Friday, September 12, 2014

Fun Friday (And Writing)

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity
9:15AM BLOCK 1  
Writing Prompt/Type
PE Break?

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Illustrating; Doodle activity
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3   Fun Friday!!! 




http://www.lifeofzarf.com/ or BLOCK 1

Prompt Starter Choices....

Write and/or type


What's the most interesting dream you've had?  

My most __________________  dream I had was about..............


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What if you ran the world?  What rules would you change?  What would you want the world to look like? 
If I were in charge of the world I would..............





BLOCK 2

Art & Brain Exercise:

We are going to activate the left and right side of the brain by creating patterns (right) and drawing abstract lines, while also listening to light music.  This will be a fun exercise of activating and working out both sides of the brain.


Thursday, September 11, 2014

Brains on brains

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Learning about learning, to make mistakes
PE Break?

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Writing (Adjectives)
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Early Dismissal!! 




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BLOCK 1



What's the message of the video?  Class discussion.


Read Aloud...


Brain Discussion



http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/ 


Class meeting



BLOCK 2  Centers

Writing Task!!!  Journals :-)

  •  Edmodo signups
  • Prompt or brain  
  • Type group handwriting group

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Centers
PE Break?

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Writing (Adjectives)
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Word Art for our Writing & Read Aloud

1:45 LEVEL REWARDS!!




BLOCK 1 Math Centers
  • KHAN=A, JC, JA
  • PLACE VALUE BLOCKS=J, DK, M
  • SORTING=MM, C


BLOCK 2 Writing Adjectives


Adjectives=Descriptive word to improve our writing...
Then we will look at words to describe ourselves and push deeper into cool new words!!  This will turn into a writing task, which will later be illustrated.


Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Day 10

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity & Check-ins
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Continued (Value of Numbers)
PE Break?

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess
APE? BLOCK 2 Animal Odd Couples; learning about animals
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Literature

1:45 LEVEL REWARDS!!



Monday, September 1, 2014

Day 9

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Centers
PE Break?

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Read Aloud & Creative writing (tarantulas)
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Tarantula showing and Art Project

1:45 LEVEL REWARDS!!








9:15AM BLOCK 1  Math Centers

REVIEW:

Reviewing place value, arrow charts, & more
https://learnzillion.com/lessons/514-use-a-place-value-chart-and-arrow-cards-to-understand-large-numbers

Together, we will break up and do the guided practice.

NEXT DAY (Wednesday):
Students will continue learning "place value" in tiered groups.  
Group 1, Counting blocks and looking at tens & ones
Group 2, Sorting; Standard, Expanded, & Written Form 
Group 3, Place Value web game

 
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BLOCK 2 Writing TASK 

:::::Creative Project:::::
A TARANTUALA!!
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We will be writing about our "pet tarantulas"




                I have a pet tarantula.  His name is _______. He likes to __________.  One time me and my pet tarantula went on an adventure.  

Continue the story with your own adventure. 


 

Block 3

http://insects.about.com/od/spiders/a/10-facts-about-tarantulas.htm
Creative arts; making our pet tarantulas



Friday, August 29, 2014

Day 8

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Spelling/Vocab quiz
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning Math PLACE VALUE GAME
Sketching excercise?


10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 READ ALOUD/LITERATURE
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 FUN FRIDAY