Kindergarten Schedule
2009-2010
7:45 Morning Responsibilities:
-Students turn in folders, notes, homework, & lunch order
7:50 Morning Announcements
8:00-8:30 Morning Warm-up and Math Concepts:
-Handwriting Without Tears (Letter Formation, Size, Spacing)
-Calendar (Counting, Place Value, Time, Money)
-Morning Message (Concepts of Print, Letter/Sound Knowledge, Beginning Editing, Word Solving)
-Poetry (Concepts of Print, Letter/Sound Knowledge, Rhyming, Content Reinforcement)
-Word Study (How Words Look, Word Chunks, Word Families, Sight Words, Building Words)
8:30-9:30 Reading Workshop
Activities Working With Letters and Words:
-Phonological Awareness (Rhyming, Syllables, Phoneme Isolation, Sound Blending & Segmentation)
-Alphabetic Knowledge (Letter Recognition, Alphabetical Order, Letter/Sound Correspondence)
-Word Study (How Words Look, Word Chunks, Word Families, Sight Words, Building Words)
-Shared and Guided Reading/Literature Groups
-Independent Reading (Students read from book boxes and class library)
-Read To (Mini-lessons in Reading Process and Strategies, Writing Craft, & Book Knowledge)
9:30-9:35 Restroom Break
9:35-10:25 Specials
10:35-11:15 Lunch (lunch times are staggered)
11:15-11:45 Writing Workshop:
-Write To (Mini-lessons of Writing Strategies and Skills)
-Writing Process (Planning, Drafting, Revising, Conferencing, Editing, Publishing)
11:45-12:30 Math Activities / Differentiation Groups:
-Mini-lessons on concepts, skills, and strategies
-Use of manipulatives and problem-solving strategies to investigate mathematical concepts
12:30-1:00 Recess / Restroom Break
1:00-1:20 Rest time / Intervention / Extension:
-Teacher finishes reading groups, assesses, and works with individual students
1:20-1:30 Snack / Read Aloud
1:30-2:15 Integrated Content: Science and Social Studies
-Investigation of themes using Interdisciplinary Instruction Models, Depth and Complexity,
Literature, & hands-on student activities
2:15-2:30 Free Choice Centers / Intervention / Extension:
-Home Living, Art, Writing, Blocks, Loft, Manipulatives, Library, Math, Science
-Small Group Activities
2:30 Clean-up
2:40 Dismissal