Mrs. Patton’s Daily Plans

Week of December 14, 2009
Tuesday/Thursday week

 

Monday, December 14, 2009

9:00-9:25

Morning Procedures

Obj:   to become familiar with morning procedures, to follow written and verbal directions, to appropriately socialize with students in the group, to use time effectively to complete tasks/assignments

 

Please complete the following:

ü  Make your lunch choice, unpack, and hang up your backpack.

ü  Turn in any/all of the following: Friday Folders, notes from home, forms or permission slips, your planner, and any homework that is due.

ü  Check to see if your partner is here.  If not, set up an absent folder.

ü  Complete your Calendar Math sheets for Sunday and Monday.  Remember, a student will be randomly chosen to present Calendar Math for today.

ü  Complete your classroom job, work on assignments, or enjoy some S.T.A.R. time.

ü  Please join me in front by 9:25.  Please bring a pencil, your clipboard, and your Calendar Math pages. 

9:25-10:15
Math

·         New Calendar Math packet

·         Finish Study Island assignments (both online and on paper)

10:20-11:20
Specials

ART

11:25-12:15
Comm. Arts

To the Library for research…

 

12:20-12:55
Recess and lunch

ENJOY!

1:05-1:40
Comm. Arts

Writer’s workshop

1:45-2:00

Recess (I’m inside.  It’s Mastery Club Day!)

2:05-2:30
Comm. Arts

Comm. Arts activities continued…

 

S.T.A.R. time + BLUE reading log (a new one!)

2:30-3:00

MUSIC

3:00-3:40
Comm. Arts

ü  Fill out planners.  Highlight any homework.

ü  Classroom jobs/S.T.A.R. – take care of your daily duties at this time.  Students who are on vacation should read quietly.

ü  Pack up by teams (dismissed by Mrs. Patton).

ü  Leave backpacks at your seat and meet me up front (around 3:20).

ü  Read aloud time  J

ü  Listen to announcements

3:45

Dismissal to buses

Homework Info

1.     Have your parent sign your planner.

2.    Spelling Contract work– Due tomorrow

Reminders and additional information

 

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

9:00-9:25

Morning Procedures

Obj:   to become familiar with morning procedures, to follow written and verbal directions, to appropriately socialize with students in the group, to use time effectively to complete tasks/assignments

 

Please complete the following:
1.  Make your lunch choice, unpack, and hang up your backpack.
2.  Turn in your Friday Folder, notes from home, forms or permission slips,
Weekly Reports, your planner and any homework that is due.

3.  Check to see if your partner is here.  If not, set up an absent folder.

4. Work on your Calendar Math packet for Saturday through today.

5.  Complete your classroom job, work on assignments, or enjoy some S.T.A.R. time.

6.  Please join me in front at 9:25.  Please bring a pencil, your clipboard, and your Calendar Math pages. 

9:25-10:30
Math

1)     Calendar Math

2)    Online practice: BBC Skillwise – Factors and multiplies
Complete this online activity with your partner.  You can choose your level!

3)   Independent practice: Factor worksheet + multiple worksheet – turn in when finished.

10:30

Restroom break, transition time

10:40-11:20
Soc. St.

Read Lesson 2 together in class, pages 60-65.

 

With your partner, complete the two online activities below.  Report your scores to your teacher when finished with each activity.

 

1.     Unit 2 Lesson 2 vocab quiz

2.     Unit 2 Lesson 2 online quiz

 

NOTE:  If the links above do not work, click here.  Then, click on Games, then the link for Unit 2 Lesson 2.  After that, click on Quiz.  Click on the link for Unit 2 Lesson 2.

11:20-12:15
Comm. Arts

Writer’s Workshop:

·         Work on revising, editing, and publishing

·         Sharing time around 12:00

12:20-12:55
Recess and lunch

ENJOY!

1:05-1:40
Spelling

Unit 9 Spelling test

1:45-2:00

Recess

2:05-2:30
Comm. Arts

When students return to the classroom, they need to grab their Book Baskets and begin S.T.A.R. time.  Reading logs (Tuesday entry) should be filled out as part of S.T.A.R. time.

2:30-3:00

P.E.

3:00-3:40
Comm. Arts

ü  Fill out planners.  Highlight any homework.

ü  Classroom jobs/S.T.A.R. – take care of your daily duties at this time.  Students who are on vacation should read quietly.

ü  Pack up by teams (dismissed by Mrs. Patton).

ü  Leave backpacks at your seat and meet me up front (around 3:20).

ü  Read aloud time

ü  Listen to announcements

3:45

Dismissal to buses

Homework Info

1.     Have a parent sign your planner.

Reminders and additional information

 

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

9:00-9:25

Morning Procedures

Obj:   to become familiar with morning procedures, to follow written and verbal directions, to appropriately socialize with students in the group, to use time effectively to complete tasks/assignments

 

Please complete the following:
1.  Make your lunch choice, unpack, and hang up your backpack.
2. Turn in notes from home, forms or permission slips, your planner and any homework or LATE WORK that is due.

3.  Check to see if your partner is here.  If not, set up an absent folder.

4.  Complete your Calendar Math sheets for today.  Remember, a student will be randomly chosen to present Calendar Math for today.

5.  Complete your classroom job, work on assignments, or enjoy some S.T.A.R. time.

6.  Meet me up front at 9:30 to discuss Calendar Math.  Bring your packet, pencil, and clipboard.

9:30-10:30
Math

·         Calendar Math

·         More measurement!!!

10:30

Restroom break, transition time

10:45-11:15
Comm. Arts

 

Click HERE to go directly to the Spelling Page.

Writer’s Workshop

No mini-lessons, just writing time and conferences.

 

 

 

Unit 10 Spelling pretest

ü  Take the pretest online. 

ü  Print results, highlight words that are correct.

ü  Choose new words.

ü  Turn in list to Mrs. Patton

ü  New Spelling Contracts – Due Tuesday

REMEMBER: The directions are also in your B.E.E. binder on the orange card.

No reader’s workshop today. Students will continue to Talk Back To Books using sticky notes and their tracker sheet.

 

Reading Logs (blue) and S.T.A.R. self-checklists are due Friday.

SCIENCE and so much more!
11:20-12:15

Back to the library for some research time…We’ll review:

·         Keeping track of your sources

·         How to take notes

·         Turning your topic into a testable question

12:20-12:55
Recess and lunch

ENJOY!

1:05-1:40
Science

Continue with Virtual Lab project

1:45-2:00

Recess

2:05-2:30
Comm. Arts

Upon entering the classroom, grab your Book Baskets and begin S.T.A.R. time.  Reading logs (Wednesday entry) should be filled out as part of S.T.A.R. time.

2:30-3:00

MUSIC

3:00-3:40
Comm. Arts

ü  Fill out planners.  Highlight any homework.

ü  Classroom jobs/S.T.A.R. – take care of your daily duties at this time.  Students who are on vacation should read quietly.

ü  Pack up by teams (dismissed by Mrs. Patton).

ü  Leave backpacks at your seat and meet me up front (around 3:20).

ü  Read aloud time  J

ü  Listen to announcements

3:45

Dismissal to the buses

Homework Info

1.   Have a parent sign your planner.

Reminders and additional information

S.T.A.R. – Stop, Take a book And Read – This is reading time that students participate in DURING our reading instruction time.  Students should be working on a reading skill while reading, “talking back to books,” and reflecting on their own progress as a reader.  Students should read a Just Right book at this time.

 

R.F.E. time – Reading For Enjoyment – This is reading time that students participate in at the beginning or end of the day, or when all assignments are finished.  Students can read an Easy, Just Right, or Challenging book.

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

9:00-9:20

Morning Procedures

Obj:   to become familiar with morning procedures, to follow written and verbal directions, to appropriately socialize with students in the group, to use time effectively to complete tasks/assignments

 

Please complete the following:
1.  Make your lunch choice, unpack, and hang up your backpack.
2. Turn in notes from home, forms or permission slips, your planner and any homework or LATE WORK that is due.

3.  Check to see if your partner is here.  If not, set up an absent folder.

4.  Complete your Calendar Math sheets for today.  Remember, a student will be randomly chosen to present Calendar Math for today.

5.  Complete your classroom job, work on assignments, or enjoy some S.T.A.R. time.

9:20-9:50
Specials

LIBRARY

The times and activities scheduled below will take place around the “start time” listed in the left-hand column.  After each lesson or class activity, you will then have time to work on a variety of assignments.  Think of it like a menu: You have several items to choose from and your goal is to have everything on the menu.  J  To help you, you’ll receive a sheet to record what you work on.  Remember?  We talked about being accountable. 
This sheet will help with that. 

 

Have fun!  Learn lots!
Use your time wisely.

 

Here’s what you can work on:

Ø  The math assignment listed below

Ø  Your narrative writing project (writing = 30 min./day)

Ø  “Back-up” work – We’ll talk about this today.

Ø  Science research for your science project

Ø  S.T.A.R. time (30 min./day) and “talking back to your book”

Ø  The Science Pretest in Study Island, listed on the Class Page.

 

9:56-10:30
Math

·         Calendar Math

·         Grade p. 535

·         Assignment: Practice page 9-3 – Complete on your own and turn in.

10:40

Restroom break, transition time

10:50-11:20
Soc. St.

The Tic Tac Toe grid –

·         Choose 3 assignments and color in the box lightly. 

·         I will meet with students in groups based on which box you chose. 

·         We will discuss expectations and requirements for the assignments you have chosen.

11:20-12:15
Comm. Arts

Reading Workshop

Interactive read aloud: Mrs. Patton will read aloud a story.  During this time, you will record what you are thinking on a sticky note.  Your sticky notes will be stuck on the tracker sheet and turned in.

 

Reading Logs (blue) are due Friday.  You are responsible for completing each section daily.

 

Writer’s Workshop

! Independent writing time (IWT) and conferences – Narrative writing project

! Writing Celebration is MONDAY!!!  J J J

 

12:20-12:55
Recess and lunch

ENJOY!

1:05-1:40
Soc. St.

Continue with the Virtual Lab – Time to grow those tomatoes.

1:45-2:00

Recess

2:05-2:30

You choose: Math, Writing, Science, or Reading assignments

2:30-3:00

P.E.

3:00-3:40

ü   Fill out planners.  Highlight any homework.

ü  Classroom jobs/S.T.A.R. – take care of your daily duties at this time.  Students who are on vacation should read quietly.

ü  Pack up by teams (dismissed by Mrs. Patton).

ü  Leave backpacks at your seat and meet me up front (around 3:20).

ü  Read aloud time  J

ü  Listen to announcements

3:45

Dismissal to the buses

Homework Info

1.     Science project: Develop your question.  Start thinking about what materials you will need to conduct your experiment.

2.     Math assignment – if not finished

Reminders and additional information

·         S.T.A.R. – Stop, Take a book And Read – This is reading time that students participate in DURING our reading instruction time.  Students should be working on a reading skill while reading, “talking back to books,” and reflecting on their own progress as a reader.  Students should read a Just Right book at this time.

 

·         R.F.E. time – Reading For Enjoyment – This is reading time that students participate in at the beginning or end of the day, or when all assignments are finished.  Students can read an Easy, Just Right, or Challenging book.

 

·         Science Fair Project topics were due today.

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Friday, December 18, 2009

9:00-9:30

Morning Procedures

Obj:   to become familiar with morning procedures, to follow written and verbal directions, to appropriately socialize with students in the group, to use time effectively to complete tasks/assignments

 

Please complete the following tasks:
1.  Make your lunch choice, unpack, and hang up your backpack.
2.  Turn in notes from home, forms or permission slips, your planner and any homework that is due.

3.  Check to see if your partner is here.  If not, set up an absent folder.

4.  Complete your Calendar Math sheet for today and Saturday.  Packets are due upon completion.  J.E.T. students are responsible for completing your Calendar Math before leaving at 9:15.

5.  Complete your classroom job, work on assignments, or enjoy some R.F.E. time.

9:30-10:30
Math

·         Calendar Math – Finish and turn in the entire packet.

10:30

Restroom break, transition time

10:45-12:15
Comm. Arts

Writer’s Workshop:

·        

Reader’s workshop:

·         Read the issue today.  One article can be read with a partner (knee-to-knee).

·         Complete the packet that goes along with the issue.  Be sure to turn this in before 2:30 (unless told otherwise).

12:20-12:55
Recess and lunch

ENJOY!

1:05-1:40
Soc. St.

Current Events: Weekly Reader àContinue working on this until recess.

·         Be sure to turn in the packet, NOT THE ACTUAL WEEKLY READER. 

·         Please make a stack of the WR on the table. 

 

FINISHED?  Choose from the following based on what you need to do:

·         S.T.A.R. time – When finished, turn in your S.T.A.R. self-checklist and your Reading Log (blue).

1:45-2:00

Recess

2:05-2:30

ü  Fill out planners.  Highlight any homework.

ü  Classroom jobs/R.F.E. – take care of your daily duties at this time.  Students who are on vacation should read quietly.

2:30-3:00

P.E.

3:00-3:30

Class buddies with Mrs. Patchin’s class

3:30-3:45

ü  Pack up by teams (dismissed by Mrs. Patton).

ü  Listen to announcements – Make sure all of us can hear.

3:45

Dismissal to the buses.

Homework info

1.       Have a parent sign your planner.

2.      Continue planning your science project.  Your question and materials list are due Monday. 

Reminders and additional information

 

I’m finished! Now what can I do??

Read

You can read an “easy”, “just right” or “challenging” book, or a magazine.

Write

You can add an entry to your writing “seed” notebook, reread entries, or start a draft from your “seed” notebook.  You could also write a friendly letter and mail it for WEE Deliver.

Learn

You can learn more and more by becoming a member of the Dardenne Mastery Club.  Click here to begin.

Extend

You can go above and beyond by studying a topic of interest and extend your learning experience.  Check out the sites provided below.  Take notes, teach a friend, create a presentation or poster.  Happy learning!

 

Birds of prey:

Dialogue for Kids

Explore Birds of Prey

Raptor Rescue

 

All about Missouri:

Caves and Bats

The 50 States: Missouri

Fact Monster: Geography of MO

Practice

You can practice your math facts!  Remember, that during the week, you should practice for the timed test on Fridays.  Just go to the Math Page or click on the link.

Spell

This is for all of you Word Smart kids!  Go to the link below.  Once on the site, choose one of the games to play.

 Word Central Games:

v Alpha-bot

v Robo-Bee

v BIGbot

v Jumble Kids

 

 

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