Happy Schedulin’ Sunday! This week we’re reading A Crankenstein Valentine to work on character traits and continuing Vowel Bootcamp! We’re also starting to learn about number bonds and decomposing numbers and celebrating Valentine’s Day!
Decomposing Numbers Lesson Plans
Here are our lesson plans for the week! Simply click the image to download our lesson plans for Decomposing Numbers, teeth, A Crankenstein Valentine and more!
AND….our lesson plans are now clickable! You can click on any book or resource and go directly to that creation or book!
Teeth Research Project
This week we are learning about teeth with our Teeth Research Project. For this research project, we make a schema map and tree maps about teeth, dentists and the tooth fairy! And we write about each of those using our graphic organizers!
We’re also using our Show Me Your Teeth for math and literacy centers!
As part of our teeth research project, we create a smile board to see if students can identify themselves and their friends based on just the smile!
Vowel Bootcamp
Then we are continuing Vowel Bootcamp! Our focus is on CVC-E words. We do one vowel a week. Monday is a circle chart, Tuesday is word building, Wednesday is word writing in whole group using whiteboards. Thursday the students do word writing on their own. Friday students do a word/picture match.
For small group work, we use our Vowel Bootcamp decodable readers!
For more on Vowel Bootcamp, including videos of Vowel Bootcamp in action, check out this post:
Read It Up: A Crankenstein Valentine
This week we are reading A Crankenstein Valentine and using Read It Up! A Crankenstein Valentine. We’re focusing on character traits, how characters change and making connections. We will do a story map, and write about what makes us cranky!
For more February and Valentine’s Day read-alouds, check out this post:
For more on our Read It Up! comprehension resources, check out this post:
Math: Decomposing Numbers
This week we’re starting to work on decomposing numbers with number bonds using Math It Up: Number Bonds.
To introduce decomposing numbers and number bonds, we always start with our giant number bonds on the floor lesson! This is a great introductory activity that always helps the kids solidify their understanding of the concept!
We make a giant number bond on the floor with a Sharpie. The students become the manipulatives and we move our bodies to practice decomposing numbers.
Then we move to working on number bonds independently using our giant number bonds.
For more lessons and ideas for number bonds and decomposing numbers, including videos of our number bonds lessons in action, check out this post:
Valentine’s Day
This week is, of course, Valentine’s Day so we’re celebrating with a party on Friday and some fun art projects this week!
We also do a fun Valentine’s Day STEM project where the kids work in pairs to make the tallest tower of candy hearts!
Foodie Fun Friday And Mad Science Thursday
Mad Science Thursday will actually be on Friday this week because we’re making Love Potion as part of our Valentine’s Day party!
To get the recipe, visit One Sharp Bunch.
For more hands-on science experiments, check out our Mad Scientists Creation!
FREE Poem And Emergent Reader
These are the creations we are using this week:
