1. Mrs. Hake’s
Friday, March 16th
edition
CLASSROOM
news
Sneak Peak
Week in Review:
at Next Week
This week a quick and quiet leprechaun was in our room. Each day the leprechaun enjoyed being mischievous as he messed up our room and left us a note. We didn’t find him but he rewarded us with a rainbow treat! We wrote about how we would catch a leprechaun and what we would do with his gold. We worked on place value this week and modeled numbers using tens and ones. We had a green food taste test to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It was a delicious way to end the week!
Theme of the Week: Farm
Vowel friends: lonely a says a like in cat
Sci/Social Studies: living and nonliving
Math: subtraction
Rainbow words: six/purple
Contact info:
Kari Hake
Upcoming Events:
March 26th – 30th Spring Break

2. New Work Expectations for the last quarter
•In this last quarter expectations increase as we prepare for first grade. Continue to reinforce skills that need work and work on using skills and applying them. For example, using letters and sounds to read and write and using number knowledge to add and subtract.
•Moving on from only knowing letters and sounds to learning what vowel teams such as ai say.
•We continue to work on our goal of meeting a reading level of an independent C 3 and instructional C4 or higher. We are also continuing to work on writing 3 or more sentences.
Help me learn how to
understand the story
•Stop and explain what was read if it was confusing or if it was a new vocabulary word.
•Ask: “What do you think will happen next and why?
•Help me retell the story by slowly going through the book and asking, “What happened in the beginning, middle and end?”
•Ask: “Do you like that ending? How would you change the ending?
•Ask: “What was the problem for the story?” For example, “What was the problem with the Three Little Pigs’ houses?
•Ask: “How did the characters solve their problem?” For example, “How did the Three Little Pigs solve their housing problem?
•Discuss story elements: characters (people or animals in the story), setting (where the story takes place), plot (what happens), conclusion (how the story ends)
•After your child understands and has practiced the story, go back and reread the story with fluency (reading at a good pace without pauses after each word) and expression (excited for exclamation marks, raised voice for question marks), etc.
Rainbow WORDS
Trace, cut, practice:
out
six
purple