This week starts with Valentine’s Day and ends with family conferences! We’re also wrapping up our Olympics Research Project, reading Billy Goats Gruff, working on TH words with Blends Bootcamp, ING words, and comparing numbers! Also this week, we’re switching all of our center activities to teeth and March activities! I usually keep Valentine’s Day centers until the end of the month but this year I want to switch them so we can enjoy them longer!
Note: This year, my goal is to show you that you can use our TKS resources along with required curriculums and continue to have fun, so you’ll see that happening throughout the school year!
District Guidelines
- We are required to wear masks indoors but not at recess.
- We can have shared supplies and centers while maintaining 3 feet of distance when possible.
- We are keeping our enhanced cleaning procedures (wipe down surfaces throughout the day, steam sanitize the room daily, hand sanitizer/hand washing throughout the day, steam mop the floors daily, etc)
- I have added an air purifier to our classroom after reading the research from Johns Hopkins that these can help reduce the spread of Covid and other germs. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PURIFIER I ORDERED!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCMENT!
We’re having a SUPER SUNDAY Sale! Our TKS STORE and TPT store are all 20% off Sunday (2/13) and Monday (2/14)! No code needed! Just shop and save 20% on everything including bundles!
Lesson Plans
As always, you can download our weekly lesson plans by clicking on the image!
You can get our EDITABLE lesson plan template by clicking on the image below:
Blends BOOTCAMP
In keeping with the pacing of our foundational skills curriculum, we’re continuing Blends Bootcamp this week. Our mandated foundational skills curriculum adds blends to the decoding work we do, so we’re going to use Blends Bootcamp to support that work. We’re doing TH this week and working with sh and ch as well! We will do two days per digraph so day 1 will be a circle chart and day 2 will be word writing and decodable texts in small groups!
And yes, Blends Bootcamp and the entire TKS BOOTCAMP curriculum are aligned to the science of reading. And it has been from day 1 because that’s how I was taught to teach reading so it’s what I’ve always done!
King Of Ing
This week we’re also working with -ing words! We will be using our King Of Ing resource to build, read and write ing words!
Sight Word 60!
This week we are continuing Sight Word 60! After spending the summer learning more about the science of reading, we are continuing with Sight Word 60. We have always had decoding and encoding (writing) of the words as part of Sight Word 60 so we will continue that and will increase the amount of decoding and writing. We will also use orthographic mapping and we’re changing our order of sight words to align to the 109 most frequent words (even though we do 100 words…). You can learn all the details of how Sight Word 60 works on the linked blog post and you can get everything you need for Sight Word 60 in our Sight Word 60 creation!
Read It Up: Billy Goats Gruff
We are continuing with unit 2 of the required curriculum. This week we are using the text Three Billy Goats Gruff! I love fairy tales so I’m so excited to read this story this week! This week we are working on story maps, retelling with sequence words, and problem/solution!
We are also making a cute troll!
Winter Olympics Research Project
This week we are wrapping up our Winter Olympics Research Project! Ya’ll, I LOVE the Olympics. Summer. Winter. I love it all. I always make sure to include the Olympics in our classroom because we only get to do it every 2 years!
At the end of the week, we will complete our schema map and add our new learning. We have already learned so much from watching videos and competing in our Measurement Olympics! (You might notice a few repeats from last week because I was out for 2 days last week so we’re behind…)
Each day we will learn about a different sport. We will read a book about the sport, record our learning on our graphic organizer. Then we watch a video about the sport and write about it in our research journal!
Here are our Olympic read alouds! Click the image to see them on Amazon!
You can also compete in the Measurement Olympics! We did this last week and had a BLAST! It’s a must-do!
Valentine’s Day
Monday is Valentine’s Day so that means we’re celebrating and partying all day and learning a little too!
We will read A Crankenstein Valentine and talk about what makes us cranky! We will write and draw about what makes you cranky!
We will do a candy heart STEM challenge to see how tall we can stack our candy hearts. Students will work in pairs to build two towers and then compare the towers to determine which tower is the most!
We will make torn paper hearts! Torn paper is so good for fine motor skills so we’re trying to do all the torn paper projects!
We will also make Love Potion! This recipe is from One Sharp Bunch!
Math-Comparing Numbers
This week we’re continuing with comparing numbers! We’re using our Math It Up: Comparing Numbers creation! This week we’re working with the symbols and doing more independent work!
Then we move to more independent practice. We use our giant playing cards to deal and compare. Students take turns dealing two cards. We write the number and symbol. Then we use this same activity in small groups to provide extra practice!
If you need giant playing cards, you can find them on Amazon OR you can grab our Dealing With Math resource and print your own in color or blackline! And you get 13 easy-to-use math activities for small groups, whole groups, and centers!
Morning Meeting Greeting
This week our morning meeting greeting is our Olympic Torch greeting. I make a torch out of a paper towel tube. Students run around the circle, choose a friend to greet, and pass the torch!
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