Activities for Substitute Teacher
Revised October 14, 2017
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Grades PreK-Kindergarten
Kindergarten - 9:05-9:40 There is a five minute break between the morning classes. PreK - 9:45-10:20 Use the lesson for both classes. 1. Have the students enter through the door nearest the lunchroom. 2. Seat them on the floor in front of the Smartboard. 3. Ask them if they have seen jack o’ lanterns and pumpkins. Discuss the similarities and differences. Show the videos. This first story is about how a pumpkin is planted, grows and becomes a jack-o-lantern. Watch the video and talk about what happened. The second story is a fiction story about a square pumpkin. Compare the two stories. a. It’s Pumpkin Time (Click on this link and then click on Full Screen.) Length: 4:16 b. Spookley the Square Pumpkin Length: 4:21 Note: IF YOU SELECT THE GAMES BELOW AND THEY DON’T OPEN, CLICK ON ACTIVATE ADOBE FLASH (in the middle of the page) and then select ALLOW NOW (in top left hand corner). 4. If you have time, you can do one or both of the following activities. a. Click on this link, Make a Pumpkin, and have the students come up to the Smartboard in small groups to decorate the pumpkins. (Click on the categories to the left and they can drag the pictures to the pumpkins.) The shorter students may have to stand on the crates. b. Click on this link, Pumpkin Match Game, and the students can come up in twos to make the matches. |
When you finish with PreK, you will go to King School. You may be asked to do lunch duty for the first lunch. The class schedule is on the whiteboard in KIng's LRC. If you open the Firefox web browser, my website will open. Your first class at King will be at 12:00.
Grades 1 and 2
Grade 1 - 12:00-12:35 Grade 2 - 12:35-1:10 1. Have students enter through the back door (by the computer lab. 2. Seat them at the tables near the Smart Board. (They can sit on the floor to watch the video.) 3. Show both stories if you have time. You can stop between stories to discuss. (Click on the link sand then click on Full Screen.) a. Show The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Treat. (7:52) b. Show The Berenstain Bears: Trick or Treat Length: 11:31 4. This video shows two Berenstain Bears’ videos You may pause between each video and discuss or play straight through. 5. If you have time, with the students. Go to Find the Number. The students can come up to the Smartboard in small groups and see how many numbers they can find in order. Time them or let them go from 1 to 68. 6. Students exit from the door in the front of the room (near the Smartboard). |
Grades 3 and 4
Grade 3 - 1:10-1:45 Grade 4 - 1:45-2:20 1. Have students enter through the back door (by the computer lab). 2. Seat them at the tables near the Smart Board. (Pull their chairs up or sit on the floor.) 3. Show Catch the Moon (Click on this link and then click on Full Screen.) Length: 13:44 4. This is a book about an African-American girl who wants to be a baseball player. Discuss the movie book. 5. If you have time, you can go to Math Baseball and they can play together the Smartboard or you can take them to the computer lab in the back. If they select Firefox, my website will pop up and I have a link to Math Baseball on my homepage. (If this is a Thursday, DO NOT let any grade go to the computer lab.) 6. Students exit from the door in the front of the room (near the Smartboard). |