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Students enter the classroom from 8:20 to 8:50 AM. Students enter at different times due to transportation and participation in the breakfast program. During this time, students will have the opportunity to use "Open Centers" which includes dramatic play, doll house, blocks, housekeeping, puzzles, science, library, and computers. |
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Our morning meeting will last approximately 15 to 20 minutes each day. The set-up of morning meeting is part of the Responsive Classroom Approach. It will include four components: a greeting, sharing time, group activity time, and announcements. The importance of morning meeting is to build a welcoming classroom environment for all students. Each day we will greet each other in a special and unique way. Students will take turns sharing about themselves so we are able to learn more about our classmates. (Please note this is not show and tell.) Participating in a group activity will teach students how to work together and cooperate to complete a single task. Our daily announcements allows the students to feel ownership in the classroom when they know what is expected to happen each day. |
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Music and Movement time is a quick time to get out our wiggles! We will sing and dance to our favorite songs and poems. We will complete a few exercises to get our minds and bodies ready for reading. |
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Whole group reading consists of many parts. We are using the Harcourt Publishers newest edition "StoryTown" for our curriculum. Included in this time will be phonemic awareness, phonics, writing, reading, comprehension, high frequency word, and more! Each day at whole group, students will learn a newletter and the sound it makes. We will learn our new high frequency words (popcorn words) together at this time. Each day we will read a story, using big books or library books, or we will read a poem. After hearing the story or poem, we will ask questions to help our understanding of this new text. For ideas on helping your child's comprehension click on the "Home Practice" link on the website. |
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Small group reading is an extension of the morning whole group reading time. Students will be divided into small groups of 4 or 5 depending on the skills they are working on. Groups will change throughout the year. During small group, students will review the main lesson of the day, read a story on his/her reading level, participate in activities related to the story, complete letter/sound recognition activities, high frequency words (popcorn words) activities, etc. Small groups provide an opportunity for the teacher to guide each student at his/her level of reading. This is a time where students will be challenged to meet individual goals which are reinforced throughout the day. |
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Literacy centers include library, book box, computers, alphabet centers, stamping, file folder skill games, letter/sound knowledge, writing, word wall, word family activities, word building, popcorn words, etc. Students are assigned to literacy centers on a rotating schedule. Centers are available for 1 to 2 weeks depending on the time needed to complete each center. After this time, the centers will change according to the skills we are working on in whole group and what we may need to review. |
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