Lesson Plans 
Mrs. Angela Duncan 
First Grade  
Dunbar Primary 
Week 29   
Library Time: Monday-9:45-11:25 
Mrs. Duncan’s Ducklings   
Reading Comprehension:   Science Lab Time:  
Realistic Fiction 
Retelling the Events of a Story 
Determining Importance 
 

March 25-29, 
     
2019 
 

         
  Morning Message Morning Message Morning Message Morning Message Morning Message
Morning  Welcome Songs Welcome Songs Welcome Songs Welcome Songs Welcome Songs
Meeting 
 
Calendar Activities Calendar Activities Calendar Activities Calendar Activities Calendar Activities
Connected  Problem Solving Problem Solving Problem Solving Problem Solving Problem Solving
and 
Respected  HF words: 
7:40-8:05  :​ over, new,
 
sounds, take, only  Sight word practice Sight word practice Sight word practice Sight word practice
Connected Review all of  What Was Are All
and the first 100 
Respected sight words  Morning Message Morning Message Morning Message Morning Message
 
 
**introduce all *send message *send message home *send message home *send message
new words and home with with teacher’s helper with teacher’s helper home with teacher’s
review previous teacher’s helper each day each day helper each day
week each day
 Reading 
Lab Pullout 
Work on Writing: HF words:   sight word spin  roll and read  sight word cloze 
Block Reading  St. Patrick’s Day review the first  and graph  sight word races  activity 
Groups   *Thank you notes 100 words
8:05-9:10  sight word cloze 
*making a list
Daily 5 
*labeling assessment 
Rotation 1 
8:05-8:20  *story starters  
   *sentences
Reading  *sent. Tune ups
Intervention 

8:20-8:35  Contraction  Sort and match  Putting contractions in  Contraction sentence  Contraction 
  contractions  ABC order  hunt. Highlight  Crocodile Pie and 
Daily 5  Crocodile  contractions and read 
activity 
Rotation 2  Story  for fluency. 
 
reading 
intervention 

8:35-8:50  Introduce spelling         

  words  spelling marker  spin and graph  sparkle spelling  spelling word test 
Daily 5  fuse, mute, tube,  boards 
Rotation 3  fume, nine, bite, 
smile, hide, slide, 
tune 

8:50-9:10  Listening and March QR code     

  listening and  Practice blending by sliding   
Responding to counters 
Daily 5  response   
Rotation 4 
Literature:   Sight Word 
Work with students to **Teacher pulls groups  Assessments  Sight Word 
review Neuhaus throughout Daily 5  Assessments 
concepts of: Rotations 
Sight words and
suffixes
Green deck practice -
sound boxes
Begin to create a
“sound” wall or chart
for ref.
 Daily 5  Istation:
Rotation 5  New skills in the
  backpack
9:10-9:30 

Reading  Piggie Pie  Piggie Pie  Piggie Pie  Comprehension  Reading 

Comp.  CPQ: What problem  Retell story with a  Write about what you  passages   Comprehension 
Strategies  does Gritch have  buddy. Write about  think will happen  *finding evidence in the  Assessment 
9:30-9:55  when she tries to  your favorite part  when Gritch and the  passage 
make piggie pie? 
of the story.  Wolf get to her house. 
CSPS 

  Go to portable       
 
PE/Music  to Mr. Cates 
Conference  first daily! 
9:55-10:45 
 

  Objects in the sky  objects in the Sky  Lesson 2  Lesson 3  Making stars shine. 
Science and  video  High in the Sky  Cloud time  How Does the Sun  Black construction 
Social  Poem- Eye on the  Star fun  activity. 
Studies  Sky  pg, 36 
Moon and stars  seem to move 
  p. TR43  calendar  pg 38 
10:45-11:10  pg. 37 
 

  Decks  Decks  Decks  Decks  Decks 

Neuhaus  Lesson 1..56  Lesson 1.57  Lesson 1,58  Lesson 1.59  Lessons 1.60 
Phonics  Begin Syllable  Final stable  Final stable 
  syllable- cle 
Final stable  and 1.61 
Division VCCV  syllable-dle  syllable- fle  Final Stable 
11:10-1140  add #yourA# to 
Reading  irregular deck 
Add 3 words for  add three words  syllable-gle and 
Practice #84  Fluency Day- #24  reading practice 86  for reading  kle 
Add 6 words for  Hands  practice  Add 3 words for 
#84 &85 
87  reading 
practice 88 
 Oral   Unit 14   Unit 14  Unit 14  Unit 14 Activity 4  Teacher 
Language/  Activity 1  Activity 2  Retelling “Poison Ivy 
Vocabulary Naming  Describing  Activity 3 Listen  Choice 
/  to “Poison Ivy”  Class rewrites 
Sight Words 
 
the ending 
11:40-12:00 
 
 
 
 
 
 

       
TEKas   
Target   
Practice-Lo
Week 27 TEKas Week 27 TEKas Target Week 27 TEKas Target Week 27 TEKas Target Week 27 TEKas Target
neStar 
Learning  Target teacher models teacher models teacher models teacher models
&#less word  teacher models
Problems  #less word problem   #less word problem  #less word problem   #less word problem 
  #less word problem    
 
 
12:00-12:15 
 
Restroom 
break whole 
class 
 

         
Lunch 
12:10-12:40 
 

  *Sometimes       
RR/Recess  recess will be 
12:45-1:00 
at end of the 
day when work 
is complete. 
This depends 
on behavior 
and 
completion of 
work. 
   Rehearse and  Rehearse  Revise with  Revise with  Edit (2 days) 
  Draft  and   pictures or  pictures  9.4 Repeated 
Writer’s  Rereading to 
Workshop 
(2days)5.17 Line  Draft (2nd day)  words(2 days)  mentor text: The 
Breaks. pg 184  5.17 Line  7.1  Listening Walk  Check a Checklist 
1:00-1:30 
Use cinquain (  Breaks. p184  Onomatopoeia:  pg. 327 
a five-line    Sound effects pg.  This is teacher 
stanza)  262  led. Checklist 
can contain 
acrostic, or 
spacing, capitals, 
other poetry 
letter tI 
formats  penmanship 

  Counting sets of  Class store 11-5  Cont 11-5  Review Money  Topic 11 Test 
  coins with and  Use reasoning  continue class store   continue counting sets of 
Math Mini  without hairy  discuss items 4-sale  word problems with  coins 
Lesson  money.  in store and how  money 
1:30-1:45  they earn coins for 
purchasing 

→ → → → →
 
Math 
Rotations 
1:45-2:50 
   
(For this 
week, we will 
have 
PE/music/c
onf. During 
this time.) 
 
 

  ** Discuss Daily    **Try to start doing a

Pack Up  Duck  Come together  daily wrap up with skills
Dismissal 
2:50-3:00 
Notebooks  on rug and  review this week
  wrap up the  Math chat
** If the days day 
activities take longer
than expected -
math will take this
time**
  Math Chit Chat    DUCK notebooks go     
Notes:  or Message to  home daily. Passed 
  wrap up the day  out to students 
  during the end of 
da​Reading​:​.​y wrap up 
on rug. 

TEKS:
Reading​:.
1.14B - identify important facts or details in text, heard or read;
Fig. 19D – make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding
Fig. 19E – retell or act out important events in stories in logical order
Fig. 19F – make connections (text to self, text to text, text to world)

Writing​:
1.17 Edit drafts for grammar, punctuation and spelling using teacher developed rubric
1.7E Publish and share with others
1.9B Write shore letters that put everything in logical sequence and appropriate conventions
1.8B Write short poems that convey sensory details

Social Studies/Science
1.8 B observe and record changes in the appearance of objects in the sky such as the Moon, and stars, including the Sun.
1.8C identify characteristics of the seasons of the year and day and night.

Math
1.4A identify U.S. coins including pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters by value and describe the relationships between them
1.4B write a number with the cent symbol to describe the value of a coin
1.4C use relationships to count by twos, fives, and tens to determine the value of a collection of pennies, nickels and/or dimes

Phonics/Grammar
1.3H identify and read at least 100 high frequency words from a commonly used list
1.20A(vi) - pronouns (e.g., I, me);
1.3E - read base words with inflectional endings (e.g., plurals, past tenses)
1.6E - alphabetize a series of words to the first or second letter and use a dictionary to find words.
1.3F - use knowledge of the meaning of base words to identify and read common compound words (e.g., football, popcorn, daydream)
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Listening 2I Demonstrate listening comprehension by answering questions