I’ve decided to try a new layout this next school year for my lesson plans. I’m not entirely sure I like it and may go back to the old way, but I thought I would share it in the event that some of you might like to use it! I wanted something with bigger boxes [...]
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I’ve updated my Lesson Plan Grid for this year: lessonplangrid2010-2011 It prints out on two pages, one for my morning and one for the afternoon portion of the day. Let me know if you find it useful! Kristen
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Last week (yes, I’m a little behind) we read Jack and the Beanstalk, which ties in nicely to my seeds and planting theme. We began by reading Jack and the Beanstalk (the version by Little Golden Books). When we finished reading the story, we noticed that there was a large note hanging on our Morning [...]
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We are reading a big book this week titled “Seeds”. Because there are a few students who will be leaving early this week to head out on Spring Break, we did not do a Predictable Chart, however we did do several neat Inquiry Based things in Science. I like to begin almost all my themes/units [...]
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Have you ever had one of those crazy weeks where the gods seem to be working against you? Yeah–that’s been my week so far and it’s only WEDNESDAY!!! My poor assistant Pam is out with strep–GET WELL SOON PAM!! and has been out all week so far. You don’t realize how much you depend upon [...]
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I posted the pictures that go along with this story under the Lang. tab. (it is the 2nd up from the bottom) I use these pictures over several days to help the children work with oral sequencing skills. I also write the names of the items on sentence strips. On Day 2 of this book, [...]
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Here are what’s done already of my plans for January. You will see that I still have a few big holes to fill in. Sometimes I get the most important things out of my brain first and then mull over the missing parts. The DNC BK. 2 that you will see referes to Developing Number [...]
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Last week, we wrapped up our GBM theme with letters from 2 more countries. Germany and The North Pole. I started off the week knowing where we wanted to end up, so I decided that our theme would be Polar Animals. We read a Big Book: and this got us started. We then made a [...]
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Kristen Poindexter
