This week we are having fall break on Thursday and Friday. This is first break we've had since Labor Day (Monday off). The students are definitely ready for a little breather, and are showing the signs in their attention span.
The Reading Academy software seems to slowing building the skills in the first graders. Unfortunately, we have not had much time to work with the fourth graders on it. The basic skills that it touches on are really the building blocks for all reading and language comprehension. Hopefully, after fall break things will normalize again and we can use it more. As of Friday we now have computer pods in our classroom! This will make it much easier to access the program without interferring with a schedule class in the computer lab. On the downside, the Title 1 program is now beginning to use the program and because of the limited number of licenses this may become an issue.
I'm concerned because it is a short week that we will not have enough time to focus on the story and vocabulary before it's time to tst on it. With the fourth grade classes still on different stories, this also presents a challenge of managing the time efficiently. So far they have been doing very well on their weekly assessments (give or take a student and/or week), I have confidence that they will be able to keep it up this week even without the additional practice.
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