1st
Lesson Plans
Week – August 25-August 29
Major Objectives:
Organization
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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
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Vocabulary
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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.
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:
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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:
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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:
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Friday:
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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.
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).