It’s week 7 of kindergarten, and our weekly lesson plans and kindergarten activities are ready for ABC BOOTCAMP, comparing numbers, Last Stop On Market Street, American symbols, and so much more! Oh yeah…it’s also Friday the 13th this week so here we go!
Kindergarten Activities: Lesson Plans
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Kindergarten Activities: ABC BOOTCAMP
This week, we’re continuing ABC BOOTCAMP! The fun, the cutting skills, and the growth that we have with ABC BOOTCAMP make it a must-do! This week, we’re doing U, W, J, Q, and Y. We’re once again following the order of our required district curriculum.
We do a circle chart for each letter with explicit instructions for sounds and letters using a sounds-first approach. And we also provide 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 underwear, a woodpecker, Jeep, question and yoga!
Kindergarten Activities: 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 skill 3, which is hearing beginning sounds. We do a circle chart of pictures to identify beginning sounds. This is different from ABC BOOTCAMP because there is no written text.
Kindergarten Activities: Sight Words
This week we’re officially starting sight words in our classroom using our science of reading aligned resource: Sight Word 60! And yes, you can still teach sight words as long as you’re teaching students to decode the words, spell the words, write the words and read the words in context! We’re not teaching them to memorize words anymore
Here’s the routine:
Monday-introduce the words by segmenting the sounds, decoding the words, spelling the words and I use the word in a sentence.
Tuesday and Wednesday-review the words with segmenting and decoding the words, kids use the words in a sentence
Thursday-sight word: Students find and color the word!
Friday-we play a game to practice the words!
Kindergarten Activities: Last Stop On Market Street
This week we’re reading Last Stop On Market Street and using our Read It Up! resource to build comprehension skills.
This week, we’re working on collecting evidence and details, focusing on details in text and sharing our favorite part of the story!
For adding details, we draw a picture of CJ from the story and add details to the drawing!
One of my favorite kindergarten activities is to create a graffiti wall! This is a great comprehension activity for all parts of a story. You can use this for your favorite part of the story, what you see, what you hear, etc. I give students a small piece of paper and they draw their favorite part of the story. They share it with the class, and we add it to our graffiti wall! Fast and easy!
Kindergarten Activities: American Symbols
This week our social studies unit is all about American symbols. This week is the anniversary of September 11th. While we don’t teach about the events of that day, we spend the week learning about American symbols, and before this week, we learn about community helpers.
For each American symbol, we do a read aloud and create a graphic organizer. We also do an art project to represent each of the symbols. This week we’re learning about the flag, Statue Of Liberty, White House and Liberty Bell!
Kindergarten Activities: Comparing Numbers
This week our curriculum has a five-lesson “unit” on comparing numbers to 10. We’ve taken the curriculum activities and made them into something more hands-on, not just looking at slides! I’m adding these activities to our Math It Up! comparing numbers resource.
Here’s what we have planned:
Day 1- Stickers! Each student will get a sheet of stickers and a recording sheet. They will put their stickers on their sheet. They will find a partner and discuss who has more or less. At the end of the lesson, they will write how many stickers.
Day 2-S’mores! We will use pretzel sticks and mini marshmallows to talk about 1 more and 1 less. The idea is to put a number of marshmallows on the pretzel stick. Then we will add 1 or remove 1 to make more or less.
Day 3-Number Battle! Students will work in pairs to play the card game “war”! The cards will have objects on them instead of numbers! They will talk about who has more and less!
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 sensory bin!
Weekly Lesson Plans: Foodie Fun Friday
This week, we will be making a version of our American flag snack!
We will be modifying this to use a graham cracker, white frosting, blueberries and strawberries!
Kindergarten Activities: Morning Meeting
This week, our greeting will be the “Hit The Floor!” We chant: “1, 2, 3, 4 hit the floor….” and the student jumps on the trampoline!
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WEEKLY RESOURCES
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