• Pledge of Allegiance and Campus Announcements/Routines
  
• Attendance
  
• Calendar Math
  
• Weather Report
  
• Model/Shared Writing and Reading: Writing the morning message - Children dictate a sentence; the teacher writes it; they read it back. Class members look for letters they have been discussing and circle them. Then they generate a list of words beginning with those letters.
  
• Phonological Awareness Activity
  
• Read Aloud - Listening Comprehension

8:00 - 9:30 Classroom Workstations - Literacy Development
Students work independently, with a partner, and/or in small groups to complete literacy activities arranged in workstations throughout the room.

• Individual students work at designated stations based on the organizational system the teacher has created, e.g. Guided Reading by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas
• The workstations could include journal writing, WiggleWorks at the computer, listening center, independent reading activities (read the room, charts, word walls, big books, leveled book boxes, pocket charts), handwriting center, alphabet activities, and oral language opportunities (retelling stories, dramatizing) and math activities
• These planned activities are modeled and expectations for student learning and behavior are set.
  

Teacher works with individual students and small groups to provide instruction, guidance, and support through:

• Shared reading and writing lessons with small groups
• Guided reading and writing lessons led by teachers
• Individual Conferences (reading, writing)
• Individual Assessments
• Mini-lessons on targeted skills
• Oral language and vocabulary building activities

9:30 - 10:15 Integrated Curriculum - Science, Social Studies, Health

The whole class begins with the teacher instructing Integrated Curriculum. Students break into multitasking activities involving science, social studies, and health. Computer lessons are incorporated.

10:15 - 10:30 Shared Reading - Concepts about Print

10:30 - 11:30 Lunch
Outdoor Play - Gross Motor Skill Development (TEKS)

11:30 - 12:00 Read Aloud and Independent Reading - Quiet Time
Transition to Writer's Workshop by November

12:00 - 12:45 Specialized Instruction - Physical Education, Music,
Art, Counselor

12:45 - 1:45 Mathematics

The whole class begins with the teacher instructing. Students break into multitasking activities involving number, operation, quantitative reasoning, patterns, relationship, algebraic thinking, geometry/spatial reasoning, measurement, probability & statistics, and problem solving.

1:45 - 2:30 Learning Centers

Students will be working independently and in small groups at designated learning centers. These centers could include:

• Art (painting, play dough, clay)
• Science (observation table, living animals and plants, investigative activities, Integrated Curriculum follow up activity)
• Construction (blocks, Lincoln Logs, Legos, puzzles)
• Dramatic Play (restaurant, puppet theater, homemaking center)
• Reading
• Writing
• Math
• Fine Motor (puzzles, beads for stringing, scissors, peg board)
• Social Studies
• Music
• Sand and/or Water
  

The teacher's primary responsibility is to interact with students in the centers to develop oral language and build vocabulary.

The teacher might work with individual students and small groups to provide instruction, guidance, and support through:

• Shared reading and writing lessons with small groups
• Guided reading and writing lessons led by teachers
• Individual Conferences (reading, writing)
• Individual Assessments
• Mini-lessons on targeted skills
• Hands-on math activities

2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Sharing Time

Students are given an opportunity to develop oral language. Several students share personal experiences through Show and Tell to develop explaining and describing skills and Sharing Time to develop personal narratives. Other students practice active listening skills. The activities of the day and student learning are reviewed.