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Monday July 12

Here is our CAFE menu. This is still a work in progress. I give them a sheet with a plain grid on it. We talk about where the strategy will go so they must think about that BEFORE we write it down.

Seuss Shopping at Target

Okay this is most of what I bought at Target today. I bought some multiple items for my teacher sister. :) Here goes: the pink thing in the back is a frog folder, then there are 4 Seuss bags, Sam I am , Cat in the Hat One Fish, and Horton. Then there is a pen microphone- used for our newscasts and pointer. A frog blanket. Under the frog blanket, is my new frog lunch box!!!! Next to that are 3 bins- Seuss colored and a purple mini crate. Erasers, pencil grips, 3 sets of stickers (I will use some to scrapbook, others for framing at my house) 6 books each of sea creatures, scorpions, and polar animals. There are binder dividers, and a purple organizer. In front there is a frog notebook, school themed pencils, Seuss erasers, some framed Seuss magnets, some tinier magnets, some little notebooks, some flashcards, and some water bottles!

End of the Day

We end our day with Cube It. 

 We all sit in a circle. Each child rolls a die, one at a time, and then we read what it says to do together. We have little scraps of paper and several pencils in a container labeled "Cube It" we just use them then. 

We are currently using this with 5th and 6th graders. 

For list words that tell about it, we have them write a phrase using as many words as they are old. We pick a topic that we learned about that day. We learned about bears one day, so that was our topic. The following day we talked about Razzle Dazzle words. That is what I call our Expand your vocabulary words.

1- describe it out loud

2- sketch it

3-List words to tell about it  

4- Tell us what is good and bad about it

5- Compare it...

what is it like?

What is it different from?

6- Connect it...

What does it make you think of? Why?

Our schedule

8:00 Arrival/ homework check-in / Book shop

8:15 Daily’s

CAFE Strategy

8:20 Rotation 1: Read to Self

8:40 Reading Response Journal- following the rubric

8:50 CAFE Strategy

9:00 Rotation 2: Word Work (A day):

Work on Writing (B day)

9:20 Building Words lesson

9:45 5 minute timed writing

10:00 Recess

10:15 Snack/ read aloud

10:30 Math Reaching for the Stars

10:40 Mini lesson

10:50 Practice

11:10 Razzle dazzle Words

11:30 Cube It

11:45 Dismissal