Approximate AM Time Approximate PM Time Posted Schedule for Students Focus of this portion of our day 8:30-8:45 11:30 –11:35 Table Time Sign in/arrival/working with manipulatives/sharing with friends 8:45-8:55 12:40-12:50 Opening Kindness Pledge/Review Schedule/Chant ABC's and Letter Poem Phonemic Awareness upper and lower case letter recognition associating letters to beginning sounds alphabetical order left to right progression identifying pictures/words that start with the same sound hearing/recognizing rhyme 8:55-9:20 12:55-1:15 Writing Notebooks Daily teacher modeling Student writing Author chair (am only once introduced, due to time)) daily review of letters and sounds in the context of personal/meaningful writing 'stretching' words out and hearing the sounds/connecting with letters 9:20-9:25 1:15-1:20 Restrooms   9:25-9:55 1:20-1:50 Read/Write/Sing Shared Reading  (with traditional stories, predictable big books, & manipulative charts/poems) modeling of left to right and word by word matching building prediction, inference skills enjoyment and participation in reading with a high level of support building a sense of story expanding vocabulary finding letters and sounds in context Interactive Writing opportunities to hear sounds in words and connect with letters beginning to attend to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation) beginning summarizing skills (We often write about the shared reading story.) Acting Out/Retelling increasing oral language recalling sequence of the story reviewing story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end) 9:55-10:30 1:50-2:20 Small Groups (two rotating small groups) Letter Study Fine Motor daily review of letters improving of cutting and coloring skills and skills that will help develop eye/hand coordination such as puzzles, pattern blocks, playdough, etc. as used in a focused activity 10:30-10:55 2:20-2:40 ABC Centers (4 small groups given 2 center choices that they must do in order and is self paced) Literacy Centers to increase letter/sound knowledge, listening skills, oral language expression, rhyme, letter formation, cooperation, etc. 10:55-11:00 2:40-2:45 Singing movement listening words/pictures have meaning 11:00-11:30 2:45-3:05 1 of the following (Changes each day)       Listening/Story (2 days per week) Phonemic Awareness hearing/recognizing rhyme matching pictures/words that start with the same sound identifying whether a sound is heard at the beginning,  middle, or end of a word listening and clapping the number of syllables heard in a word Listening/Following Directions following 1-2 step directions without repetition needed recognizing the difference between a direction and a comment or question     Math (2 days per week) Math Tubs /Number Journals rote counting and 1 to 1 correspondence numeral recognition and writing concepts of numerals and sets     Review Game/Story (1 day per week) Reading Aloud (The stories often relate to the shared reading story so that students can compare versions of the same story, make connections between stories, and  build additional background knowledge.) reading for enjoyment     Name Activities (everyday for the first few weeks) learning each other's names letter formation left to right progression upper and lower  case recognition associating letters to beginning sounds differentiating letters from words 11:35-11:50 11:35-11:50 Recess   11:50-11:55 11:50-11:55 Restrooms   11:55-12:10 11:55-12:10 Lunch   12:10-12:30 12:10-12:30 Quiet Rest/Quiet Activities This is a quiet activity time that starts with students writing/drawing on small wipe off boards or purely resting and then (later in the semester) switches to a quiet activity time with 3-4 quiet activities that rotate throughout the week. (computers; book baskets/listening; coloring; dry erase boards). Quiet transition activities after recess and lunchtime to give students some rest time and to prepare them to focus again 12:30-12:40 12:30-12:40 Quiet Quacker's Club / Sharing / Literacy Kits rewarding good behavior oral expression/sharing 12:40-12:45 3:05-3:10 Prep. for Other Class/Home

Approximately one day each week, we complete a directed listening and art lesson that relates to our focus story or companion poems (instead of ABC Centers and Small Groups).