General Daily Schedule
Edie Jacobs, AM Kindergarten
8:10 -8:30 Students Arrive
Students are responsible for morning jobs: unpack their purple take-
home folders, hang up their name card on the number strip for attendance
purposes, answer “question of the day” or count items in the ”counting
jar”.
8:30-9:00 Calendar, Attendance, & Math concepts
Students participate in the following routines: taking attendance,
counting how many students are present, creating and comparing
an “attendance stick”, stating the month, day of the week, date, weather and
current season, and adding a day to our “number of days in school” number
chart. Also, new math concepts will be introduced during this whole group
time.
9:00-9:10 Whole group Language Arts instruction (handwriting/Kid
Writing)
At this time, students are engaged in a Language Arts activity. It
may be working on Handwriting without Tears, or working on pictures for
their Kid Writing stories.
9:10-9:40 Special Class per schedule below:
Day 1 – Healthy habits Day 5 – Creative Movement
Day 2 – none Day 6 – Gym
Day 3 – Music Day 7 – Library
Day 4 – none
9:40-10:00 Whole group instruction / Kid Writing and Story
At this time, students are engaged in one or more of the following
activities: phonemic awareness activity, shared reading, shared writing.
Story – Students will attend to, predict, respond, and
answer retelling/comprehension questions about the daily story.
10:00-11:00 Small group center rotation / Kid Writing
During this time student will split into 3 or 4 small groups and
perform different learning activities at 3 or 4 different tables. Each
activity will be an extension of subject material that we are working on
(guided reading, alphabet and letter recognition, sounds of letters,
responding to writing prompts, Hand writing Without Tars instruction, math
manipulative exploration, fine muscle develop through art projects and
cutting, etc.)
One table activity will be teacher directed, one table will be
directed by an aide or parent volunteer, one table will be an independent
activity, and one table will be free choice (they will choose from given
choices, areas of the room to play cooperatively and explore (dramatic play
area, math manipulatives, math investigations games, fine muscle activity,
book corner, etc.)
11:00 – 11:10 Pack up folders and school bags. Follow-up questions,
feedback, and a look ahead to tomorrow. Recess or song, if time permits.
