So it typically looks like just me in the classroom with all of the students. This time is so important for our class because at this time each day, our paras have Lunch Duty. But last year, students had recess with their inclusion classrooms, so we did not have a specific recess time. Some school years, our recess also overlaps this time and the beginning of computers in the classroom. We take this time to wash our hands and get cleaned up from lunch. In the past, a few of my higher level students would eat lunch with their inclusion classes. We help them eat and monitor our student’s lunch period. They eat lunch in the cafeteria, and both myself and paras attend lunch with our students. Through Monday-Thursday, students are also working on interactive sight word readers. Wednesday and Thursday are used for ELA centers and adapted work binders, quick checks on the stories we read, IEP goal data on specific students, and/or end of the story assessments. They’re a life saver! To get student reading levels, at the beginning of the year, we conduct the Literacy Assessment to see what students know. I use the leveled readers from Reading A-Z. Monday and Tuesday, we start new stories.
#DAILY 5 INTRODUCTION LESSON PLANNER FULL#
Whether that’s reading a story together and using a differentiated book companion, or a full on accommodated Guided Reading lesson, we’re all working. Typically what is looks like is a whole group session at the back table. IEP meetings are scheduled during this time as well, as well as other team meetings with admin, etc.ĮLA is such a short time, but we do SO. This is also the time when I take 45-minutes for teacher planning. And if they don’t (I mean… there are 4 grade levels in our classroom!) they are either in inclusion or in resource. It’s kind of crazy that our class is fortunate enough to all have specials around the same time. We do a modified morning calendar routine on Fridays 🙂 On Friday mornings, we also do Coffee Cart Friday. To read a very in-depth blog post about the entire first hour of our school day, click here. And it works every single day, it’s a routine the kids know, and it’s something my para could run if I were out for the day. It’s a section of our schedule that I planned for one time. This hour is probably my favorite part of the entire school day. It’s our 1:1 time to start out on a positive day.
One special thing about the beginning 15 minutes of the day is I get a moment to say good morning to each child and ask about their night or weekend. After that, we begin our morning calendar routine. We stand for the Pledge of Allegiance (and the Star Spangled Banner on Friday’s) and listen to the daily announcements. They eat breakfast in the classroom at their desk.Īt 8AM, the school announcements begin. If a student eats school breakfast, one of us will take the child down to the cafeteria to get breakfast. We ask each student if they need to use the restroom, as well as use this time to change any diapers or pull-ups. Or maybe signed paperwork, order forms, fundraiser packets… you know, all that fun stuff. Students If they had a Reading Toolkit to return, they place it on the back table. Students put their belongings away… backpacks in their cubbies, coats off, lunches out (so we can determine who packed and who will be eating school lunch), and students get their Daily Communication Logs out and put them on the back table. Contract time for paras begins at 7:30 and teachers begin at 7:45, so my paras get all of the students off the bus and bring them to the classroom. Most of my students arrive on the school bus. Let’s take a deeper look into each part of the day for a better explanation of what’s going on during each part of our day: It took me months to refine, and even some days it’s a work in progress.īut hopefully with these tips and tricks, you’ll be able to build a classroom schedule that works for you and meets the needs of all of your students.ġ1:00 – 11:45 Computers + iPads (Para Lunch Duty)ġ1:45 – 12:30 Motor Lab (Para Lunch Duty + Lunch)Ģ:00 – 2:45 Inclusion / Science / Social Studies What works for me, may or may not work for you… and I promise you that my class schedule wasn’t a one time thing. I do want to preface this entire post by saying that every single classroom is different.
#DAILY 5 INTRODUCTION LESSON PLANNER HOW TO#
I decided it may be time to share my classroom schedule, and give some pointers on how to make your classroom schedule work for you… no matter setting you work in.
Being a self-contained classroom special education teacher, I often get asked about what my classroom schedule looks like, how I lesson plan for all the different ability levels, and just what one single day in my classroom looks like.
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