Investigations First Grade Pacing Guide
I am still trying to recover from our whirlwind “vacation”. We travel to Indiana every year to visit our family for the 4th and for the last couple of years our annual trip to the Midwest has coincided with the National SDE conferences in Vegas. This year we flew to Indiana and stayed for a few days.
Then the WHOLE family drove up to Michigan where my brother & sister-in-law live. We spent a few days there celebrating the 4th (an annual family tradition) and then my husband and I flew to Vegas from Michigan and left the kids with grandma and grandpaCamp Carroll 🙂 We stayed in Vegas for 7 days and then flew back to Michigan. As soon as we landed we drove back to Indiana, stayed the night with grandma and grandpa, enjoyed a family picnic the next day, and then flew back to Houston that night. I met so many AMAZING people in Vegas.
There are so many inspiring educators and I love being able to talk to so many of them about the great things going on in their classrooms. One of the conversations I had with a few of the teachers I met was all about pacing and planning. I’m a firm believer in starting with the end in mind and the best way to do that is to sit down and figure out your year. Identify where you need to start and where your kids will need to finish. This will determine your course for the year. I organize my year with a yearlong pacing calendar.
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I know many districts provide a yearlong pacing/planning calendar. I know many do not. I’ve taught in districts with both scenarios and let me tell youit’s SO much easier to have a pacing guide with which to work!! I went ahead and mapped out my year in both Kindergarten and First Grade so you can see what my year looks like and how I.attempt. to fit it all in. While I know these pacing calendars may not work for many of you, I’m hoping they.might.
help someespecially those of you without the luxury of a yearlong planner. I love being able to glance at my year in an easy-to-read format. It helps me to plan and prep materials in advance which makes me look like I’m organized (although I’m FAR from it, haha!!). I keep a copy of my pacing guide on my desk (where I sit to create activities for my kids) and in my planning binder. I take my planning binder to team meetings and bring it home with me and I always like to have a copy with me for those just in case moments 🙂 Here’s how I format the plans so that I can see all the “big ideas” for the month on one little sheet. Cara, It was so great to see you and Erica Bohrer @ SDE and the TpT conferences. I just love both of your products and blogs.
I felt like a stalker because every time I turned around you and Erica were there. I hope you know that you are in my prayers that you continue to bless children and teachers around the world utilizing your God given talents. Continue to serve and keep him first in your life and his favor will continue to shine upon your life. As my mom use to always tell me, keep sweet! Your Fan in So Cal! Thank you so much for this post Cara!
First Grade Pacing Guide
It was like you read my mind! My district recently gave myself and two of my co-workers the task of completely revamping our math pacing guide and moving away from our math series to more of an exploratory math group approach (Yay!). We just met the other day and it was hard to combine two different schools of thought when some were still stuck in their 'old ways.' I'm going to share your first grade pacing guide with my colleagues in hopes that it will give us a good jumping off point for creating ours. Thanks again, and I'm so glad I was able to meet you in Vegas!
Investigations First Grade Pacing Guide Common Core
You are the best!