What's in the Forsman Future?

Spelling
We are going to take a brief break from spelling next week to focus more on our study of phonics and the multiple sounds that certain letters and combinations of letters make.  Therefore there will be no homework packet or Friday test.  Yay!

Reading
I will not be at school on Friday, so the poem I pass out on Monday for Poetry Cafe, the students will read for me on Thursday instead.  We will also writing poems as a class next week.  To continue our study of fairy tales (the genre of the month) we will read classic fairy tales and use antonyms to make them fractured and silly.  We will create our own fractured fairy tales as well.  The students really like these and so do I. :)

Math
We are studying division next week - not only the "divided by___" tests, but also the actual reasoning and rational behind division.  We will continue to use manipulatives to aid instruction in this area.


Writing
This week's prompt:  If I were the teacher one rule I would make is...  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!