Hi Everyone!
I am a newbie to forum posting (I've been trying to start this week!) although I have read everything you've all posted over the last year, which was my first with MP. A very sincere thank you to all the advice I've read this year. Whenever I had a question, it had already been asked and warmly and intelligently answered already!
My question now is about ATF&F in the 3A curriculum I am using this year. I was watching a youtube video covering the 3-4 grade overview with Jessica Watson. She said that at HLS they are only really focusing on the first 2 units, the keyword and story sequencing, in third grade. The 3A plans cover all the units in the program. Is that simply a time constraint since the classroom teacher has so many more children to work with than most of us do at home? Or should we at home perhaps focus more time on the first 2 units as well? I read through the program and it seems fairly doable as is, but I was just wondering if there was a benefit to focusing more narrowly this year. I'd be curious how they were stretching those 2 units over a whole school year, and if there were other things they were doing to supplement it, like outlining or sequencing readings that were supplied elsewhere.
I'm fully prepared to use the plans as written...just wondering if anyone was doing them any differently.
Thanks!
Tracy
I am a newbie to forum posting (I've been trying to start this week!) although I have read everything you've all posted over the last year, which was my first with MP. A very sincere thank you to all the advice I've read this year. Whenever I had a question, it had already been asked and warmly and intelligently answered already!
My question now is about ATF&F in the 3A curriculum I am using this year. I was watching a youtube video covering the 3-4 grade overview with Jessica Watson. She said that at HLS they are only really focusing on the first 2 units, the keyword and story sequencing, in third grade. The 3A plans cover all the units in the program. Is that simply a time constraint since the classroom teacher has so many more children to work with than most of us do at home? Or should we at home perhaps focus more time on the first 2 units as well? I read through the program and it seems fairly doable as is, but I was just wondering if there was a benefit to focusing more narrowly this year. I'd be curious how they were stretching those 2 units over a whole school year, and if there were other things they were doing to supplement it, like outlining or sequencing readings that were supplied elsewhere.
I'm fully prepared to use the plans as written...just wondering if anyone was doing them any differently.
Thanks!
Tracy
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