Weekly Lesson Plan and Schedule
Linda Buffalo
8/18/2014-8/22/2014
Self- Contained Special Education
Subject
Science
(8:008:30)
Social
Studies
(8:309:00)
Social
Skills/etc.
(9:059:35)
Advisory
(9:359:54)
Objectives for
Week
Identify the
sense organs.
Understand
how smelling
works.
Learn that
sense organs
send signals to
the brain.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Build
understanding:
Brainstorm
senses and
what they do.
How do they
help us learn
about the
world around
us?
Match senses
with body
parts.
Make the
model:
Create and
label a paper
model of the
body parts that
do the work of
sensing.
Use the model:
Study the
model and
explain how
the body part
senses.
Color the
model for
display.
Laboratory
experiment:
Taste and
Smell tests
Technology:
Does
smelling
affect
tasting?
How can
disagreeable
odors help
us?
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/readers/health/book1/intro.htm
Identify and
use vocabulary
associated with
geography
Create a lap
book that
shows and
explains the
basics of
geography.
Learn and
practice the
social skills
needed in
various
situations.
Jumpstart:
Welcome to
Geography
(introduction)
Create cover
for lap book
about the
basics of
geography.
Jumpstart:
Review the
planets in our
solar system
Define the
layers of where
we are from
galaxy to
street.
Jumpstart:
Continents
and bodies
of water.
Identify and
match bodies
of water.
Jumpstart:
Continent and Country Practice (finding within a story)
Evaluate
personal
behavior.
Class discussion
and checklist
completion.
Read Aloud
Flat Stanley
Learn the
importance
about
humane
education.
Information
about the
Mutt club.
Read Aloud
Flat Stanley
Learn the importance of team work to create a beautiful song with 8
note bells.
Practice the song, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”
Cool Tools
Utilize a word
processing
program to
create a
diagram that
shows 6
geometric
figures.
Read Aloud
Flat Stanley
Why is the skin
the largest
sense organ in
the body?
Jumpstart:
Six facts about
our planet.
Identify and
match
landforms.
Learn the rules
and etiquette
needed to play
board/card
games with
family and
friends.
Read Aloud
Flat Stanley
Watch the interactive video:
http://pbskids.org/sid/isense.html
http://www.kviekids.org/games/discover_science/my_five_senses.htm
http://itc.gsu.edu/techport/five%20senses.pdf
Identify and match 18 vocabulary terms associated with basic
geography.
Go over grades individually with students.
Math
(10:0010:49)
(1:452:30)
Learn
strategies in
problem
solving.
Represent and
interpret data.
Improve
fluency in
math.
(operation and
algebraic
thinking)
Problem
Solving: Learn
and try the act
it out strategy.
Practice:
Use tally marks
and graph your
findings.
Fluency: add
and subtract
within 20.
Pretest and
Lesson.
Problem
Solving:
Learn and try
the Draw a
picture or
diagram
strategy
Practice:
Graph
information
and interpret
the
information.
Fluency: add
and subtract
within 20
Problem
Solving: Learn
the Make a list,
table or chart
strategy
Practice:
Interpret a
graph.
Fluency:
Add and
subtract within
20. Fluency:
Add and
subtract within
20. Post test
Literacy
(10:4511:30)
(2:353:15)
Learn and
reinforce sight
words in
reading.
Preview Text.
Identify
common nouns
and proper
nouns.
Identify
singular and
plural nouns.
Practice
Reading
Comprehension
skills with real
world
documents.
Use pictures to
help write
sentences and
paragraphs.
Sight words
that stick: saw
Before reading
preview the
text.
Identify
common nouns
.
Read and
answer
comprehension
questions a
fifth grade
supply list.
Drawing and
writing activity.
Level 1
Sort and
classify topics
Sight words
that stick: find
Before reading
preview the
text.
Identify
common
nouns.
Determine fact
or opinion
statements
about the fifth
grade supply
list.
Drawing and
writing activity.
Level 2
Sort and
classify topics
Sight words
that stick: run
Before reading
preview the
text.
Identify
common nouns
and proper
nouns.
Read and
answer
comprehension
questions
about a page in
a student
handbook.
Drawing and
writing activity.
Level 3
Sort and
classify topics
Problem
Solving:
Learn the
guess and
check
strategy.
Practice:
Understand
and use
ordinal
numbers.
Fluency:
Represent
and solve
problems
involving
addition and
subtraction
Pretest and
Lesson.
Sight words
that stick:
help
Before
reading
preview the
text.
Identify
common
nouns and
proper
nouns.
Create an
outline about
the school
rules in the
student
handbook.
Drawing and
writing
activity.
Level 1
Problem Solving: Learn the find a pattern strategy.
Practice: Understand and use ordinal numbers.
Fluency: Represent and solve problems involving addition and
subtraction.
Sight words that stick: where, here, there
Before reading preview the text.
Identify singular and plural nouns.
Read and answer questions about an advertisement for a product.
Drawing and writing activity. Level 2
Understand relationships to understand topics and subtopics.
Sort and
classify topics
as a prewriting
skills.
Understand
relationships to
understand
topics and
subtopics.
Current
Events/
Reading
(1:001:40)
News-2-You
Read and learn
about roller
coasters.
Understand
relationships
to
understand
topics and
subtopics.
Read article
View websites
Complete
vocabulary
activity
Read and
Follow
directions.
Read about
Amusement
Parks and view
websites
Watch
interactive
powerpoint
Comprehension
questions and
math activities.
More activities
about roller
coasters: math,
recipes, writing
paragraphs.
More
activities
about roller
coasters:
math,
puzzles, etc.
Science Experiment: gravity
Letter home review