Daily Routine

How do we incorporate math daily?

Every morning during our classroom meeting we talk about what month, day, and year we are in.  Every month a new pattern is created with our numbers by color.  So far we have learned an A-B pattern, and now we are learning an A-B-B pattern.  This month, we will be weighing, measuring, and classifying pumpkins.  We also listen to a lot of songs that incorporate counting in an interactive way, discussing addition and subtraction.

How do we incorporate literacy daily?

Every day we read a picture book that goes along with a theme or idea we are learning about in class.  While we are preparing for lunch, we read a chapter from a beginner chapter book.  We read at least one poem daily to develop fluency.  Also, every morning we have a daily message that is in the form of a friendly letter.  It is consistent and predictable which builds your child's interest in learning to read.  Beginning today we shook things up a bit... there are missing letters in our morning message and we need to sound out the word in order to write the letters.  We are also busy identifying words verses letters, and incorporating shapes into our lesson too!  This will also build our site vocabulary and letter identification.

When we finish eating lunch, we read books (handle books, look at pictures, make picture-to-text connections).  We also have pointers in our room that we can use to find words and numbers throughout our room to read.  Our read aloud also includes a daily discussion about the different parts of a book: front, back, spine, title and dedication page; and the role of an illustrator and author.