Weekly Lesson
Plans
I thought I would give you a little glimpse into what I do
for lesson planning each year. My first
year of teaching I started by writing my lesson plans on a store bought lesson
plan book. When I realized how much work
it would be year after year writing and rewriting each week’s lesson plans I
decided to take things digital!
The thought of retyping lesson plans and starting from
scratch year after year makes me cringe.
So I save my lesson plans on my computer on a week by week basis. That way each year I can copy, paste, move,
add, delete, etc. instead of retyping.
Here is a look at what my lesson plan files look like saved on my
computer:
Displaying My Lesson Plans
2013-2014 Lesson
Plans
Thinking back to my first year teaching I remember how
helpful it would be just to see a first grade teacher’s weekly lesson
plans. I thought it would be so helpful
to see what lessons to teach, what time to teach them, etc. So I decided to upload my weekly lesson plans
here. Hopefully someone will find them
useful! J
(I will be adding the rest of my weekly lesson plans as the school year continues.)
Yearly Outline Curriculum Maps
The district that I work in provides teachers with a math
curriculum outline that lays out each weeks/days math lessons that are to be
taught at that time.
I saw how helpful it was to have a yearly look and
perspective on things. It helps to know
if you are on track, behind, or ahead of the game with your lessons. It was so helpful that I decided that I
needed to make my own Language Arts curriculum outline for each year. This week by week look into the curriculum really helps me coordinate my lessons together. I try to align certain lessons together. For example, my reading series story, phonics lessons, and spelling lessons are similar in what new skill is being introduced.
I usually work and prepare my curriculum outline map during
the summer months in preparation for the upcoming school year. It helps by giving me a general overview on
what I am teaching each week. It also
helps me stay on track with my lessons and make sure I get everything covered
each year.
When Common Core was implemented and I saw how much
writing was stressed I made my own writing lesson curriculum outline as well. You can view my writing curriculum and outline HERE.
I look at all my curriculum outlines each week as I type up
my weekly lesson plans to make sure I am on track and covering everything that
I need to! :)
Click HERE to download the lesson plan and curriculum outline maps on my TpT store!
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