What's in the Forsman Future?
Spelling
We will continue to work on synonyms/antonyms and analogies this next week. There is nothing to study, I am just continually assessing their understanding of these word relationships. After the Thanksgiving break, we will resume regular spelling lessons and testing schedules.
Reading
We are taking a break from our work with Horrible Harry in Room 2B in favor of some Thanksgiving Reader's Theater for fluency as well as practicing our reading strategies using Thanksgiving themed literature.
Reading RTI
My Tier 3 RTI group is continuing to work on the five areas of reading: fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension. We have started to talk about "genre" and how to identify what genre a story, novel, etc. is. Our group is now working in partners with short stories of varying genres to read and pull out the main idea and important details so they can summarize their literary work to the class! This gives me a chance to walk around and work with the students on a more individual level as well as fostering leadership skills and independence with our reading comprehension strategies!
Math
We will be starting to discuss the time portion of chapter 5 next week and then Thanksgiving Break is upon us. We will continue to work on time after break as well. We are planning on making a cute visual aid for the students to better comprehend elapsed time.
Math RTI
We will continue to preview and review the concepts from the 3rd grade math curriculum as well as supplementing with number sense intervention and review. We will continue to work on the concept of counting money and work our way to counting back change (which is typically difficult at this grade level) Please try to give your students opportunities at home to work with coins and paper money. Help them feel comfortable identifying their various values as well as counting it out, etc. Then we will move on to supporting their study of telling time and working with amounts of time.
English
This week's prompt: Choose a person you admire. Describe his or her most admirable traits. Try to elaborate and add exciting details to your response. Make it into a paragraph and think of 6 sentences to support your topic sentence. You could even make this into a creative story!
Tune in next Friday for more Forsman Fun!