Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh the joys of those who take refuge in him! Psalm 34:8
Fall is my favorite time of the year whether the weather is unseasonable warm or cool. Colors are vibrant, change is in the air, and there is a lot to look forward to with the coming winter holidays.
My group of students are very creative this year and love a chance to pull out the craft supplies and get busy.
I picked up a mini pumpkin for each student at the grocery store and we had a pumpkin decorating contest on the day of our fall festival. The kids completed some Halloween themed task cards and we read, listened and watched some 3:15 Stories.
I am always on the look out for reading fluency ideas because my students are mid level age and can memorize passages pretty fast when presented with material at their reading level. A sixth grader reading at second grade level can remember second grade material easily so I have to keep changing it up. It also helps keep them interested and build their confidence when we keep moving on to new things. The past couple of weeks during reading interventions I have been using the Star Wars themed fluency phrase task cards from Teachers Pay Teachers. They are always a hit with my low readers because they are a fun way to practice commonly used phrases.
Our school uses the Journey's reading curriculum for grades K-6 which is available digitally and hard copy so we can listen to each story as a class. A student can go back and re listen to certain sections, as needed. This allows my students to hear grade level content so they are not getting further behind. They all LOVE e books that include audio. A few websites we use this year for ebooks are: Capstone, Epic and True Flix. This allows all students to have access to grade level texts that they normally could not read. I am always on the lookout for more ebooks. Gone are the days trying to find batteries for clunky C.D. players! We still have some lying around, but every other disk is always scratched up so ebooks are definitely the way to go in the resource classroom.
