OUR SCHEDULE

Morning Meetings give us a chance to build our community. Meetings will consist of greeting one another, sharing news with each other, and a fun activity to get our day started as a group of learners. 

Closing Circle closes out our day by adding in a piece of community reflection that focuses on our learning, growth, and behavior. This is a time to reflect on what is going well, what we can do better, and goals for the following day/week.

Interactive read-aloud is a whole-group instructional context where students will think about, talk about, and respond to text that has been purposefully selected by the teacher. Both readers and listeners actively process the language, ideas, and meaning of the text together.

During Reading Workshop, students will work independently on a check list of activities while I call small Guided Reading groups to meet with me. Students will build stamina during independent reading time, work on reading responses, i-Ready reading lessons, word work, and a variety of other options, including possible enrichment opportunities and project-based learning linked to peer interactions.

During Writing Workshop, students will complete a variety of writing pieces including opinion, informative, and narrative writing styles. Your child will learn strategies for writing, how to use graphic organizers to plan out their pieces, the writing process, and meet with a teacher to support editing/conferencing about their writing throughout the year.  There will be opportunities for publishing writing and hosting celebrations of our work as a class community.

Science and Social Studies units will rotate every 2-4 weeks, meaning we will complete an entire unit of study within science before moving on to social studies. Assessments will take place at the end of each unit and prior notice will be given. I fully believe in hands-on investigations and will be eager to bring these units of study to life in our classroom.

During math, students will complete one Envision lesson every day, which include whole class and independent practice. These lessons will be supplemented and supported with enrichment activities/projects, including technology and small group teacher support. Students will work on mastering their multiplication facts this year.

The Developmental Spelling Assessment (DSA) is used to determine your child’s developmental spelling stage. Using the assessment data, students will have individual spelling lists, based upon their particular needs, which will come home weekly. 

Students will be learning to write in cursive this year!

Your child will also be learning keyboarding skills. We will have the use of chromebooks daily.