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7:15-7:40: Arrival, Reading, and Eating Breakfast. Mrs. Senger checks in with each student and goes over any words he or she did not know from the prior night's reading. Students have free time here! During this time students can build friendships with each other. The students may use legos, magnet blocks, make bracelets, color, or just talk.
7:40-7:50: Morning Meeting and Vocabulary: Students all check in briefly with each other, share one thing in a popcorn style, and learn a new fun fact. We then quickly transition to vocabulary where students build word attack skills as we attack an advanced word, and then vocabulary attack skills as we work together to determine it's definition. Students finish up this lesson by writing their own sentence using the new vocabulary word.
7:50-8:45: Phonics, Buddy Read. We work on phonics skills during this time. If you were to visit our classroom during this time you would see students color coding phonics passages, encoding words using tapping, breaking words into syllables, learning characteristics of sounds, singing trick word songs and more. Each day we finish this lesson with a student favorite - Buddy Read. It gives the students an opportunity to partner with a friend of a similar reading style and read aloud.
9:00-10:00 English Language Arts. Here we will use our Wit and Wisdom curriculum, as well as lessons compiled by the second grade teachers who have been at Masonboro for years, to teach the North Carolina ELA Reading Literature/Informational Text and Writing Standards. If you visited our classroom during this time, you'd see the students crafting paragraphs, discussing complex texts, creating thinking maps, and more.
11:15-11:45: Start Math Somedays we start with Eureka Fluency Drills, and other days we start with our math games to improve our fact fluency. After we complete those activities we transition into the day's lesson, guided practice, and ultimately independent work.
10:30-11:15: Specials
Monday - Library
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - WIN
Thursday - Art
Friday - PE (Please wear sneakers)
11:15-11:45: Finish Math
11:45-12:15: Recess
12:25-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45: Enrich and Reteach & Geodes. Small Group Enrich and Reteach.
1:45-2:25: Science and Social Studies.
2:35: Dismissal