We have had questions in the last few weeks about homework,
and what the students actually miss when they are away from school, so we
thought we would give an outline of what our typical day is like...
Morning Routine
(morning message, counting practice, calendar skills, holidays/celebrations/season questions, days of the week, months of the year)
Viewing Practice
(creating connections, inferences, asking questions)
Daily 5 (Reading
to Self, Writing Practice, Word Work Practice and Guided Reading)
Snack (food group
sorting, mini-lesson on effects
of nutritional values in given foods)
Star of the Week
(Listening skills (listening for details to retell), Writing skills, printing
practice, capitalization and punctuation practice, representing with pictures)
Math (Gr. 1-Teen numbers, counting practice forward/backward, writing
numbers 0-20, building numbers with Base 10 blocks, building numbers with 10
frames, reading number words.
Gr. 2-Place value, addition)
Focus Groups
(individualized work on letters and letter sounds, sight words and sentence
writing)
Writer's Workshop
(writing from a picture prompt)
Lunch
Reading Stamina
practice (10 minutes of silent reading)
Daily 5 (Reading
to Self, Writing Practice, Word Work Practice and Guided Reading)
Novel Reading
(listening to Reading, visualization strategies, vocabulary discussion, focus
on characters, setting, and problem so far in the novel)
Social (Discussion
on our Christmas celebrations, compare/contrast with classmate's celebrations)
Art (lesson on
primary colors, painting activity)
This is an outline
of what is in the day planner for tomorrow.
Not one of the
outlined activities has a paper version that we can send home as homework. Please know that when your child is absent from
school, that even though they may not have "homework" that can be
sent home, there is indeed a great amount of learning and discussion taking
place when they are absent
