Thursday's Agenda

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Agenda Thursday
May 21, 2009

9:00 – 9:20 – Breakfast, order lunch, and take attendance. Students should come in unpack and begin working on their morning work while eating their breakfast.

9:20 – 9:30 – Mrs. Curtis will go over the calendar with students. While Mrs. Del Balzo finishes M-class testing.

9:30 – 10: 15 Guided Reading 3 (15 minute rotations)
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Go over word wall words using the magnetic letters. Students will review the BCR question for the week and begin discussion how they would answer their questions.
How did the point of view of the character affect the story? Ms. Warno time or independent reading from their book boxes Carpet time with Ms. Repass or study spelling words on a white board
Carpet Time with Ms. Repass or study spelling words on a white board. Go over word wall words using the magnetic letters. Students will review the BCR question for the week and begin discussion how they would answer their questions.
How does the setting affect the story? Ms. Warno time or independently read from her book box.
Ms. Warno Time or independent reading Carpet time with Ms. Repass or study spelling words on a white board. Go over word wall words using the magnetic letters. Students will review the BCR question for the week and begin discussion how they would answer their questions.
We will put combinations of words together to make compound words.

10:15 – 11:10 Whole Group Reading and Writing Time –

We will review the stories students have gone over the last few days and review the elements of a story. Students will then review a Scholastic News magazine on butterflies and complete a text feature sheet on what they learned. After reading the article students will take their knowledge of butterflies to create their own class story of: How The Butterfly Got Its Wings.

11:10 – 11:50 – PE remember to wear your good shoes

11:50 – 12:50 – Lunch and Recess

12:50 – 1:10 – Students will come in and write down their homework for the evening. Students will meet in small groups to review their language sentences fixing spelling and grammatical errors.

1:10 –Switch for math


1:10 – 1:30 – Students should complete the beginning work for Tuesday and write down their homework.

1:30 – 2:15 Guided Reading – While students are not meeting with Mrs. Del Balzo they should be working at their two other stations language and finish work/independent reading. All students will bring their books in a ziplock bag from home. Mrs. Del Balzo will be finishing up m-class assessments with students.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3

Go over word wall word words and we will complete a text feature analysis on the scholastic news article on butterflies. Finish work or independent reading or writing in writing journals. Language – compound words
Language – compound words Go over word wall word words and we will complete a text feature analysis on the scholastic news article on butterflies. Finish work or independent reading or writing in writing journals.
Finish work or independent reading or writing in writing journals. Language – compound words Go over word wall word words and we will complete a text feature analysis on the scholastic news article on butterflies.

2:15 – 2:40 – Whole Group Reading – we will review the stories students have read the last two days and create our own story about how the butterfly got its wings.

2:40 – 3:10 – Writing
We will share our why tales students wrote while Mrs. Del Balzo was away. Students will draft their stories using their graphic organizers.

3:10 – Switch back for dismissal. Please make sure the morning class has their zip-locks, spelling journals and folders when they go home.