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Beginning the year
By Kimberly
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I have taught 2nd grade for 5 years. I give a day or two of random activities and rules, procedures, and more rules. Then I begin my curriculum. It is much slower paced in the beginning as I teach how I want the journal| to be written in, and what I expect in centers. We do the math worksheet together and I show them how to show their work. I give the same amounts of time to each subject as I normally would. If it takes 2 days to get one math lesson done at first, so be it...but I start my time schedule and routine off right away. I give my homework out the first week of school. We teach guided reading | |
in our school, so the kids are doing centers while I have a group. Guided reading/centers is about 45 minutes. At the beginning of the day when the kids come in, they get their journal and write about the prompt on the board. I even give them whether I want a full page written or half a page. After 20 minutes, I have my attendance and lunch count down and most of the kids are actually at school (we have a lot of tardy children). Then we do the guided reading and centers. We spend an hour on math. We do a language mini-lesson and a shared writing activity (30-45 minutes). Two or three days a week, there is a phonics lesson which is built around spelling and a center. Science OR social studies is about 30 minutes a day. If I can incorporate it into writing time, I do. Handwriting is 10-15 minutes a day. The rest is lunch, recess, PE/music/computer, etc...I'd be interested to see how other 2nd grade teachers plan their day.
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