Our morning schedule is coming into fruition. We begin each day with different tabletop morning activity. For example, every Monday, we participate in a colouring activity, every Thursday, we participate in an activity requiring the use of scissors and one to two days a week, we work in our Morning Book (focusing on personal information, our age, name of our school, our birthday, printing our name...).
We then meet as a large group for our Morning Message, where students will learn what we will be doing that day and may also include a question that each student must answer. We also learn how to read one to two poems this month. Students are provided with the opportunity to lead the class when reading the poems and also participate in word-finding activities. We then begin our Calendar routine. We sing the months of the year song, talk with our hands by signing the days of the week, verbally sing the days of the week song, figure out today's date and take turns completing our Today is..., Yesterday was..., Tomorrow will be and weather chart.
Depending on the length of time that we have been sitting, we may break for a body break before or after we participate in our daily Core Vocabulary activity. We then practice lining up and walking in a straight line as we go to the bathroom before we eat our snack. Students either read or complete puzzles while they wait for their peers to finish his snack.
The remainder of our morning include a sight word song and/or activity (our core word of the week is the sight word that we focus on) and Guided Reading. Students are divided into two Guided Reading groups. Guided Reading class is followed by either Music class with Mrs. Bourgeois or a 10-15-minute body break. On the days that we do not have a Music class, after our body break, the students are again divided into two groups. One group participates in activities that focus on letter sounds and the other group participate in activities surrounding reading and creating sentences.
Although a lot of learning is planned for our mornings, our mornings are flexible and depending on student need or student engagement, and therapist visits planned activities may change.
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