Welcome to week 16 of kindergarten, the start of 15 days of putting our classroom management skills to the test and using our kindergarten December lesson plans to keep kids engaged. 15 days to make learning gains, laugh, make memories, and 15 straight days of dress-up days! Keep reading to see what we have planned for this week!
Kindergarten December Lesson Plans: Lesson Plans
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Kindergarten Learning Activities: Word Family BOOTCAMP
This week, we’re continuing to work with CVC words using our Word Family Bootcamp, along with our required foundational skills curriculum. We’re continuing our focus on CVC words. This week will be all about decoding words, spelling words, and writing words. We will play games and do look alike words.
One of the tools we’re using in small groups are these word mapping mats. These are so effective at helping students read and write words. They also promote the mental process of orthographic mapping.
This week we’re also using our Digital Word Building tool! This is such a great way to word chaining and the kids LOVE it!
Kindergarten December 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. This research-based resource is designed for each lesson to take about 10 minutes. Then we move to Word Family BOOTCAMP, which has explicit phonics instruction focused on blending, decoding, spelling, and writing CVC Words.
This week in Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp, we’re starting on skill 5, which is middle sounds. This is such a difficult skill for students, and I’ve seen noticeable improvement in their ability to hear and spell the correct middle sounds! This week, we’re continuing the focus on middle sounds with a roller coaster ride! The students have roller coaster cars on popsicle sticks. We say a word and then the roller coaster goes up the hill while we say the first sound, at the top we stop and shake the car while saying the middle sound and down the hill for the final sound!
Kindergarten December Lesson Plan: Sight Words
This week, we’re continuing 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 teach students to decode, spell, write, and read the words in context! We’re not teaching them to memorize words anymore.
Here’s the routine:
Monday: I will introduce the words by segmenting the sounds, decoding the words, spelling them, and using 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 December Lesson Plans: The Year At Maple Hill Farm
This week, our required curriculum has us reading The Year At Maple Hill Farm. This book has lots of text and is heavy for kindergarteners. We don’t read all of the detailed text to help students understand the story. This week, we identify key details, sort clothing, and write about the seasons.
Kindergarten December Lesson Plans: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Spoon
This week, we’re also reading a December favorite: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Spoon. We will sequence the story and identify the parts of the story that are real and fantasy.
Kindergarten Lesson Plan Ideas: Decomposing Numbers And Number Bonds
This week, we’re wrapping up decomposing numbers. We’re bowling, we’re making towers and breaking them and finding missing numbers!
Students will write equations based on how many pins fall down and how many stand up!
Kindergarten December Lesson Plans: Holidays Around The World
December means it’s time for my favorite unit of the year. Hands down, I love this more than anything we do all year. I love the learning, the engagement, and how we incorporate so much from our students. And ya’ll, it’s fun—just fun, and that’s what we need!
Here’s how our trip around the world works: each day, we visit a country to learn about their traditions, we learn the language, we learn the food they eat, and we even locate the country on a map. We use Google Earth to find the country on the map. And we stamp our passports. We even get an airline ticket for the trip!
This week we’re visiting: Mexico, Australia, Italy and Japan. Next week, we will learn about Hannukkah, Ramadan, Diwali, and Kwanzaa.
For each country, we also do an art project! Here’s what we’re doing this week:
Kindergarten December Lesson Plans: Foodie Fun Friday
This week for Foodie Fun Friday we’re making a wreath using red and green tortilla chips!
Kindergarten Morning Meeting
This week our greeting is a new greeting. We’re going to pass the ornament. I found inflatable ornaments so we’re going to greet our friends and toss the ornament.
Our morning meeting activity is also passing the ornament. We’re going to pass a mini ornament using plastic spoons.
Kindergarten December Lesson Plans: FREEBIES
WEEKLY RESOURCES
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