THOMPSON TRIBUNE
Eli Pinney Elementary, Room 120
April 18 - April 22, 2016
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Important Dates to
Remember for
Next Week
*Movie Night is on Friday,
April 29th at 6:00
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*Kindergarten information
meeting is on Wednesday,
April 27th from
7:00-8:00pm in the
Pinney commons !
*SAVE THE DATE:
“Celebration of Learning”
is on Thursday, May 12th
from 10:15-11:00am
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Academics
Reading Workshop- My Father’s Dragon, reading response for
“My Father’s Dragon”, revisiting Press Here, noticing similarities
and differences between books by the same author, reading
response about which Steve Jenkins books is your favorite and
why, sharing a response about something that surprised us
while we were reading
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Writing Workshop – Who Is Melvin Bubble?, what is
perspective?, brainstorming ideas about how we would describe
ourselves, writing about ourselves, question and answer books,
researching information for Q & A books, Friday Letter to mom
and dad
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Word Study - “short o vs. long o”, word practice, Smartboard
game, word sort, partner practice, Assessment will be on Friday,
April 29th
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Math - how to make a pie graph, what do you notice about
your pie graph?, “Close to 20”, adding multiples of 10 to twodigit numbers, subtraction split (subtracting by multiples of 10),
reviewing time
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Related Arts Schedule
(4 Day Rotation)
A - Day: – P.E. (Ms. Hathaway) B - Day: – Art (Mr. Blair)
C – Day – Library (Mrs. Riley)
D - Day - Music (Mrs. Casto)
STEM- what is energy and motion?, researching and sharing
facts about energy and motion, “marble maze You Tube videos”,
what do you think the rules were for making the marble
mazes?, what materials could you use?, planning/designing/
collaborating with a team to create a marble maze
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Featuring Room 120………………………”STEM: building challenge”