The Ski Report
Here is what we are learning this week:
Language Arts
I can read short /e/ words with consonant blends and suffixes.
I can read Sight Words.
I can spell short /e/ words.
I can tell who the characters are in a story.
I can tell what the setting is in a story.
I can retell a story using pictures.
I can tell what happens in the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
I can find facts in a non-fiction text.
I can tell if a text is fiction or non-fiction.
I can write a sentence with a capital at the beginning.
I can write a sentence with a period at the end.
I can listen to others.
I can have a conversation with someone.
I can ask and answer questions.
Math
I can solve addition equations and word problems by counting on.
I can use the turn-around rule to solve addition equations and word problems.
I can identify pairs that make ten.
I can compare numbers.
I can decompose numbers within 10.
I can collect and analyze data.
I can use tally marks correctly and tell what each tally mark stands for.
Science
I can tell what living things need in order to survive.
I can make observations and tell others about them.
Social Studies
I am a good citizen.
I can follow rules and tell why they are important.
I can be Respectful, Responsible, Ready.
Next Friday, October 21, we will spend the afternoon exploring and investigating
Math and Science concepts by using pumpkins! We will count, measure, weigh,
hypothesize about, and yes, carve those pumpkins! The pumpkins will then go on
display in front of the building and be there for the Harvest Party. Please take your
pumpkin home when you leave the Harvest Party. We will leave them until Monday.
Any pumpkins that are still in front of the building after school on Monday will be
thrown away.
You can find videos with pictures of Zoo projects from previous years on our
classroom web page. Classes are listed by year and they are on the video tab for
each class. Students are enjoying learning with the web site Switch Zoo. Zoo
Tycoon would be a fun app to play
We always need snacks to fill up our cupboard. 
Join us on twitter or Facebook to see pictures and get more information about what
we are doing.
10/10-10/13
HW: Read for 20 minutes
Please return Just Right Bags
every day.
Poetry Folders go home
Thursday and come back
Tuesday.
October
10-13: Book Fair
13: Conference Night
14 & 17: No School
18: Research Due
20: Pumpkins Due
21: Pumpkin Science 1-3
22: Harvest Party 4-7
24: Habitats Due
28: Classroom Store AM,
Classroom Zoo 2:30
29: Bergen Bryan Scholarship
Dinner
November
23-28 No School Happy
Thanksgiving!
We are so proud of Richey
for being the very first
Reash’s Rockstar
in First Grade!
If you are going to need help
with the pumpkins or
materials for the zoo
project, please let me know
and I will gladly help.
I’m looking forward to talking
with you at conferences.
They are this Thursday
evening.
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Story of the Week: Get the Egg
HFW : small, saw, your, tree
Test will be choosing the right word to complete a sentence.
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Vocabulary Words : perch, habitat, nest, twigs
Test will be matching words or pictures.
Spelling Words
Level AA: red, bed, bet, jet, wet
Level A: bed, men, red, step, ten, net, leg, jet, sled, wet
Level B: men, nesting, blend, west, helps, tent, spend, leg jet, speck
Level C: blends, spent, smelling, nests, helping, check, shells, inspect, object, reflect
Tests will be on SpellingCity.com.
Phonics Skills for the Week: Short /e/, consonant blends
bed beg bell deck dress fed fell get
helping hen Jen jet less nests peg press
smell spend step webs yelling yes block
brick clam clock drip flap glass grab grin
slick spot swim twig
We will also work with adding suffixes -ing and -s to base words:
backing fixing packing going locking
waxing seeing jumping helping doing
spins drops tracks trips stands sprints
stamps stops straps spending blocking
yells shocks chants chomps chomping