Breakfast
Index Cards (10 minutes)
Name, Family, Pets, Interests and Hobbies, Strengths, Want to Improve, Something Interesting
Introduce Self, Welcome Letter (15 minutes)
Base introduction on index card questions as well, and segue to welcome letter...
Welcome letter --> classroom expectations, ELR's, class schedule, homework policy, etc.
Writing Assignment #1 (30 minutes)
Use index card information to write a letter of introduction to classmates and me.
Share / edit letter with neighbor (15 minutes)
Final drafts of letters / pictures if time (35 minutes)
**10 minutes wiggle room; can start intros before recess**
Recess (10 minutes)
Introduce neighbor to class (30 minutes)
Morphemes (10 minutes)
Intro, kinesis-phone-sonus
Vocabulary WOW (30 minutes)
"Communicate"
word, p.o.s., definition from dictionary, definition in own words, sentence, variations, examples of, examples of not, graphic representation/illustration/word art
Read-Aloud: Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul (15 minutes)
BORE #1: Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul (40 minutes)
Explain BORE (5 minutes)
Think-Write-Pair-Share (10 minutes)
Draft (10 minutes)
Share (15 minutes)
Game: Mastermind (15 minutes)
Explicit: math, logic, and philosophy on games
Lunch (30 minutes)
Read-Aloud (Plus): True Story of the Three Little Pigs (20 minutes)
Class SOAP it up! (15 minutes)
Explicit: history is a mystery
Class Plotline (15 minutes)
Class Character Sketch of Wolf (15 minutes)
Theatre: Still Frames of True Story of Three Little Pigs(25 minutes)
Class BATEO outline for True Story of Three Little Pigs (25 minutes)
Class BATEO #1 for True Story of Three Little Pigs (15 minutes)
Individual Illustration (10 minutes)
Dismissal
Homework Club (35 minutes)
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Homework
Welcome Letter