Categories Classroom Management, S.T.E.A.M., Social Studies, Weekly Lesson Plans

Holidays Around The World: Schedulin’ Sunday

Happy Schedulin’ Sunday! This week we are continuing Holidays Around The World! We are hopping on Air Smorgie and jetting around the world for Christmas Around The World! Plus we’re continuing the next component of the TKS Bootcamp curriculum, Blends Bootcamp. In math, we’re working on subtraction tasks and story problems!

Lesson Plans For Holidays Around The World, Blends and Digraphs and Subtraction

Here are our lesson plans for Christmas Around The World, subtraction and digraphs! Click the image to download my lesson plans!

Morning Meeting

This week our morning greeting is a Sight Word Greeting! This is a simple greeting where we target our sight word instruction.

You can find all of the details in our Morning Meeting Greeting Resource.

Our morning meeting activity this week is Quiz Quiz Trade. This week we will be reviewing numbers!

You can find our Quiz Quiz Trade resource here!

Blends BOOTCAMP

This week we are continuing Blends BOOTCAMP! This week we are starting with digraph SH and we will spend all week on this digraph. We will do a digraph a week and then we move to blends after Christmas break.

As with all components of TKS Bootcamp, we start with the circle chart. Then we will work on building and writing TH words. We will also sort TH and F words. During small groups, we’re using the Word Family Bootcamp Decodable readers to work on our decoding and blending skills! These books have been a huge hit with the kids and have really boosted their confidence in reading and writing words!

For more on Blends Bootcamp, check out the brand new TKS BOOTCAMP website!

For more blends and digraphs practice, check out our What Does The Fox Say Blends Edition!

Holidays Around The World Research Project

We continue our adventure around the world as we learn how other cultures and countries celebrate Christmas Around The World and Holidays Around The World. People, this is my MOST FAVORITE research project of the year. It is a must do. We cover social studies standards, research and writing standards. We learn languages and taste foods and do art. AND we stay engaged right up until Christmas break! SCORE!

Each child completes their research journal as we visit each country. But to visit each country, you need an airplane. Our airplane is Air Smorgie. And it looks like Google Earth. We fly from our school to each country before we can learn about that country. And, this is so important, you have to fly home at the end of the day.

And we all know you can’t board the plane without a passport and airline ticket! Each day every child receives an airline ticket with their name, their seat assignment and the country we’re visiting. We color and stamp our passports as well. (These are all included in our Holidays Around The World creation!)

For each country we do a read aloud that relates to that country. This is not necessarily an informational text. After the read aloud we view an informational PowerPoint about the country that is full of facts and information. We use that information to complete our graphic organizer and write in our research journal.