It's been another busy day here in 6F/6S/B! This time of year, at times it is difficult for students to remained focused on the work at hand. We are keeping busy, but I am noticing a bit of "checking out" on the students' parts. Any pep talk that you can give at home to help us remain focused and putting in our best efforts would really be appreciated!
Today in reading, we talked a lot about how to decode unknown words. Students in both classes gave me the strategies that they may use when coming across a word that they don't know how to read. The emphasis today was that of decoding only. We will talk about how to figure out the meanings of these words on Friday. Decoding strategies include: chunking the word into parts, recognizing smaller words within that word, using rules of phonics, looking at beginning sounds and ending sounds, thinking of similar words, etc. We then got together in our Avi book groups and decoded unfamiliar words together. We kept track of the strategies that we used for figuring out each word.
We had longer reading classes today so that Mr. Stokes could have more time to give the math test so I did not teach writing.
During science class, we began our project for genetics. Students learned about Paper Pets and began making parent paper pets with specific traits outlined in the guidelines.
