My Day in Mrs. Burke’s Kindergarten Class:

 

7:25-7:55         Arrival

• students eat breakfast
• turn in homework
• complete morning work (activity page that reviews a concept already learned)

 

7:55-8:00         Morning Announcements

• flag salute
• attendance
• finish morning work
• quiet reading

 

8:00-8:15   Calendar

• review days of the week / months of the year
• patterns
• counting numbers to 100
• place value
• counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• weather
• sentence structure
• money / coin recognition
• odd / even number

 

8:15-8:30    Phonograms and Sight Word Practice

• learn and practice letters and their sounds
• learn and practice sight words

 

8:30-8:9:00   Literacy Instruction

• Phonemic Awareness
  • recognize rhyme structure
  • segment words into syllables and sounds
  • blend word parts together to make words
  • review of phonograms and sight words
• Read Aloud / discussion and comprehension questions
  • language skills
  • story recall
  • concepts of print
  • listening skills/make predictions
  • story elements

 

 9:00 - 10:30

 

                        Centers

• Differentiated Basket Centers (5 baskets based on skills learned throughout the week that rotate)
• Teacher (Reading Street Small Group Instruction)
• Listening/Writing  (following directions with phonemic awareness & journal topic of the day)
• Computer (phonetic reading/comprehension)

 

9:30-10:15  Intervention Time

Countdown Reading (phonics, blending, beginning sounds, CVC words, syllables etc.)

Michael Haggarty phonemic awareness

 

10:35 - 11:00   Science/S.S./Writing

Informational Texts

Plant and Animal Life

Healthy Eating Habits

5 Senses

Gravity/Sound/Movement

 

11:05 - 11:50 Specials

• Day 1 (PE)
• Day 2 (Art)
• Day 3 (PE)
• Day 4 (Music)
• Day 5 (PE)
• Day 6 (Tech)

 

11:55 - 12:10 Start Math

 

12:16 - 12:41 Lunch (Tables 11.12.13.&14)

 

12:47 - 1:07 Recess 

 

1:10-2:05     Finish Math and Centers

• sorting
• classifying
• graphing
• patterns
• problem solving
• colors
• numbers through 100
• addition / subtraction with numbers to 10
• measurement
• estimation
• shapes and their attributes

 

2:10   Dismissal

 

Thank you so much for joining me at Open House!

If you have any questions/concerns, please feel free to contact me at school. 

Thank you!!  Mrs. Burke