What's in the Forsman Future?

Spelling
We are pretesting with List #4 on Monday of next week. Please remember that if your student receives a 90% or higher they will be working from the "challenge" list of words for their homework. All homework is due on Friday and if your student is taking the posttest, that will be Friday as well. My spelling students will always have their homework stapled together as a packet to help them keep all required parts together.

Reading
Now we will start to put the reading strategies we have learned to great use while reading various types of literature. We will always be reviewing/using all of the strategies, but for the coming weeks we will highly focus on the strategies of sequencing and summarizing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. As a third grade we are really highlighting oral and written responses to what was read and will integrate this throughout. We will also work on an extended response where we use ideas from the text combined with our own ideas to answer a question.

Math
We took our first chapter test today and will need to complete it on Monday. Please note that after we complete each chapter we will be going through our math folders to place un-needed papers in the "keep at home" pocket. Please help the students clear out the keep at home pockets nightly. Right after part two of our test, we will be starting Chapter 4 on Subtraction. We start off with a quick review of the subtraction touch math strategy and then discuss fact families, double and triple digit subtraction with regrouping, and subtracting across zeros.

English
My focus for the English section of my blog will be shifting from the classroom (please consult the blogs of your child's classroom teacher for this) to general writing tips and prompts for daily writing journals. I write in my blogs all the time about the importance of daily writing - even if it is just a sentence a day. If your student has a notebook by their bed try to get them into the habit of recording a dream (in complete sentences) that they had the night before or recording a wish they have for the coming day. Be creative and this can be fun for kids!!

This coming week's prompt: When I get older, I want to be a ___________ because...

Tune in next Friday for more Forsman Fun!