Map it Out Monday: March 18, 2013

Hi everyone. After a week off of work and much longer from blogging, I am trying to come back from the grave. I am going to start small. Today is a quick one.

Kinder Plan for week of 03/18/13

Theme: St. Patrick's day; Spring/ Plants
Phonemic Awareness skill: Rhyming

Phonics: Letter of the week: Ee (Alphafriend Edna Elephant)

Sight/ HFW word: play, we

Vocab: bloom, sprout, fresh

 Comprehension skill: Making Inferences

1st grade plans for week of 03/18/13

Theme: St. Patrick's day; Spring/ Plants
Phonemic Awareness skill: Delete Phonemes

Phonics: sounds for y (as in my)

Sight/ HFW word: around, else, ever, talk, though

Word families: -y

 Comprehension skill: Making inferences

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 03/18/13
Topics covered: Expository/ How To

Have a great day everyone!

Map it Out Monday: February 04, 2013

Hi everyone. Today is a quick one.

Kinder Plan for week of 02/04/13

Theme: Transportation
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and rime, syllables and blending phonemes

Phonics: Letter of the week: Dd (Alphafriend Dudley Duck)

Sight/ HFW word: have, am

Vocab: transportation, vehicle

 Comprehension skill: Main Idea/ Detail

BTW, I just love all the books I am reading for my transportation theme. I take 2 to 3 weeks to get them all read. If you have time check out the ones for this week they are fab.

1st grade plans for week of 02/04/13

Theme: Groundhogs Day; Chinese New Year
Phonemic Awareness skill: Segment Phonemes

Phonics: Long o; Vowel patterns: oo (as in book) and compound words

Sight/ HFW word: afraid, any, follow, most, water

Word families: -ook, ood (just noticed a mistake in my plans.) :(

 Comprehension skill: Main Idea/ Details

No 2nd/ 3rd grade plans this week because most of them are off for somt practice state testing. So we are pretty much free writing with the few kids I do have in my group. Time to go teach the rest of the day.

Map it out Monday: Jan 28, 2013

Hi everyone. Today is a quick one, just my plans for the week. Tomorrow morning I'll be presenting in front of all the ELL teachers in my district. Yikes! So I will be working all night! Not really, I have it all done. I'll just be fretting all night about what I will actually say. LOL Hope your Monday night is much calmer than mine. :)

Kinder Plan for week of 01/28/13

Theme: Transportation
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and rime, syllables and blending phonemes

Phonics: Letter of the week: Qq (Alphafriend Queenie Queen)

Sight/ HFW word: for, look

Vocab: transportation, vehicle

 Comprehension skill: Main Idea/ Detail

BTW, I just love all the books I am reading for my transportation theme. I take 2 to 3 weeks to get them all read. If you have time check out the ones for this week they are fab.

1st grade plans for week of 01/28/13

Theme: Groundhogs Day; Poetry
Phonemic Awareness skill: Segment Phonemes

Phonics: Long o; Vowel patterns: oa (as in goat) and ow (as in snow)

Sight/ HFW word: again, both, gone, or, want

Word families: -ow

 Comprehension skill: Main Idea/ Details

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 01/22/13
Topics covered: Nonfiction Research: Biographies and Countries

Off to go food shopping. Might take my mind off of tomorrow morning. :)

Lesson Plans Galore

Hi everyone,

Are you enjoying your MLKjr day? I was enjoying the inauguration and my day off, BUT then it started to snow. :( That means I have to shovel. Yuck.

Sorry about my LONG absence. The holidays snuck up on me and then it was very hard to get back into the grove. I am back though and I have so much I want to share in my head that I feel like I will lose it if I don't get it all out here. However, today I want to share my weeks lesson plans and reveal two new templets up for sale on my sister blog, A Teacher's Plan.

But first, I have a question. Do you want me to continue to post my weekly lesson plans in PDF format for you to download?

Kinder Plan for week of 01/22/13

Theme: MLK jr and 100 day of school
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and rime, syllables and blending phonemes

Phonics: Letter of the week: Kk (Alphafriend Keely Kangaroo)

Sight/ HFW word: by, here

Vocab: dream, together, diversity, racism

 Comprehension skill: Main Idea/ Detail

1st grade plans for week of 01/22/13

Theme: Penguins; MLK jr. and 100th day of school
Phonemic Awareness skill: Segment Phonemes

Phonics: Long a CVCe; Vowel patterns: ai and ay

Sight/ HFW word: long, more, other, right, these, much and small

Word families: -ay, -ail and -ain

 Comprehension skill: Main Idea/ Details

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 01/22/13
Topics covered: Nonfiction Research: Biographies and Countries

Now for the new goods. Over on A Teacher's Plan I posted two new lesson plans for purchase. The first was created for and named after my friend Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasbord...

 The Greg

This template is a "week at a glance" 2 page template, made to sit side by side, for all subjects. Made specifically for a Kindergarten class, but with a few edits you can make it work for other grades. Days are listed across the top of the template. Subjects listed are Reading, Writing, Math, Science/Social Studies, and even an Arts/Crafty section, are listed going down the page. You will also get sections for your Objectives, Standards/CCS, Material and Assessments. A lot packed into 2 pages of organizations. The font used in this template is one of my new favorites, called LD Elementary.

I have to say that this template looks better in use than it does posted here. Greg has his lessons posted and when I took a peek I was wowed at how fabulous it looked. You have to go see, but not before you take a look at my next template. This template is my own, for my Kindergarten class. It is the sister template to my First grade plans posted here.

M's Kinder Plans

This template is a one page, week at a glace format. It includes areas for whole group instruction and independent practice, ie guided reading. It covers whole group and guided reading, writing and language arts. On the left hand side you will find a box for the weekly objectives, evaluations, ELL/ ESL strategies and a spot to jot down your small groups. The font used in this template is a clean and simple template called LD Elementary.

What do you think? 

To check out more templates and prices just click on the button below.

Map it Out Monday: Holiday Style... 12/10/12

Hi everyone! Welcome back to...

Kinder Plan for week of 12/10/12
We will be reading...
 

Theme: Gingerbread Man Theme stories/ International GB man
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and Rime

Phonics: Letter of the week: Ff (Alphafriend Fifi Fish)

Sight/ HFW word: you

Vocab:Matzo Ball, Tortilla, Wok

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

1st grade plans for week of 12/10/12 

Theme: Winter Holidays
Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: Long Aa CVCe, Soft Cc and Gg, Endings: ng, nk and nd

Sight/ HFW word: could, house, how, over, so, take

Word families: -ate, -ach, -ank and -ing

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

Holiday stories we are reading...

...obviously not all in one week. We read the Hanukkah books last week, Kwanza this week and Diwali next. We also have read Christmas stories each week. I'll post those another time.

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 12/10/12
Topics covered: Time words, Similies, Vivid and Week Verbs.

Focus on having different kinds of sentences.

 

I hope to bring you some of my students adorable work sometime later this week. Have a great night!

December Currently & Week's Plans

I took a week of but I am back. Was it as difficult for you guys to get back in the swing of things as it was for me last Monday. Those long weekends/ breaks kill me when they are less than a week long. So looking forward to two whole weeks off in just 3 short weeks. Anyway here is my December Currently.

Don't forget to hop over to Farley's blog and link up your currently or just read what everyone else wrote.
But don't go yet...

Something else I am looking forward to is all the fun that the next 3 weeks will hold. Let's not get into the stress or drama that will also ensue, but as I sat typing my plans tonight I thought "wow my kids are going to have so much fun with these activities."

Now cause it is Monday you are entitled to your regularly scheduled Map it Out Monday. Here you go...

Can't wait to get all my gingerbread activities going with this group. We will be doing some of the same Gingerbread activities as in previous years, you can read about them here. We have also added some new activities and I have added links to my plans in case you were interested.

Kinder Plan for week of 12/03/12 

Theme: Gingerbread Man; Numbers and Shapes
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and Rime

Phonics: Letter of the week: Gg (Alphafriend Gerttie Goose)

Sight/ HFW word:go, love

Vocab: number words, shape words

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

While the Kinder kids are working on Gingerbread madness, the 1st graders will have a Snowman theme going this week. As well as studying Hanukkah.

1st grade plans for week of 12/03/12 

Theme: Snowmen; Hanukkah
Phonemic Awareness skill: Segment Phonemes

Phonics: Digraphs: sh, th, wh, ch and tch

Sight/ HFW word: long, more, other, right, these, much and small

Word families: -ash and -ush

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

My 2nd and 3rd graders are still working on finishing up some descriptive writing so we will put off our holiday themed writing until later this week, or even next week.

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 12/03/12
Topics covered: Telling & Asking sentences, Nouns, Time words, showing & not telling  our stories.

Have a great day, I hope to be back tomorrow with a great Tuesday Teaching Tip!

Map it out Monday: My lesson plans.

I'm going to interrupt your regularly scheduled...

because my plan this week are ummm, well not worth posting really. We have two kid days and one teacher day and I can tell you that on Tuesday we are watching and discussing Charlie Browns Thanksgiving and Mayflower Voyage.

However, I did want to share that I did mange to finally clean up, edit and post my personal lesson plans for purchase over on my sister blog, A Teacher's Plan. I know several of you have requested them, both Kinder and First grade but I only managed to get my First Grade plans up. I promise to work on my Kinder plans this long weekend. Cause you know I will NOT be going out on Black Friday, or Saturday and Sunday. I just can't take the crowds. I prefer online shopping. Soooooo, here you go.

M's First Grade

This template is a one page week at a glace format. It includes areas for whole group instruction and independent practice, ie guided reading. It covers whole group and guided reading, writing and language arts. On the left hand side you will find a box for the weekly objectives, evaluations, ELL/ ESL strategies and a spot to jot down your small groups. The font used in this template is a clean and simple template called LD Elementary.

Want a closer look? Click on the images below.

Want it? Click on the button below.

Now I will leave you so that I can give my tenure class my full attention. I am a terrible student. You know how doctors make the worst patients, well I feel most teachers make terrible students. :P

Map it Out Monday: 11/12/12

Ugh, my internet was just NOT connecting today. This will be a short post. Now on to your regularly scheduled...

Kinder Plan for week of 11/12/12 

Theme: Thanksgiving
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and Rime

Phonics: Letter of the week: Cc and Vv (Alphafriend Callie Cat and Vinny volcano)

Sight/ HFW word: to,me

Vocab: gathering, feast, thankful, dinner

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

1st grade plans for week of 11/12/12 

Theme: Thanksgiving
Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: s blends, silent letter kn, gn, wr and short e review

Sight/ HFW word: friend, know, play, read, she, write

Word families: -ell and -est

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

Just noticed an error in this, word families, grrrr. I'll have to correct that later. Sorry.

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 11/12/12
Topics covered: Descriptive Writing, adding details, using sensory words.

Focus on having complete sentence.

Have a great night!

Map it Out Monday: 11/05/12

Looking forward to another crazy week. I think tomorrow might be my easiest day and we all know how smoothly Mondays go. Anyway, I have parent conferences to look forward to on Tuesday and Thursday. Not to mention that I plan to Vote before work on Tuesday.

Please people go out and vote. It is important. We can't run our mouths it we don't start by doing something ourselves. This is important. That was my PSA for the day. 

Now on to your regularly scheduled...

Kinder Plan for week of 11/05/12 

Theme: Election
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and Rime

Phonics: Letter of the week: Aa (Alphafriend Andy Apple)

Sight/ HFW word: a, at

Vocab: vote, election, president, ballot

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

1st grade plans for week of 11/05/12 

Theme: Election
Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: L blends, contractions with 's and short o review

Sight/ HFW word: come, family, love, people, your

Word families: -ock and -op

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 11/05/12
Topics covered: Review and practice Descriptive Writing. 

Focus on having complete sentence.

 Now I will leave you with pictures of two of my ELL kids practicing their math, all on their own might I add, during FREE TIME! It is unbelievable. I was in their room and was so pleasantly surprised I ran back to my room to grab my iTouch just to take pictures.

 Best part was that their work was correct!

 They were so into it they never noticed I was snapping pics. :P

Have a great week everyone.

Map it out Monday: 10/ 29/ 12 and BATS!

Wow what a crazy week. I was unable to return which made me a little sad because I waned to share some great pics with you. PLUS it was my birthday on Saturday. That is right I am now 31 years old. :P

So my classes are way backed up and we have TONS to get done but I did manage to get my kids to create some great things. FYI, because I teach both K and 1st ELL several of my kids are with me for multiple years. I don't want them to do the same thematic things twice so I try, whenever possible to do different activities with them. Thanks to you all I can. :) This year Kinder is working with Spiders and 1st did Bats. It was wonderful. Anyway...

Welcome back for:

Kinder Plan for week of 10/29/12 

Theme: Spiders
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and Rime

Phonics: Letter of the week: Hh (Alphafriend Nile Noodle)

Sight/ HFW word: no, yes

Vocab:arachnid, abdomen, dangerous, helpful

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

1st grade plans for week of 10/29/12 

Theme: Bats
Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: r controlled vowels, contractions with 's & short i review

Sight/ HFW word: also, color, funny, many, some

Word families: -ick and -ill

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 10/29/12
Topics covered: Voice trait review, Sentence Fluency trait, Editing marks and Descriptive Writing. 

Focus on having complete sentence.

Here are some great pics of my 1st graders bats.

Check out what this lil genius wrote...

I hope to be back with more pictures VERY soon, like tomorrow. Cross your fingers. :)

Have a great week!

Map it out Monday: 10/22/12

Welcome back for...

Kinder Plan for week of 10/22/12 

Theme: Homes/ Houses
Phonemic Awareness skill: Onset and Rime

Phonics: Letter of the week: Nn (Alphafriend Nile Noodle)

Sight/ HFW word: like

Vocab: house/homes, rooms, furniture

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

1st grade plans for week of 10/22/12 

Theme: Bats
Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: Verb endings -s, -ed, -ing; Short i review

Sight/ HFW word: all, eat, first, why, when

Word families: -ip and -in

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 10/22/12
Topics covered: Voice trait review, Sentence Fluency trait, Editing marks and introduce Descriptive Writing. 

Focus on having complete sentence.

Have a great week!

Map it out Monday: 10/15/12

Welcome back to...

Before I share my plans for the week, I want to share that there are changes coming to my little classroom world. You may remember me mentioning, last year, that our school was cut one ELL teacher. Because one of my colleagues retired, I got to stay on the team, and not relocated. That meant that this year there would be 2 ELL teachers serving close to 70 kids.

Wow! right? Well, because the bulk of our kids are in K and 1st can you guess who had 40+ kids coming in and out of her room everyday? Granted they were not all at the same time but... it is not easy working on 42 report cards.

The good news is that we have now been given another ELL teacher for .6 of the day, more than half. :) The not so hot thing is that I still see a lot of kids BUT I will only see the 2nd and 3rd graders for Writing.

So you saw almost nothing of me last week because I have been working on my schedule and the new teachers schedule and still trying to accommodate the Gen Ed teachers needs and wants. It is a hard job. I think I am out of the woods though and this week, we start the new plan.

If something is going to go wrong, it will on Wednesday. Why Wednesday? Well, my bloggie friends, that is because I have 2 whole days off for Fall break. Nothing compared to the week we used to get, but hey it is better than nothing and will give me time to work on those 40+, first quarter, report cards I am still responsible for.

Now, without further ado...

Kinder Plan for week of 10/15/12 

Theme: Family
Phonemic Awareness skill: Beginning sounds

Phonics: Letter of the week: Bb (Alphafriend Bennie Bear)

Sight/ HFW word: dad

Vocab: Family words cont... (Grandma, Grandpa)

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing

1st grade plans for week of 10/15/12 

Theme: Families
Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: Double final consonants; Short a review

Sight/ HFW word: animal, look, of, this

Word families: -ap and -ack

 Comprehension skill: Summarizing


2nd and 3rd grade Writing for week of 10/15/12
(Still a work in progress.) 
Topics covered: Voice trait, Using dialogue, Editing marks and reviewing when to use I and me in a sentence.


I hope to be back tomorrow with a new Teacher Tip Tuesday. One that I love. Have a great Monday.

Map it out Monday 10-08-12

Kinder

Theme: Families

Letter: Tt

First Grade

Second and Third Grade

Crazy day today, I'll try to share more tomorrow. :)

Map it out Monday: 10/01/12

This weeks plans were relatively easy. Part of that is Monday is a plan day, so not much going on then. The other side of it is that we are now 6 weeks into the school year and I think we are finally getting into a routine. Now without further ado, it is time for...

Kinder Plan for week of 10/01/12 

Phonemic Awareness skill: Beginning sounds

Phonics: Letter of the week: Rr (Alphafriend Reggie Rooster)

Sight/ HFW word: Review I, see

Vocab:Color words

 Comprehension skill: Story Elements

Theme: Colors

1st grade plans for week of 10/01/12 

Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: Letter review for Qq, Jj, Zz and shortUu

Sight/ HFW word: are, they, her, where

Word families: -ut and -ug

 Comprehension skill: Story Elements

Theme: Changing Seasons

If you were looking for the 2nd and 3rd grade lesson plans, those are on hold for the moment. One of the many reasons is that I am tweaking them to better reflect what my students and I can get done in the time allotted us. So I will be working on them tomorrow.

As always have a great week!

Map it out Monday x3

Plans for the week? You mean I am suppose to do those every week? Huh? LOL ok, you know me and you know the one thing I do love is planning. Doesn't mean that it is easy. I was up until midnight again working on my plans. Here is my week x3.

Kinder Plan for week of 9/24/12 

Phonemic Awareness skill: Beginning sounds

Phonics: Letter of the week: Mm (Alphafriend Mimi Mouse)

Sight/ HFW word: see

Academic vocab: First, Middle and Last

 Comprehension skill: Story Elements

Theme: Colors

1st grade plans for week of 9/24/12 

Phonemic Awareness skill: Blending Phonemes

Phonics: Letter review for Yy, Kk, Vv and short Ee

Sight/ HFW word: do, is, you, for, me

Word families: -et and -en

 Comprehension skill: Story Elements

Theme: Johnny Appleseed

2-3 plans for week of 9/24/12

Phonics: I use Systematic Sequential Phonics with these kids so this week we are on lessons 26-30 and working on e (as in he) as well as digraphs ch, sh and th. In addition to all that I am also covering CVCe words.

Sight/ HFW word: eight, enough, second, seven, three, two, first, four

 Comprehension skill: Story Elements

Theme and Vocab: Johnny Appleseed and Seasons

So my 2-3 lesson plans are a bit skimpy. My service time changes and I still have not adjusted my plans to reflect what will actually be going on in my room. That is on my to-do list for the week.

Also if you notice that the Guided Reading story hasn't changed, well that is because I don't have my HUGE teachers manuals at home. So what I do is just plug that in on Monday Mornings before I print my plans at work. :P

On Thursday, I plan to share all the wonderful resources I use to help me plan. I also got some WONDERFUL new items from teacher bloggers that I am stoked to show you all. Have a great week!

Map it out Monday???

I've noticed that several of you have been sharing your lesson plans. It made me want to share mine too. I wanted to post them on Sunday so you could take a peek before the week started. However, you know when I got my plans done? Last night at midnight. :/ So Sunday was out of the question. I thought of Monday but not sure about it. Also I don't know if it is anything you all are interested in. So again not sure how often I will post them. If you like them and find them valuable please leave me a comment and/or feedback in the comment box below.

Not gonna talk much about them. Again if you have a question feel free to leave it below and I subscribe. I promise I will respond.

Here are my Kinder Plans...

Here you can find my First Grade plans...

Can't post my 2nd and 3rd grade ones this week, but maybe next week. Feel free to click on either one to get a PDF download of them.