Daily Schedule Handout
Russell Yates and Heidi Mattern
To help parents visualize what a "typical day" would
look like, my former teaching partner and I made a copies of
the following tentative daily schedule for them. It was not long
before it was modified substantially, but at that first information
meeting it really helped parents see that the class wasn't going
to be some sort of "free-choice playtime."
Of course now I use a current student
schedule for an example of what the day looks like and it
is equally effective.
Daily Schedule
tentative
8:45-9:00 Arrival
9:00-9:30 Opening
- attendance
- pledge of allegiance
- daily planning meeting
9:30-10:30 Math Time Block
- Math Baskets & math centers
- small groups with teachers
- self-paced math activities
10:30-10:45 Recess
10:45-11:30 Communication Arts Time Block
- journal writing
- spelling
- Daily Oral Language (grammar)
- writing projects
- keyboarding & computers
11:30-12:00 Theme Studies (Science, Social
Studies, etc.)
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:45 Reading Time Block
- Instructional Library
- small group reading (teacher and parent led)
- independent reading
1:45-2:15 Specialists (P.E., Music, Library)
2:15-2:30 Recess
2:30-2:50 Menu Time (student choice between
teacher-created options)
2:50-3:15 Daily Debrief and classroom clean-up
3:15 Dismissal
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