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Name: | Felicia Samson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daily / Weekly Schedule Breakfast Games and Homework Check (20 minutes) King Elephant, Boggle, Scattegories, Trivial Pursuit, Hangman, Chess, Checkers, Connect Four, Tic-Tac-Toe, Jacks, Mastermind, Mancala, etc. Transition: Clean-up with Rhymes and Chants (5 minutes) Math Facts and Practice (40 minutes) Minute Math, etc. Transition: Put away Math materials and get out Reading materials (5 minutes) P.E. and Dance (45 minutes) SEFS, Football, Soccer, Frisbee Golf, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Capoeira, etc. Recess and Snack (10 minutes) Silent Reading (20 minutes) BORE, Accelerated Reader, Reading Lists, Amazon, etc. Transition: Move to Stations (5 minutes) Language Arts (45 minutes) Stations, Spelling, GMP, Guided, Writing, Quotes, Vocabulary, etc. Transition: New Materials (5 minutes) History/ Science/ Health/ History/ Science (45 minutes) Stations, Clothing, Cultures, Labs, Languages, etc. Individual Conferences and Selected Activity (20 minutes) Lunch (30 minutes) Read-Aloud Plus (30 minutes) Reading List, BORE, Leveled Questions, Reciprocal Teaching, Story Quilts, etc. Transition: New Materials (5 minutes) Music/ Art/ Careers/ Theatre/ ELR's (60 minutes) Guests, Presentations, Goal-Setting, Project Deadlines, Calendars, etc. Transition: New Materials (5 minutes) Historical Fact/ Quote Sharing/ Morphemes/ Vocabulary Sharing/ Show and Tell (30 minutes) WOW's, Sharing, Timeline, Rhymes, Chants, etc. Clean-Up with Rhymes, Chants, and Reminders (10 minutes) Dismissal Homework Club (35 minutes) ******** Homework Flashcard Practice Independent Reading Read Togethers Question for the Week Math Practice Spelling Practice BOREs Notes Home ******** Instructional Minutes: 355 minutes Transitional Instruction Minutes: 40 minutes Nutrition and Recess Minutes: 40 minutes Total Minutes: 435 minutes |