Math-Please work toward mastery, whether that means your lesson is shorter or longer than what is assigned. Students should be completing workbook lessons independently. There are new math facts in the campus binders. We are working our way forward with more difficult addition problems.
Spelling- Although the phonograms/sounds are broken up by quarter for assessment, ideally you are reviewing all of them regularly. Depending on your student's mastery of the material, that may look like once a week, every other week, etc. Knowing the phonograms is key to being able to decode more difficult words.
Reading-Regardless of reading level, please continue to have your students read aloud. We will spend all of this semester on Stuart Little and The Boxcar Children. While Stuart Little is actually a higher reading level, the comprehension guide for Boxcar is more difficult, presenting questions that require inference from the text rather than strait content. Because of this, you may need to read part of Stuart Little to your student. We are shooting for reading to be an hour total, including the OPG lessons, classical reader, and answering the comprehension guide. You may have students answer questions orally and you write the answer as long as they are the ones copying it on the comprehension guide, which will still be turned in weekly on Mondays. They should be pretty good at those by now so if their answer is overly simplistic or doesn't use examples from the text, challenge them a little!
Poetry-I wanted to highlight, in case you missed it, that students are to continue to work on reciting all poems learned thus far, as well as "The Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi". This is the one poem that I require them to recite (usually they're able to pick which poem they want to do) and there is not a due date because they may do it at any point during the semester. We recite this daily in class and most of the class can already recite it but doing it by yourself is always a little different than with a group so be sure to work on this at home. The students have LOTS of practice reciting in front of the class so I'm going to have high standards when it comes to volume, eye contact, body language (standing strait with hands at side and no fidgeting) as well as accuracy. Again, we practice all of those things daily in class. If a student is not able to do those things listed above, I'll give them some feedback and ask them to practice more at home and recite again for us at a later time.
