Week 35 kindergarten lesson plans are all about subtraction for kindergarten, ocean animals, vowels with Vowel boot camp, Dragons Love Tacos, Backwards boot camp, and more! Let us help make planning for your week a little easier with our classroom-proven lessons, activities, and resources!
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans: TKS BOOTCAMP
We follow a required foundational skills curriculum and supplement it with our TKS BOOTCAMP resource, especially for extra practice and small group work! We are moving onto CVC-E words with our Vowel Bootcamp! Our TKS BOOTCAMP curriculum works with ALL curriculums or as a stand-alone resource! This week we are focusing on blending and decoding words, writing words, reading decodables, and lots of word chaining!
We do circle charts to segment, spell, and read words.
The students also do writing and word matching!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Phonics: Word Mapping
We will also use our Word Mapping mats during this time to work on our segmenting, spelling, and reading words! These have been a true game changer for my kids, especially those struggling with segmenting sounds and spelling words!
We’re also using our Digital Word Building Resource to do word chaining to work on blending CVC words!
We also used our glitter letters clipart to make glitter letter cards, and we’ve been using these cards in whole groups and small groups. The kids LOVE them! (This is CLIPART. You must insert the letter clipart into a document to make letter cards!)
This week, we will also be feeding the dragon! We write words on tacos. I will say the sounds; students will orally blend the word, write the word, and find the taco. They “feed” the dragon the taco by sticking the taco on the board!
Sight Word 60
We have introduced all 50 words that appear on our upcoming benchmark assessment, so this week, I will asses students using ESGI, and we will use that data to practice words we’re still struggling to master!
ANIMALS IN KINDERGARTEN: OCEAN ANIMALS
We’re kicking off our big animal project for the next few weeks. We will learn about animals, animal habitats, and adaptations and hopefully keep the kids engaged during the last few weeks of school! This week, our animals in kindergarten will be ocean animals, and we’re using our Ocean Animals Research Project!
This week, we’re learning about sharks, jellyfish, octopuses and crabs! For each animal, we do our research with read-alouds and videos. We record what we learned about graphic organizers during the read-aloud!
Students will then use the graphic organizers to write about animals. Students record their writing in their research journals. They can write on their own, copy the graphic organizer or a combination of both!
Animals For Kindergarten: Labeling
To build vocabulary and focus on animal adaptations, we use labeling. As we label the animals we discuss how the parts help the animals adapt to survival in their habitats!
Animals In Kindergarten: Art
For each ocean animal, we do an art project of the animal!
SUBTRACTION FOR KINDERGARTEN: Get off My Boat
Our district has adopted a new math curriculum (AGAIN!), so we’re trying to figure it out because it’s a lot, and it’s not aligned with our state standards, so there’s that. We’re using the curriculum and supplementing it with our MATH IT UP! and TKS BOOTCAMP curriculums.
This week, we’re working on subtraction! Our subtraction for kindergarten will be with boats and cars! We will get off my boat to subtract and we will drive some cars!
Our most effective and most fun subtraction for kindergarten activity is getting off my boat. Make a giant boat on the floor. Put some students on the boat, and make some students get off! Subtraction!
Then, we will add in equations and independent practice!
Subtraction For Kindergarten: Subtracting Cars
We will also be subtracting cars to practice subtraction for kindergarten!
We will use ten frames to subtract, park cars in the garage, and drive cars on the road to practice subtraction! All of these are hands-on activities using toy cars! Students will be reading, writing, solving equations, and building subtraction fluency!
Dragons Love Tacos
This week we’re also going to read Dragons Love Tacos! Monday is Dragon Day in our class, so we’re doing Dragons Love Tacos activities all day!
We will tell the story, graph our favorite kind of taco, and draw a dragon!
And of course we eat tacos!
Hit The Floor Greeting: Morning Meeting
This week, our greeting is a taco greeting. I will put the kid’s pictures inside a paper taco. We choose a taco and greet our friend!
For our activity, we’re going to play I Have Who Has! We’re introducing the game this week so we will be playing I Have Who Has Sounds!
Backwards Bootcamp
Backwards Bootcamp continues this week with:
M-mustaches
L-lollipops
K-kings
J-wear jeans
I-ice cream
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