Here is a peek into our day. I send an agenda home each Monday so families know what we have planned for the week.
7:50 - arrive, eat breakfast 8:00 - order lunch, complete daily check-in 8:10 - Announcements, Prayer, Morning Meeting 8:20 - Math 9:15 - Religion 10:00 - ELA (advanced phonics/fluency, comprehension, spelling) 10:30 - Writer's Workshop 10:55 - recess 11:15 - grammar, cursive 11:35 - Lunch 12:00 - mindfulness 12:05 - Social Studies or Science 12:45 - ELA (reader's workshop) 1:15 - SPECIALS 2:00 - Recess 2:20 - ELA (novel studies) 2:45 - Strive for 5 daily check-out 2:50 - pack for home 3:00 - dismissal |
Here is a copy of what my lesson plan template and weekly agenda look like. Of course things change day to day, but I try my best to stick to our routine and plan.
SMART Seminar
One year I was able to do a SMART seminar at the end of every day, other years due to schedule conflicts I use it only on Friday afternoons. What is SMART seminar you ask? Well let me share with you! S - Stories (students access online storybook sites to listen to audiobooks and animated books) M - Math games (multiplication games through www.multiplication.com, flash cards, math board games, math folder games I have made) A - Art (coloring, drawing, water color paint, making cards, ect.) R - Read (read a book from our classroom library on our comfy chairs in our library corner) T - Typing (using school approved typing sites to improve our keyboarding skills) |
The student of the day leads the meeting. We start our meeting sitting in a large circle at the carpet/mini lesson are of our classroom.
Rules - the student leader leads us in saying all our classroom rules and the gestures that go along with the rules. Little Visit/Share - I have a question each day that I pose to the class and they discuss it with the person on their left, then the person on their right. Glow/Grow - the student leader chooses a peer to share a "glow", something they are proud of that they have done, or a good decision they were proud of making. Then a peer shares a "grow" something they think they can do better or work on. Today in History - I read today's date entry out of the book to see what interesting happened in history on that particular date. Greeting Vote - we have a list of greetings and the student of the day names 2. We vote with show of hands for which greeting to do that day. Majority wins. Hello Neighbor - we all stand up, mingle, and greet our classmates using the voted upon greeting of the day. Class Pledge - We recite our classroom pledge as each child goes to sit in their assigned carpet/lesson spot. Morning Message - the student leader points as we read the message. Our message always ends in a question (the same one I posed as the meeting started) The student leader chooses 3 peers to share with the entire class their answer to the question of the day. |
This year our schedule provides us with "Seminar" time where students can finish their assignments from the day and then choose a self selected activity.
Due to seminar I am not running an afternoon meeting at this time, but this is the routine we used in 2019! We end our day, just as we began it...in a large meeting circle. Bucket Goal - we are a bucket filling classroom and work daily towards our goal. We talk about how many pom poms we earned for our bucket today and how we got them. Shine/Polish - the student leader chooses one classmate to tell us what we shined at as a whole class today, then one classmate tells us what we need to polish up as a group and can do better at for tomorrow. Wonderopolis - We discuss the wonder of the day and talk about the discoveries we made on the site as we researched the curious phenomenon. Daily Reflection - All the students do a daily reflection. They place their fist in front of their heart and reflect on their attitude, focus, and effort today. They use their fingers to show 1,2,3. 3 being the highest and 1 being the lowest. (I know most of the kids aren't honest in the fingers they hold up showing how focused they were or if they had a good attitude, but I know internally they think about how they did today and that is the important thing. Activity - if there is time before the clean up bell we do a short activity/camp game. Pass the penny, around the world with math cards, clapping games, ect. Poison Dart Frog is always their favorite so we do it every Friday! |