Time Tuesday

8:30 - Morning Entry

8:40

8:40 - Sound of the Day Attendance

8:45 - The special student of the day would choose a letter sound.We would take attendance and
read out the children's names, and they would modify their names by removing the initial
letter and replacing it with the sound of the day. Such activity is a great way to practice
phonemic awareness in fun, engaging and exciting ways.
Activity from: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50232/

8:45 - Question of the Day

9:00 - Why do leaves change colour?
Activity from: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50270/

9:00 – Literacy Centres

10:00
1. Grocery Store
- This will be a teacher directed activity and take place at the Math Centre
- This activity falls under the concepts of print section of Stage 1
- Activity from: https://www.readingrockets.org/article/grocery-store-literacy-preschoolers
- Students will engage in playful learning but focus on print awareness by learning about the
letter “p,” as described in the Reading Rockets article.
- Play literacy centres, according to Balanced Literacy Diet, assist providing "hands-on literacy
practise" by blending varied literacy instruction in mixed group models (OISE, 2021).
- Reading Rockets reveals: "Their everyday, playful experiences by themselves do not make
most children readers. Rather they expose children to a variety of print experiences and the
processes of reading for real purposes” (Reading Rockets, 2007).
- This activity relies on curriculum expectations 1, 3, 9, 10 and 11.

2. Tracing Fall Letters

- Students will continue to trace fall letters but with a different worksheet that focuses on
lowercase letters.
- This will be done at the Writing Center and students will work independently on this activity.
- Worksheet: https://www.supplyme.com/products/free-printable-fall-themed-uppercase-and-
lowercase-alphabet-letter-tracing-worksheets-p7757
- This activity falls under the “spelling and word study” portion of the Balanced Literacy Diet
for Stage 0 (OISE, 2021).

3. Illustrate Your Answer

- Continuing with the activity from Monday, students will illustrate their answer to the
morning question: Why do leaves change colour?
- Activity comes from: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/00095/
- Students will use markers, pencil crayons, or crayons at the Art Centre
- This is an independent station.
- This will fall under the “letter-sound & phonics” as well as “writing conventions” portion of
the Balanced Literacy Diet for Stage 0 (OISE, 2021).

4. The Conversation Station

 - Students will meet at the Cozy Corner, right next to the library, and participate with the ECE
in a Conversation Station in a similar fashion to Monday, but with different
questions/prompts.
- Activity comes from: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/00160/
- This activity falls under the “oral language” and “vocabulary” section of the Balanced
Literacy Diet for Stage 0 (OISE, 2021).

10:00 Snack
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10:15

10:15
- Read Aloud
10:30 - This read aloud focuses on phonemic awareness and segmenting syllables
- As a class, we will read Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by David Ezra Stein.
- With its childlike main character and graceful illustrations, is a great way to teach the
youngest children about the changing seasons and more about leaves.  
- We will use a read-aloud format in which students are seated on the carpet and the teacher is
reading to them.
- As discussed in Classrooms That Work, “daily teacher read-alouds” gives students “a
successful start in building the foundation for literacy” (CTW, pg. 33, 2016). 
- Activity from: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/00115/

10:30 Free play at centres 

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11:15

11:15 Transition to lunch

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11:25

11:25 Lunch/recess
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11:55

11:55 Transition from lunch

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12:05

12:05 Carpet time

- - Once transitioned to the carpet, students will find a spot to sit and be lead through guided
12:25 meditation.
- This brain break will engage students in a focused, deep belly breathing meditation to
manage their attention and emotions for up to five minutes.
- As mentioned in Classroom that Works one of most important features of highly achieving
literacy classrooms is the classroom management (Cunningham & Allington, 2016). 
- Guided meditation link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ_wdeog5Ek

12:25 Transition to math

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12:30
12:30 Math Centers
- 1:15 - In groups of 4-5, students will rotate through math centres
- Each station will run for 10 minutes
- The ECE will monitor the class by walking around while the teacher is engaged in reading

1. Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews

- The teacher will read Ten Black Dots at the Math Center and discuss number-letter
association with the students

2. Free play with 2D magnetic shapes and 3D wooden blocks. 

- Students will work at the Art Center and use 3D wooden blocks/2D magnetic shapes to
engage with different materials in a free play environment
- This will be done independently

3. Block centre
- Students will be prompted to create a structure of their choosing at the block center. This will
act as a kinesthetic element and provide a break from academic math learning.
- This falls into the curriculum expectation 17 in which students are asked to manipulate three-
dimensional figures (OME, 17, 2016).

4. Sensory Play
- Students will engage with sensory play at the science inquiry table
- This will be filled with seasonally appropriate materials (i.e. pumpkins, seeds, leaves,
branches, etc.)
- Students will work independently at this station.

1:15 - Transition from math

1:25

1:25 - Read aloud

1:40
- Five Senses Story Reading
- Activity from: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/00089/
- Students will meet on the carpet to listen to this audio-read aloud
- This will engage students who are audiotory learners and students who enjoy watching a
story on the Smartboard rather than hearing the story from the teacher
- Link to story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5p-fuvUYBM
- After the story is heard, students will engage in the Five Senses Story Reading from the BLD
link above.
- This activity focuses on oral vocabulary and reading comprehension

1:40 - Transition from read aloud

1:45

1:45 - Snack
2:00

2:00 - Transition from snack

2:05 
2:05 - Music (transition to and from music)
2:45

2:45 - End of day

3:00