Extended Day Kindergarten

Sub plans

Discipline Plan:

I send kids to time out if they misbehave, and one of their pyramid pieces comes down. To earn it back, they have to tell me what they are going to do differently next time. Two time outs, and they lose part of their playtime. If they have more time-outs than that, sometimes I take away all of their inside or outside playtime. After the first four weeks of school, our class begins staying until 1:20, and then we begin our “Five Minutes of Fun” after lunch for the children that have not lost any pyramid pieces during the day. For Five Minutes of Fun, sometimes we will play a game, or give them extra time with the toys, etc. The other children who have lost this privilege must just sit and watch, and then when it is over, tell me why they didn’t get to participate.

If you have trouble with anyone, please let me know by leaving a note. That way I can follow up on it. Thank you!

7:45-8:00 Prep Time

The kids should meet on the playground and stay outside before school, from 8:00-8:15. Have the children put their white binders in the big gray tubs when they come in. If it is raining, we’ll meet inside rather than on the playground. They can read books or watch a HeidiSongs DVD and sing along. Don’t let them run all over the room during this time, or it will be hard to get them to settle down at 8:15.

8:15 Call the children to their spots on the carpet. They have assigned seats. There is a seating chart on a clipboard that I keep up by the calendar.

Take roll. Also get a lunch count. Find out who is bringing or buying their lunch. I usually have them answer their roll call with “Bringing!” or “Buying!” rather than “Here,” just to kill two birds with one stone.

On Fridays ONLY: Library Day (8:30-8:50.) Walk to the library. Take the box of library books and bags with you. When you come back, have them put their binders and library books away all at the same time so that they don’t have to open their backpacks again at dismissal time. (This is assuming that there is nothing important to stuff into their binders later and the binders are ready to go.) When you come back from the library, you will need to pick up where you left off with the opening/calendar activities, etc.

8:25 - 8:35 Opening Activities

Pick a new helper of the day by choosing the next little t-shirt from the front of the stack of shirts in the storage container that is nailed to the wall between the calendar and the fire extinguisher. Put the previous helper’s shirt at the back of the stack, and put the new helper’s shirt on the bear with the paper clips on his shoulders. The helper will also be the line leader today.

Do the flag salute; the helper of the day gets to hold the flag. Sing a song. We always sing this and you can have the children show you how it goes:

“Red, white, and blue!

Red, white, and blue!

An A, B, C, pattern just for you!”

(repeat from the beginning)

Go through the calendar. Drill all of the kids on the flash cards that are stapled to the wall by the calendar. (No need to do the cards that are above the bulletin board on the wall.) Count how many days we have been in school using the pocket chart. Add one more day, and add a straw below. Drill the children on any cards that are in the pocket chart to the left of the hundreds pocket chart. I call on children by choosing a tongue depressor with the children’s names on them in the yellow cups on the table near the calendar.

Sing an active song to get the kids moving before going on to the next activity. This should increase their ability to cooperate with you for the next lesson. :)

8:35-8:55 Language Arts and/or Math Activity

Demonstrate fully how to do any worksheets that the children will be doing when they go to the tables for their academic rotation. The worksheet (if there is one) is listed below. If not, do the following activity.

Sing an active song to get the kids moving before going on to the next activity. This should increase their ability to cooperate with you for the next lesson. :)

8:55-9:00 Explain Art Project

Explain how to do the art project listed below. Fully demonstrate the project in front of them, making an entire project from beginning to end for the children to see. When the kids go through their rotation, they will do the art project at the art table. This is today’s art project:

9:00-10:25 Academic Rotation Time

Send the kids to their correct tables to begin the rotation. Their groups are listed on the color signs that are usually stored on the shelf in front of the calendar. (You will run either the Language Arts table or the Math table as listed below.) There should be volunteers to run one or more of the other tables. May God be with you if no one shows up to help! If no one shows up, then you may want to abort this whole rotation and do whatever seems best to you. Sometimes the activities listed below can be done whole group.

Start with the Red group at the north kidney shaped table for language arts. The Yellow group starts at the yellow table. If you do not have two volunteers during the rotation, you will need to have them play on the floor with some puzzles or the toy of your choice. The Blue group begins at the art table. The Green group begins at the south kidney table. The groups rotate activities every 20 minutes, with a few minutes passing time in between. My aide can show you which direction we rotate. Ask her to help you get started if this is confusing.

We stop our work for a recess break after two rotations at about 9:55 or 10:00 and come in about 10:15. Then after recess, we come in and pick up where we left off. (My aide should go out with them to watch them play at recess. If she doesn’t go out, ask her to do so.) I also usually pass out baby wipes to the children to clean their hands as they enter from recess. The baby wipes are by the back door near the small teacher’s easel and the fire extinguisher.

Note: My kids are used to singing a couple of songs in between each group rotation, and will probably cooperate better for you if you do, too!

Math Table activity: (at the south kidney shaped table):

Language Arts Table activity (at the north kidney shaped table by the loft):

Extra Math or Language Arts Activity (at the Yellow flower shaped table)

Art table activity (the rectangular table by the windows):

11:10 Clean up. Extra time? Read a story.

Get ready to go to lunch. Pass out the children’s lunch money that was collected this morning. Remind others to get their lunch boxes. Walk over to the cafeteria. My aide should go with you.

Lunch-11:15-12:00

Enjoy! 12:00 -Pass out baby wipes to the children as they come in so they may clean their hands.

12:05-12:20 Story time

Please read the following stories:

Sing an active song to get the kids moving before going on to the next activity. This should increase their ability to cooperate with you for the next lesson. :)

12:20-12:30Phonemic Awareness

Do a section of the Michael Heggerty Phonemic Awareness book. You will do one column, going down, depending on the day of the week. Do both the first and the second page. This is done orally, with the children calling out answers. Please look for the post-it note that I left in the book that tells you where to start with this activity. The book should be on my desk, but if it is not, it should be UNDER the small desktop easel that is next to the calendar at the front of the room. It is spiral bound, has a blue cover, and it is about 18” x 12” long/wide.

12:30- 12:55Playtime:

BEFORE you dismiss the children to play, make sure that they are packed up and ready to go home, with their binders zipped into their backpacks (not NEXT to their backpacks.) This will make dismissal go more efficiently for you.

Choose children to go in the playhouse (no more than six) and some to go up in the loft if they wish (no more than five.) Dismiss the other children to choose a toy or color with the colored markers or crayons and paper on the back counter.

12:55 - 1:15

Science/Social Studies

Please do the following activity;

1:15: Get ready to go home.

Make sure you are ready to dismiss at 1:20.

1:20 Open the back door. Parents should be there waiting for you to send the children out to them one child at a time. Ask each parent who they are picking up, and call that child’s name.

The bus riders can walk to the bus on their own. Send them immediately across the street (they will cross with the crossing guard) or they could miss the bus.

My Bussers are:

(If this is blank, ask my aide before she leaves for the day if there are any bussers this year. She leaves at lunch time.)

Extra time? Here’s some suggestions.

1. Read a book from the tub of extra books on the floor.

2. Sing a song.

3. Do more flash cards.

4. Play tic tac toe whole group, choosing girls to write the X’s and boys to write the Y’s.

5. Choose children to come to the front of the room and tell something for sharing.

1:25-2:15 After School Tutoring on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays

If there is no tutoring, then please work on the projects that need to be prepared on the blue chest of drawers under the All About Me board. They are in a white tub.

Please do as much prep work as you can until 3:00 when your work day is officially finished. Thanks for doing it. I REALLY appreciate it!

Tutoring Plans (for Mon., Tues., or Wed.):

The following kids stay for tutoring:

Activities:

Dismiss them at 2:15. Some may need to be walked to the bus across the street, or to Day Care.

2:15-3:00 (Or 1:20- 3:00 on Thursdays and Fridays) Prep Time:

Clean up the room and stack the chairs for the custodian. I would appreciate it if you could set up the room for tomorrow. Please put away the supplies that you used today as much as you can and put the following things out on each of the tables listed for tomorrow:

Language Arts Table (by the loft):

Math table (under the TV):

Small table (small round one):

Art Table (rectangular one by the sink):

Thank you!