THOMPSON TRIBUNE
Eli Pinney Elementary, Room 120
September 14- September 18, 2015
Important Dates to
Remember for
Next Week
*Friday Journals will come
home on Fridays. Please
read and RETURN ON
MONDAY!
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*Please send in 2 of your
favorite apples this Monday,
September 21 in a bag
labeled with your child’s
name :)
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*Reading Envelopes need
to be returned every day
with the books inside!
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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)
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Academics
Reading Workshop- Fantastic Mr. Fox, making a timeline to help us
remember what has happened in Fantastic Mr. Fox, 3 ways to read a
book (look at the pictures, read the words, retell the story), what
does read to self look like? (quiet, stay in 1 spot, eyes on your book,
read the whole time), Growing Vegetable Soup, Biographies of Famous
Americans, 3 Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, where to find books
and how to put them away in our classroom library
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Writing Workshop – Library Mouse, Rocket Writes A Story,
brainstorm ideas to write about, began writing our own stories using
blank books, sharing our writing, Friday letter to Mom and Dad
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Word Study - star of the day, student interviews, making new words
with the letters of our names, formal spelling inventory assessments
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Math - Anno’s Counting Book, “Roll And Record Addition”, 7 Beans/
Trains (combinations to make 7), Tikki Tikki Tembo, Rich Problem: Tikki
vs. Chrysanthemum, “Peas and Carrots” (combinations of numbers),
math choice, 100s chart Cut-Up (counting by 10s and 1s)
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Social Studies - Wow! America, what are words and symbols to
represent the United States, I Pledge Allegiance, creating our own
folk art flag, O Say Can You See?, what is the constitution?,
Constitution Day, We The Kids,“Image of the Week: the flag”,
discussing our observations/wonders/questions/opinions about our
image, !
*discussing “6 Thinking Habits” (question, collaborate, create,
persevere, flexible, communicate)
Featuring Room 120…………………”collaborating in the classroom”