My Daily Schedule

You guys asked for a peek into my daily schedule.
So, as always, I am here to help you take that peek into my classroom schedule.

Here is a glimpse into my Kindergarten Daily Schedule.

My schedule doesn’t always look exactly like this.
I check out the services any and all my students will be receiving each year.
Then I make adjustments based on their services and needs.

You will probably notice that I don’t have a
morning meeting or calendar time first thing in the am.
I do that on purpose.
I have a TA (teaching assistant) in my classroom in the morning.
I do not have her in my classroom all day.

Since I do not need an assistant to do calendar time,
I choose to do that structured time when I don’t have a TA.
First learning segment in the morning is my prime time with my students.
Since we have Specials like music, PE, or computer lab,
I know I will most likely get students who have moved and wiggled for 45 minutes.
If they come from computer lab, we all wiggle for a few minutes.

Then, we jam on it with This is an awesome part of our day.
We involve video, music, technology, books,motions, sensory activities, and lots of hands on, interactive activities.
Here is a link to more phonics activities and ideas.

Then we easily transition into which is our literacy structure.
I run 8 stations a day. It sounds crazy but when my class size gets larger,
I have to give the students more room to spread out!
You can read more about that here.
Most of this is done in small groups and differentiation is a huge element
in making this time a success.
{Here is ton of information about this!}

That is our whole morning.
After an early lunch and too short recess,
I am on my own for a good hour.
This time works so much better for story time,
then diving into

This is a time I allot to just work on sight words.
Since all these stations are hands on and independent,
they are easy to run without extra hands.
Here is more info and links to sight word stations.

NOW we get to
which I LOVE.
We start the year barely being able to sit and listen.
We build on our abilities and expand our knowledge all year.
This time is so precious to me since I am engaging all my learners
ALL at once.
{We spend much of our day in small groups so this is one time we are all together.}
Here is some ideas for calendar time too.

Next in our schedule come unit.
Our unit includes

We tie in our story time to this topic, introduce it at calendar time,
and then expand on the topic here.
I also try my best integrate experiments and art into this time.
Here are science ideas and here are social studies ideas.

Lastly, we get to
We move onto math at the end of the day.
Again, this isn’t because math is LESS important.
Rather, I know my students will get extra hands and support
if we teach math at this time.

Once we work with our math topic, we dive into centers.
I run 6 work centers a week and stagger their work with play.
My students play at least 15 minutes a day.
And by the end of the week,
all my students can play this whole time
because their work is completed.

Here is a post about how I set up centers.
Here are TONS of posts with center ideas for the whole year called Center Saturday.

 

I wanted to update this on my schedule I used last school year…
just so you can see a different mix of placing things.