1. Mrs. Hake’s Classroom News Friday, Sept. 16 th edition 2016-2017 Week in Review : Sneak Peak AT NEXT WEEK Contact info: Kari Hake Khake@tippcity.k12.oh.us 937-667-2275 This week we learned all about the letter Ff as we talked about family and friends. We read Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber and wrote about the things we would pack for a sleep over. We traced some of our friends in class and wrote characteristics of a good friend. Another book about friends that we enjoyed reading and listening to is The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. We continued learning about how to sort objects by different attributes (color, shape, size) and we also talked about various patterns (AB, ABB, ABC, AAB...). Continuing with graphs, we made a graph about how many people are in our families. We are busy working on our Daily 5 reading groups, practicing/learning what we do, how we should look and sound during choice activities and team activities. Our class is doing well. Theme for the Week : Nursery Rhymes Math: Patterns Science/Social Studies: Ears, Eyes and other 5 senses Language Concepts: Ee Popcorn Word: Are/do Upcoming Events: September 23 – In Service-No Classes October 21 - In Service-No Classes Next Week’s Food We will need the following donated for an activity: 2 lemons 1 block of bakers chocolate 1 bag of Milk Chocolate Kisses 1 bag of Pretzels

2. POPCORN WORDS Bag-a-Books Your child will be starting a bag–a- book program. This program encourages a love of reading and beginning reading skills. Students will each receive a clear Ziploc like bag with white handles and their name on it. This will be used for bag-a-book traveling to and from school. Students can take home 1-2 books at a time. There is no time limit on how long they have the same books, however, we encourage them to change them daily/weekly. We must have them in class each day for our read-to-self time during Daily 5. When the previous book is returned a new book may be selected. This is the student’s responsibility each day as a part of morning work. Students will have access to a variety of good literature as well as leveled text. Please support this program by reading with your child, letting your child read to you, allowing your child to make up stories, and discussing what was read. Please help us to keep our libraries up by returning books so that others can enjoy them. Also, make sure to write down all the books that they read from this bag on the chart provided inside the bag. The students will earn prizes every time they fill one out and turn it in to the teacher! are do  Skipping – Students are working with the Physical Education Teacher on this skill too!  Patterning with food, toys, colors…  Highlight the letters and rainbow words that we have learned in a newspaper or a piece of junk mail.  Discuss shapes you see everywhere. Review colors. Use them to pattern.  Buttoning and zipping – this slows us down during restroom breaks.  Pencil grip - pinch with two fingers and then rest.  Cutting – Thumbs up with both hands and cut away from you.  Practice cutting out different shapes and saying what the shape is. Keep reading! Snacks Snacks can be sent in anytime, if you signed up for September.