Weekly Schedule Outline
In order to increase transparency, I'm showing you a weekly outline I'll use to plan lessons. The details will be posted daily on the Learning at Home page. I didn't show times, because I know that many of you don't have the luxury of starting lessons every day at 8:10 like we do at school. Some of you are driving every day to pick up meals at the school grab and go sites, while others are trying to arrive at the grocery store early before all the food is gone. Most of you are probably working from home and have heavy professional loads. For those of you who want details about your child's education, here is what to expect. If this page just stresses you out, then don't read it! Remember that your child isn't expected to do every lesson I assign. Just do what you can!
The language arts lessons will come from our Benchmark Reading series found on the Clever app. I'm including strategies from the popular teaching book The Daily 5. According to this book, students should engage in five reading practices every day
The language arts lessons will come from our Benchmark Reading series found on the Clever app. I'm including strategies from the popular teaching book The Daily 5. According to this book, students should engage in five reading practices every day
- Read to Self
- Listen to Reading
- Read to Someone
- Work on Writing
- Word Work
Monday
Class Meeting
We'll meet on SKIES or some other platform to check in with each other and do some social/emotional learning.
Math
Every Monday is Defend day, which is mandated by the district. On Defend day, we don't have a new lesson. Instead, students use this opportunity to review and catch up to their classmates, or to try some challenging independent math. On Mondays I'll ask students to work on iReady or Zearn. I suggest 20 minutes of each.
Language Arts
Listen to Reading Students should also do this every day. They should listen to someone reading a book they enjoy. This does not have to be a book at their level. They can listen to reading on Epic, or on Kids A-Z, or they can listen to a family member.
Read to Someone This is also something students should do every day. Students read a book they enjoy to a family member or to someone at home.
Art
Tuesday
Math
SKIES Eureka Math Assignment
Language Arts
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
Science
Wednesday
Math
CGI lesson in SKIES
Language Arts
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
Social Studies
Thursday
Math
SKIES Eureka Math Assignment
Language Arts
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
Science
Friday
Math
Counting Collections with SKIES If doing a counting collection at home presents challenges for you, then you can do iReady or Zearn instead. If I hear from many parents that counting collections don't work at home, then I'll assign CGI lessons on Fridays.
Language Arts
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
PE
Class Meeting
We'll meet on SKIES or some other platform to check in with each other and do some social/emotional learning.
Math
Every Monday is Defend day, which is mandated by the district. On Defend day, we don't have a new lesson. Instead, students use this opportunity to review and catch up to their classmates, or to try some challenging independent math. On Mondays I'll ask students to work on iReady or Zearn. I suggest 20 minutes of each.
Language Arts
- On Mondays we introduce new sound spellings, sight words, and spelling words from our Benchmark program.
- Reading Lesson from our Shared Readings book.
- Writing follow up from Shared Readings.
Listen to Reading Students should also do this every day. They should listen to someone reading a book they enjoy. This does not have to be a book at their level. They can listen to reading on Epic, or on Kids A-Z, or they can listen to a family member.
Read to Someone This is also something students should do every day. Students read a book they enjoy to a family member or to someone at home.
Art
Tuesday
Math
SKIES Eureka Math Assignment
Language Arts
- Reading lesson from theme unit big book
- Writing follow up
- Write five sentences with five of the spelling words. These sentences should be able to say when, where, why or how something happens. For example, instead of writing "I see a cat." a student could write "A cat was on the table because it wanted to get some food."
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
Science
Wednesday
Math
CGI lesson in SKIES
Language Arts
- Read decodable book to practice new sound spellings
- Annotate book
- Do writing and drawing follow up page
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
Social Studies
Thursday
Math
SKIES Eureka Math Assignment
Language Arts
- Reading lesson from theme unit book or from Shared Readings book
- Writing follow up
- Write five sentences with the other five spelling words. See guidelines above.
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
Science
Friday
Math
Counting Collections with SKIES If doing a counting collection at home presents challenges for you, then you can do iReady or Zearn instead. If I hear from many parents that counting collections don't work at home, then I'll assign CGI lessons on Fridays.
Language Arts
- Reading lesson where we compare and contrast two stories we've read this week, or independent reading with a book report.
- Writing follow up.
- Optional spelling test
Listen to Reading
Read to Someone
PE