​1) Top of the Charts:  Students will be brought to the carpet each morning with by a featured song.  This song will be based on the concepts we will be learning about in social studies or science.

2) The Date:  Students will record the date for our daily news in 3 ways.  i.e.       
Monday, July 25th, 2016.
                        Mon., Jul. 25, 2016.
                        25/07/16
While the volunteer is writing the date, the other students can sing:
Days of the Week Song
~Adam’s Family Tune~
                  There’s Sunday & there’s Monday
                  There’s Tuesday & there’s Wednesday
                  There’s Thursday & there’s Friday
                  And then there’s Saturday!
                  Days of the week-clap-clap
                  Days of the week-clap-clap
                  Days of the week
                  Days of the week
                  Days of the week-clap-clap!
 
Months of the Year Song:
                  January, February, March and April
                  May, June, July and August
                  September, October, November, December
                  Twelve months in the year!  Clap-clap
 
3) Breaking News: 
PART 1:  Students first read our message for content such as:

• Current events relevant to our classroom and school
• Problems the student have encountered in class or the playground and written to our Advice Column for help.  Here we have 2 students from our class use our classroom scripts to solve these problems peacefully.
• On Mondays the Students will be read their Happy Monday Messages during this time.

 PART 2:  Students use their knowledge of writing conventions to act as editors and proofread the morning message.

4) Toronto’s Daily Forecast:  Students will stick the corresponding weather icon onto a map of Toronto.  They will also record the temperature on our classroom thermometer, in a bar graph and line graph.

5) Lottery Numbers:

• Students will roll 2 class dice and add the total to our homemade thousands chart (i.e., if they roll 12 they will add 12 additional numbers). 
• They will be presented with 5 lottery numbers and asked to identify the pattern in the numbers (i.e., 122, 124, 126, 128, 130 =skip counting by 2s or 12, 24, 36, 48, 60=counting by 12).
• Students will use  the number of the day to complete an algebraic expression that incorporates addition, subtraction and number families (i.e., 134-[ ]=127     127+[ ]=134)
• Students will record the number of the day in its:
  • Standard Form:  245
  • Expanded Form: 200+40+5
  • Word Form:  Two hundred and forty-five

 6) Stock Report:  Here, one student each day will be able to purchase stocks from our classroom general store.  Students can earn money in the following ways
Classroom Payment:

• Co-Teaching a Lesson:  25 cents
• Reading their Work to the Class:  10 cents
• Being Reader of the Day:  10 cents
• Performing a Book Talk

                             10 cents-Book from Class
                             15 cents-Book from Home
                             20 cents-Library Book
                             25 cents-Homemade Book

• Being Nominated by a Peer as the Most Respectful Listener:  10 cents
• Completing a Bonus Homework Book (All personalized by level and interest):  $1.00

As a class we will subtract the amount of their purchase from the balance in their banks.  i.e., $2.25-$1.20= $1.05.  This amount is recorded using written numbers and concrete money manipulatives.)

7) Time:  Students will record the time we started reading our morning paper.  This will be presented as a time on the hour i.e., 9:00am at first.  The next step will be teaching the students how to count the minute hand by 5s i.e. 9:15am and finally how to add single minutes on top of this i.e., 9:17am.  We will also calculate the elapsed time that we finished our Daily News.

8) Radio Break:  Here students will sing and dance to the daily math song to help solidify a concept we are learning in class.  I.e. Counting by 2s or 3D shapes.

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