Students Will Learn Procedures, Classroom Expectations, and Academic Goals for the School Year

Lesson Plans

1st Week – August 25-August 29

Major Objectives:

Organization

· Students will learn procedures, classroom expectations, and academic goals for the school year.

· Students will brainstorm ideas for a personal goal they will set for themselves. They have a choice of an academic goal, a behavior goal, or a social goal.

· Students will bring in school supplies and will organize their folders.

· Students will learn the fire drill routine for our classroom.

Writing &

Writing Mechanics

· Students will identify 4 parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Quiz over these parts of speech Friday, September 5.

· Students will use commas correctly in sentences.

Vocabulary

· Students will work this 6 weeks on an activity called, “Out with the Old and In with the New.” They will “toss” the following overused words and will use new vocabulary to replace them: nice, saw (verb), ran, good, smart, laughed, pretty, funny, said, happy, little, walked, big, sad, and like. New words used are: kind, glimpsed, hurried, great, witty, snickered, beautiful, farcical, called, glad, teeny, staggered, towering, downcast, admired. Quiz over these words Friday, September 5.

Learning Activities the Week of August 25, 2014

Monday:

· Students will learn procedures, classroom expectations, and academic goals for the school year.

· Students will brainstorm ideas for a personal goal they will set for themselves. They have a choice of an academic goal, a behavior goal, or a social goal.

Tuesday:

· Students will identify 4 parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Quiz over these parts of speech Friday, September 5.

· Students will finish writing their personal goals.

· Students will create a bubble map using adjectives to describe themselves.

Wednesday &

Thursday:

· Students will go to the Bookroom.

· Students will work with partners to write rules regarding comma usage.

· Students will take notes on comma usage.

· Students will review nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

· Students will identify a complete sentence from a phrase.

· Students will identify subjects and predicates in sentences.

Friday:

· Students will listen to stories from children’s literature to understand “voice” in writing.

· Students will play a game called, “Name that Emotion!” to determine the “voice” an author is using in his or her writing.

· Students will review parts of speech, comma usage, and the components of a complete sentence (subject and predicate).