tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172852720778903842024-02-20T01:49:23.602-08:00Room 100 Focus WallTeachers and Parents of Students at Forest Hill School can review our weekly focus based around our story for each week.Amy Ruddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18177520075043676835noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917285272077890384.post-1343702998227314562008-04-18T17:53:00.000-07:002008-04-18T18:02:34.847-07:00Fishing BearsOur new theme is "Going Places".<br />Our new story is "Fishing Bears".<br />Our focus skill is adding er and est.<br />Our focus strategy that good readers use will be "following the plot".<br />Our spelling words are: find, kind, mind, mild, child, wild, day, play, sure and son.<br />Our vocabulary words are: both, during, and ready.<br />We need to practice finding the main idea.<br />We will study all about bears!Amy Ruddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18177520075043676835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917285272077890384.post-44489426749561210332008-01-25T11:14:00.000-08:002008-01-25T11:49:25.574-08:00A Bed Full of Cats from Harcourt Trophies<a href="http://www.harcourtschool.com/teacher_resources/trophies/lesson_planner/grade1/lessplan/1lpth5.pdf"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.harcourtschool.com/teacher_resources/trophies/lesson_planner/grade1/lessplan/1lpth5.pdf" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Our new theme is "Hello, Neighbor".<br />Our new story is "A Bed Full of Cats".<br />Our focus skill is alphabetizing.<br />Our focus strategy that good readers use will be "drawing conclusions".<br />Our spelling words are: me, mean, be, bean, beet, feet, low, road, who, and door.<br />Our vocabulary words are: also, know, moved, only, room, should, those, write and anything.<br />We need to practice writing names of holidays.<br />We will study the long vowel sound /e/ spelled with "e", "ee" or "ea".Amy Ruddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18177520075043676835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917285272077890384.post-43536800148464241702008-01-19T19:31:00.000-08:002008-01-19T19:41:43.933-08:00The Fox and the Stork-from Harcourt TrophiesOur theme: I Think I Can!<br /><br />Our story: The Fox and the Stork<br /><br />The genre of our story is: A Fable<br /><br />Our focus skill: identifying characters<br /><br />Our focus strategy that good readers use: <br /><br />Our vocabulary words: door, kind, made, who, and would<br /><br />Our review words: talk and school<br /><br />Our spelling words: low, bow, row, road, soap, boat, wiggle, middle, talk and school.<br /><br />Please practice reviewing the names of the months of the year!<br />January, February, March and April<br />May and June and July and August<br />September, October, November, December<br />These are the months of the year!<br /><br />Also, we will be working on adding inflectional endings -s, -ed, and -ing.Amy Ruddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18177520075043676835noreply@blogger.com