Deak Curriculum Timeline

8:20-9:00

9:00-9:30

9:30-10:00

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:15

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Writers
Workshop
-Read Its
Not Fair! by
Amy Krouse
Rosenthal
-Intro
Perspective
: what does it
mean? Write
on large
paper to stay
displayed
-Talking
about how
each person
felt on each
page and why
they felt that
way and
make a chart
showing

Journal

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

M
3/23

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TRIP ZOO

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ZOO

T
3/24

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Word Work

Writers
Workshop
-Re-visit
perspective
sheet
-Read 3 Little
Pigs
-Talk about how

Journal

Readers
Workshop

F
3/20

11:1512:00
Lunch
Recess

12:00-12:45

12:45-1:30

*Science Prep

Math
-Talking about
birds eye
view
-Make map of
your room
-Share &
discuss what is
bigger/smaller,
biggest/smalle
st,
similarities/dif
ferences in
room

FIELD
TRIP
ZOO

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TRIP
ZOO

Lunch
Recess

Library Visit

Math
-Observe
classroom
from different
angles
-Discuss what
saw, what to
put in our

Recess/
Snack

*Write about a
time something
wasnt fair for
you

*How would
you feel if you
were one of the
3 Little Pigs?

1:302:15
Recess/
Snack

2:152:50/3:00
Social
Studies
-Talk about
our daily
routines
-Write our
class routine
together for
Mondays
-Each
student
writes out
schedule
using First,
Next, Then,
and Last
-Intro that
we will look
at Mondays
from 2 other
perspectives
(8th grade,
principal)
FIELD TRIP
- ZOO

*Music Prep

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W
3/25

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Word Work

pigs felt : what

is their
perspective?
Why do they feel
this way?
- Write this on
cut out of three
pigs and hang
next to
perspective
mind map.
Writers
Workshop
-Re-visit
perspective
sheet
-Read The
True Story of
the Three Little
Pigs by Jon
Scieszka
-Talk about how
the wolf feels :
what is his
perspective?
Why does he feel
this way?
- Write these
ideas on a cut
out of a wolf to
hang next to
perspective
mind map

class map,
what is
biggest/smalle
st,
bigger/smaller

Journal
*What do you
think about the
wolf now?

*RAD

Lunch
Recess

Math
-Create own
foot-long rulers
with inches
-Practice
measuring
-Take photo of
view from my
seat

*Music Prep

Recess/
Snack

*Spanish

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Th
3/26

F
3/27

M
4/6

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Word Work

*Art Prep

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Journal

*RAD

8:20-9:00

9:00-9:30

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Word Work

Journal

Readers
Workshop

Lunch
Recess

Math
-Measure items
in classroom and
record
information to
nearest half-foot
(revisit
estimating)
-Talk about
making items to
scale

Science
-Intro to life
cycle of
butterfly
-Read
Waiting for
Wings by
Lois Elhert
-KWL chart
on butterflies

Recess/
Snack

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

Lunch
Recess

*Science Prep

Math
-Talk about
scale
-Make items
in classroom

Recess/
Snack

9:30-10:00

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:15

12:00-12:45

12:45-1:30

Writers
Workshop
-Review both 3
Little Pigs
stories and
perspectives of
pigs vs wolf.
-Come up with
reasons why
pigs are guilty

Journal

Readers
Workshop
*RAD

11:1512:00
Lunch
Recess

Math
-Draw view
from my seat

Science
-Discuss
making
observations
-What are
observations
about self?
Partner?
-Make
observations

1:302:15
*Gym
Prep

*Choice time

*Why did you

pick the side
you did?

Social
Studies
-Discuss how
different
people in
school have a
schedules,
but different
than ours
-Make up
interview
questions
together to
find out
about
schedules
-Practice by
interviewing
each other
Social
Studies
-Interview 8th
graders on
their
schedules in
groups of 3
2:15-2:50/3:00
Recess/Snack

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T
4/7

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Word Work

and why wolf is

guilty
-Students pick
which side they
agree with and
write 3 reasons
why picked that
side
-Students make
a puppet of
either a pig or
wolf with
reasons glued to
puppet
Writers
Workshop
Split students in
to smaller
groups of
wolves and
pigs, look at
each reasoning
for why agree
with that group
and talk about
why the other is
guilty
-Hold minidebates between
each set of
groups with
teacher as
moderator
-Have all
students vote in
the end who
they think was
guilty

of caterpillars
in current
state with
eyes, then with
magnifying
glass
-Write and
draw
observations

Journal
*Why did you
vote the way
you did?

Readers
Workshop

Lunch
Recess

Library Visit

Math
-Write view
from my seat
(From my seat
I see I do
not see)

Recess/
Snack

*Music Prep

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W
4/8

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Writers
Workshop
-Revisit
perspective
chart
-Revisit 3
Little Pigs
and The
Real
Story
- Talk about
how we
needed to
look at all
sides before
making a
decision, and
found two
sides can be
right at the
same time
-Good
authors can
write from a
different
perspective,
have another
perspective
on this story
-Read 3
Little Wolves
and the Big
Bad Pig by
Eugene
Trivizas

Journal
*Which 3 Little
Pigs perspective
did you like best?
Why did you like
seeing the story
from that
perspective?

Social Studies
-Interview
principal on
his schedule

*RAD
Lunch @
11am

Lunch
@
11am
Music

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Th
4/9

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Word Work

*Art

Journal

Readers
Workshop

Lunch
Recess

*Choice time

Math
-Place items on
large map
-Write names on
seats

Science
-Discuss
similarities
and
differences
between seeing
with eyes vs
magnifying
glass
- Interview

Recess/
Snack

Social Studies
-Discuss
similarities/dif
ferences
between our
schedule, 8th
graders, and
principal
-Talk about
how all of
these things
are happening
at the same
time
- Draw a
picture of one
time and what
each group is
doing at that
time
-Write one
thing that is
the same for
all and one
thing that is
different.

Recess/
Snack

Science
-Revisit KWL
chart and see
what learned,
what still want
to learn
-Connect what
we learned to
having a new
perspective/kn
owledge
-Complete a
life cycle of a

partners to
see what they
saw.
-Discuss
similarities
and
differences
between what
you saw and
what partner
saw
-Would you
change
anything after
talking to your
partner?
F
4/10

*Pick Up
*Calendar
*Weather
*Morning
Meeting

Journal
*Re-visit
journal on a
time when
something
wasnt fair.
What did the
other people
involved
think?

*RAD

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

Lunch
Recess

*Science Prep

Math
-Discuss
similarities/dif
ferences of
view from my
seat
-Discuss how
no one person
had whole
view : only get
whole picture
with all of our
views together

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(like a puzzle)
-Give each
student one
piece of class
map and
sticky tack
and have them
work together
to put it back
together
-Display map
with string
pointing to
each students
seat and
drawing of
view/photo
there

KEY
Part of Unit
Lunch/Recess/Specials
Part of classroom schedule

butterfly
wheel color,
cut and paste
activity