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* Friday Journals will come home on Fridays. Please read and RETURN ON
MONDAY!
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*Fall Festival at Leeds Farm is tonight, Friday, October
9th from 6:00-8:30pm
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*Reading Envelopes need to be returned every day with the books inside!
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)
Eli Pinney Elementary, Room 120
October 5- October 9, 2015
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Reading Workshop - Global Read Aloud: Amy Rosenthal Krouse, Week #1:
Chopsticks, using “Padlet” to post our thinking and connect with other 1st graders around the country, Ready Freddy: Pumpkin Elf Mystery, making a timeline to help us remember what has happened in the story, Fall Leaves
Fall, what does read to self look like? (quiet, stay in 1 spot, eyes on your book, read the whole time), what does buddy reading loo like?, WindBlown, discussing characters and setting and how they can change !
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Writing Workshop – taking a nature walk as a class, taking photos of our walk, creating a shared narrative writing piece of our nature walk, continue working on our own narratives, reviewing beginnings and transition words, charting ideas for the ending part of the narrative, sharing our writing,
Friday letter to Mom and Dad
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Word Study - “at” and “an”, poem, word study investigators (searching for words with the at and an chunks), create a class list, word sort, Smart Board game, Assessment will be on Friday, 10/16/15
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Math - “Total of 10”, “10s Go Fish”, 10 Beans/Trains (combinations to make 10),
Rich Problem: The Address Problem, Red/Blue/Green (using 3 numbers to make 10
Science - Why Do Leaves Change Color?, Sky Tree, painting a tree to show a specific season and time of day, using magnifying glasses to observe leaves, making leaf prints, writing our observations of our leaf prints, When The
Leaves Fall Off The Trees, “Image of the Week: Fall Leaves, discussing our observations/wonders/questions/opinions about our image, !
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*discussing “6 Thinking Habits” (question, collaborate, create, persevere, flexible, communicate)