It’s BAAAAACK! Schedulin Sunday returns from a two week spring break. It was a great two weeks…but honestly, I’m ready to get back to my ‘staches and rock our last 9 weeks together!!
Don’t forget…a whole bunch of people are having spring cleaning sales on TPT! Me included! 20% off all of my common core creations!
So, who’s ready to see what’s planned for our week?!?!
This week we are learning about fables, measuring by size and weight and talking about what happens in spring!
As always, you can grab a copy of my Common Core lesson plans by clicking the picture!
Reading/Literacy
These are the five fables we will read this week. I think each one teaches a great lesson that my ‘staches can benefit from!! Here’s hoping….
After reading each story, we will complete our fable comparison chart. We will identify the characters, setting, plot and the moral of the story.
After we read our first fable, we will create a fables anchor chart to refer to all week. We will add to the chart as we learn more about fables throughout the week. (I AM SUPER EXCITED BECAUSE I GET TO USE MY NEW SCENTOS MARKERS!!!!!!!)
We will make a circle map for Y words. We will learn 4 new sight words (read it, spell it, segment it, use it in a sentence!), we will practice blending words and we will read our poem and emergent reader!
When I saw this poem, I just thought it was perfect for spring! And really, aren’t we all glad that the horrible winter is over?! (Click the picture to download a copy!
Click here to get your free emergent reader!
For each fable, I found a cute little art project on Pinterest! Each day we will read a fable and complete the art project!
For these projects, I am going to give the ‘staches materials and guidance and let them go to town! For the turtles, we will be using square pieces of tissue paper!
This week in math, we will be learning about measuring things by size and weight!
We start off by ordering from smallest to biggest and biggest to smallest. We will use a collection of classroom materials and sort them by size. After we sort by size, we will do some independent practice with ants! Yes…ants…see how that ties into fables week?! BAM! Brilliance!
Click the picture to get your free ordering ants by size page!
We will also order ourselves by size! First, we will take a few minutes to make our face! Who doesn’t love kindergarten self portraits?! Then we will measure our friends using yarn. Once we are all measured and have our yarn, we will order ourselves from smallest to biggest. We will attach our yarn and self portrait to the wall!
We’re also measuring by weight! We will predict which of two objects will be heavier and then we will use a balance to find out which is heavier. We will record predictions and answers on our recording sheet!
Click for your free sheet!
We will also predict or estimate how many cubes our objects weigh. We will record our estimate and then we will add cubes to our balance to see how many it takes!
(click to download! This is in the same download as the other sheet!)
We will also do a little art project to assess our learning! We will make a picture of a balance. One side will be up and one side down. We will find two pictures in a magazine and glue them onto our balance! We must glue the objects on the right side of the balance!
Here’s a free assessment for sorting by long/short and heavy/light!
click on either picture to download!
We are also kicking off our addition and subtraction fluency tests! We’re starting off with 5 minutes for 25 problems. This week is all addition. We will track our progress each day!
Of course, we need a little science…and since Easter is coming up, why not some candy science?
My friend Marie over at The Hands On Teacher In First has this amazing Chocolate Science creation. OMG! This week we are using the candy sink and float activity!!! SO EXCITED!!!! Thanks for this awesome creation Marie!!
For Foodie Fun Friday we are making turtles! But not the chocolate turtle! APPLE TURTLES! Why not? Turtles…tortoise and the hare…it all ties in folks!!! Integration!
How cute?! I found these on Pinterest from Laugh With Us Blog! BRILLIANT! Apples, marshmallows and grapes!!!!
Of course we will also be rocking in our centers this week! We will be using centers from these creations:
AND I JUST FINISHED THIS!! I am super excited to start plants with the ‘staches soon!
120 pages of research goodness…labeling…KWL…thinking maps…writing…seed observation journal…art project…9 math and literacy centers…and it’s on sale for $4.50 for a few hours….but who wants to win it??
Just leave a comment with your favorite activity for plants or fables and I’ll choose a winner tomorrow!!! (Feel free to Pin and share it too!!)
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11 comments
I love the Flash Fluency idea. What a fun way to get all that math practice! It just got added to my TPT wishlist!
I need your energy!!! I am a new teacher, so I don't have a favorite plant or fable activity yet, but hoping to find one I really like:) There is so much to learn in the first year of teaching, I am just trying to keep my head on straight (those poor kids;)) You are the best Mr. Greg!
I love planting lima beans in Ziploc bags because they grow so quickly and we can see all the plant parts. It's a visual that really ties everything together for them!
Thank you so much for sharing your plans! It's nice to see another well-respected teacher doing things that I do…solidifies that what I'm doing is “good stuff!”
schoolteacherone@ec.rr.com
My favorite plant activity is growing marigolds from seeds early enough so that the kids can give them to their mothers/grandmothers for Mother's Day.
We have a beautiful garden on our campus and we love planting and watching our seeds sprout!
-Andrea
alwayskindergarten@gmail.com
I love teaching about plants!! One of my favorite activities is making Harry's Hair. We use styrofoam cups and place dirt/soil and grass seed in it. Then, we wait for the “hair” to grow (the grass) and on the front of the cup we have Harry's face. So then it looks like his hair! This year I took pictures of each kid and so it looked like it was their hair growing from the cup! What fun!! :). Thanks for sharing all of your fun activities. I love the measuring with yarn! Have a great week!
Kelsey 🙂
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I like planting marigolds with my students. My water helpers become the most popular job in my room. vhair61215@gmail.com
Oh, no! I love the Hairy Hair, too. We plant bird seed instead of grass seed, and it is always a surprise what comes up especially when the sunflower seed sprouts! But, another favorite plant activity: after reading, A Tiny Seed, I have the students make a plant with a long stem (18 inches or so) and then use tissue paper squares for the flower on top. We label the plant parts, too. It's so tall and so pretty!
Thanks for your ideas and sale. I'm going shopping.:)
jeanieb01@gmail.com
I'm so bummed I missed the sale for this plant research! Looks great!
Heather
hhigafunada@gmail.com
So i just bought your flash fluency packet. I know I had seen a picture somewhere of the graph you made for it for the hallway. Is there anyway you have more pictures?
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