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.