What's in the Forsman Future?

ISATS! Everyone's favorite time of year is upon us! Hopefully everyone will come back to school rested after the long weekend ready to show their stuff!

Here are a few tips:

1. Get lots of sleep!

2. Eat a healthy breakfast

3. Be ready with your supplies (calculator for the students taking the ISATS with me and at LEAST 2 sharpened #2 pencils).

4. Plan to bring a healthy snack to school each day.

5. Stay positive about this test!

I do not want the students to feel pressured, but I do want them to understand the importance of doing their best! If you would like to type an email or handwrite a "good luck" note or note of encouragement c/o me I will get them to your student as a fun surprise before their first test!

Reading
Please continue to read daily with your child and encourage them to use high level vocabulary words in their every day speech. If you model this, it can be fun to do together. Any chance to respond to reading in writing is great practice as well.

Math
With regards to math, facts, facts, facts! We do a lot of mixed practice here in school of all types of math- but the facts are a part of that and repetition is the key! We are spending a lot more time now on higher level thinking types of math problems so we do not much chance to drill the facts anymore. Also real world math application is important- so please continue to give your student chances to use what they learn here like time, money, measurement, etc.

Writing
This week's prompt:
Why do you think a cat has whiskers and a chicken does not? Explain your reasoning. 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!