Cheryl Dick's Lesson Plans

Tuesday

March 17, 2015

Tutoring/RtI

8:00 am - 8:30
am

The RtI Group meets at the back table to work with the teacher to work on the weekly reading packet. Other students are welcome
to come into the classroom to work on Acuity practice, Google writing assignment, or multiplication practice.

Morning Meeting in FEMA Gym

8:30 am - 8:45
am

Meet students at FEMA gym at 8:35. Walk them back to class when morning meeting in the gym ends. Do lunch count. The students
make their lunch choices on the back table which needs to be entered into PowerSchool with attendance. See sub folder for log-in

information. Students work quietly on morning math after they do their lunch count. Alert is on Tuesdays. See sub folder to see which students
attend Alert. Do not count them absent on Tuesdays.

Math

8:45 am - 10:00
am

8:45 Students begin morning math that's on their desks while teacher does lunch count. When that's done, ask students to meet on
the carpet for a mini-lesson.

8:50-9:00 Whole-Class Mini-lesson: Review place value with decimals. Construct an anchor chart. Include relating decimals to fractions.
Students create one in their math notebooks simultaneously.

Small-Group Practice
9:00-9:15 Meet with Teacher Station: Students bring morning math to back table to grade/discuss together.
9:15-9:30 Computation Station: Students play the Making 10s card game to practice fact fluency. Then, they do multiplication number bonds
on the computer. Finally, they create their own addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. After working, them they check their
work with a calculator.
9:30-9:45 Problem-Solving Station: Students work model-drawing bean cards. They choose Level 1, 2, 3, or 4 based on their readiness level.
They know which one to do.
9:45-10:00 Review Station: http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/small-groupmathwork. Students choose a site that they need more practice in.

Groups are posted on chart in the classroom. Group 1 meets with the teacher first. Group 2 goes to the computation station. Group 3 goes to
the problem-solving station. Group 4 goes to the morning-work station. Every 15 minutes they rotate.

Computer Lab

10:00 am - 10:50
am

Working with Words

Word Sort: Create a T-chart. -est (suffix), -est (part of word). If it has a suffix, write the root word.

10:50 am - 11:23
am

smartest
softest
funniest
houseguest
invest
request
arrest
largest
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detest
easiest
quickest
biggest
luckiest
greatest
digest
forest
honest
ripest
protest
tiniest

Lunch

11:23 am - 11:48
am

Science or Social Studies

Add yesterday's summary to Westward Expansion brochure. Continue working on brochure.

ELA

12:30-

11:50 am - 12:45
pm

12:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Reading Mini-Lesson: Review components of mythology.

Notes:

12:45
12:45-

Guided Reading Groups: Students practice plays in groups.

1:05

Books are leveled based on reading levels. Students may choose to partner read or read independently. Use of
whisper phones is encouraged.
See literature discussion schedule below.

1:05-1:20 Literature Response: Write a 20 word summary of your mythology play.

This is written in their composition notebooks.
See literature discussion schedule below.
1:20-1:35 Writing Mini-Lesson: Model a 15 minute quick write: Write about a fun time you had with family or friends.

1:35-2:05 Students Write: 20 minute quick write: Write about a fun time you had with family or friends.

2:05-2:30 Self-Selected Reading:

See conferring schedule below. Remind students to record their reading in their literature response notebook.
2:30-3:00 Recess: Duty on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Every Other Friday

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3:00-3:10 Author's Chair:

This is a class job. Three students read aloud and may collect three compliments from classmates.
3:10-3:25 Read Aloud: Model a thinking strategy when reading. i.e. connecting, predicting, inferring, visualizing, monitoring,
summarizing, evaluating.
Weekly Conference Schedule
With this schedule, every group will meet with the teacher every day.

Mrs. Dick's Groups

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Meet at Back Table

Guided Reading

Make-up

Literature Response

Make-up

Writing

Make-up

Self-Selected Reading 4

Make-up

Miss Smith's Groups

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Meet at Miss Smith's

Desk
Guided Reading

Make-up

Literature Response

Make-up

Writing

Make-up

Self-Selected Reading

Make-up

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