It’s week 4 of kindergarten, and our weekly kindergarten lesson plans are ready for ABC BOOTCAMP, sorting and comparing numbers, families and the five senses, and so much more! This week is all about procedures, routines, and relationships, so we will have lots of fun while learning!
So here’s what we have planned for week 4 of kindergarten!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans For ABC BOOTCAMP
This week we’re continuing ABC BOOTCAMP! The fun, the cutting skills, and the growth that we have with ABC BOOTCAMP are what make it a must-do! This week, we’re doing S F V Z P. We’re once again following the order of our required district curriculum.
For each letter, we do a circle chart, which is explicit instruction in sounds and letters using a sounds-first approach. We do explicit handwriting instruction. We also make a hat to build phonemic awareness and vocabulary while practicing cutting skills.
For handwriting, I explicitly model how to form each letter, and students practice independently!
We also practice writing the letter during our morning message!
And, of course, we make our ABC BOOTCAMP hats! This week, we’re making a sock, a fire, a zipper, a vampire and a pumpkin!
Weekly Lesson Plans: Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp
This week we also continue Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp! Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp is all about hearing the sounds and the oral language. We start with sentences and work our day down to sounds in words, segmenting etc. This research-based resource is designed for each lesson to take about 10 minutes, and then we move to ABC BOOTCAMP, which has explicit phonics and combines sounds and letters. This week in Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp, we’re working on breaking sentences into words. We will be counting the words in sentences using our bodies and sticky notes.
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Five Senses
This week we’re continuing our Five Senses Research Project! This is part of our required district curriculum, but we try to add our own spin to make it more fun and appropriate. We’re using our Five Senses Research project!
This week we’re reading My Five Senses by Aliki We’re doing an evidence organizer and some sensory jars!
The sensory jars are from our curriculum but the curriculum used maybe four or five pictures and they’re black and white. We love this activity so we made it way better and more engaging. We use real photographs and decide if we can use our sense for that item. Then we use describing words for that sense.
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Families
This week our social studies unit is all about families! We’re learning about different families and sharing all about our families!
This week we’re sharing what our families like to do, where we live, how many people are in our families and talking about pets!
And we end the week making handprints! Why handprints? Because they’re unique just like us and our families! And they’re a simple and cute display for this week’s open house!
Weekly Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Sorting, Counting And Comparing
This week we’re continuing Number Bootcamp with numbers 13-17
This week our cucciulum has a five lesson “unit” on sorting. The idea is to sort objects, count how many objects are in each group and discuss which one has more or less. After doing this unit last week, I’ve decided to take the skills and standards and create a Math It Up! resource. Why? My kids struggled with aspects of this unit last year and I feel like we can teach it more effectively using more appropriate, explicit instruction and lessons. Stay tuned for the finished product and the results of our lessons!
Here’s what we have planned:
Day 1-breakfast sort. Students will pick a breakfast food from a bag and sort the foods. We will then count and compare how many of each we have. We will compare the groups and discuss how we sorted the food.
Day 2-junk sort- We will sort a bunch of objects by size, color, use, etc. We will count and compare the groups.
Day 3- Rainbow sort-we will sort objects by color. We will compare the groups. Students will then make their own rainbow sort by coloring pictures and gluing them to their rainbow!
Day 4 and Day 5 Would you rather! We will ask would you rather questions and students will sort themselves into the answers. We will count and compare each group!
Introducing Centers
This week, we are continuing to introduce and practice centers! We started with our literacy tubs, and this week, we will introduce the room and library to the students. I’ll introduce Write the Room to the students who I think are ready for it this week, and I’ll add additional students over the next few weeks. The library will be introduced to everyone.
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Foodie Fun Friday
This week, we will be making popcorn! We use an air popper and let the popcorn spray all over the floor! I put down the paper and the popcorn flies! Kids love it! Then, we use our five senses to describe the popcorn!
Weekly Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Morning Meeting
This week our greeting will be a ball greeting. We greet one another and roll the ball to each other!
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WEEKLY RESOURCES
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