masters by the end of this math unit as well!

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, March 12th- School will begin at normal time, 8:00. No Late Start Today!
Thursday, March 14th- Book Orders Due

Spelling Words

Week Of:

March 11-15

1. paint

2. painter

3. write

4. writer

5. farm

6. farmer

7. act

8. actor

9. sail

10. sailor

11. visit

12. visitor

13. swim

14. swimmer

15. run

16. runner

17. rob

18. robber

Science

Students are just getting started on a top project, which focuses on force and motion. Students are making some tops here in class out of cardboard to get some experience. A note came home in this weeks Wednesday envelope about making a top at home. We are asking that all tops be brought to school by March 13. 

Phonics

In phonics your child worked with words that ended with ing or ed.  Throughout the week your child spelled, sorted, and read words with the above two endings.

Writing

In writing students are working on Persuasive Writing. Trying to convince someone!

Cafe Strategy

Asking Questions Throughout the Reading Process

Good readers continually ask themselves questions before, during, and after reading a selection. Asking questions increases a child's comprehension while keeping them engaged while reading. When reading with your child ask questions such as:

• What does this mean?
• Is this important?
• How do you think the story will end?
• What does this word mean?
• Do you need to read it again?