Welcome to week 14 of kindergarten, which is another short week due to Veterans’ Day. Thank you to all of our veterans. We’re continuing unit 2 of our required curriculum and learning about farms, Thanksgiving, decomposing numbers, and more fun with our weekly lesson plans for kindergarten!
Weekly Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: 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. This week, we’re doing -ET and -ED words. We do two different word families a week, focusing on all three sounds in the word! We do circle charts, word chaining, and word writing, and we’re using decodable texts! Throughout the lessons, we’re saying the word, segmenting the sounds, mapping the sounds, spelling the words, decoding the words, and we’re writing the 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!
Weekly Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: 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. 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 skill is all about middle sounds. This is such a difficult skill for students so I’m excited to see how this helps my kids.
Weekly Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: 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!
Weekly Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Turkey Trouble
This week, we are doing all things Thanksgiving and turkeys! We’re reading the book Turkey Trouble and disguising a turkey!
We read the book and work on comprehension skills. We will do a story map and then we do a fun writing activity about what we would do as a turkey on Thanksgiving. The kids brainstorm what they would disguise themselves and what they would do to avoid being eaten for dinner1
The kids also write about their favorite pizzas!
Kindergarten Activities: Farms
This week we’re continuing the second unit of our required curriculum. We are using our Farms Research Project along with our required curriculum.
This week the focus is on using our evidence organizer to write about our favorite farm animal.
Weekly Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Decomposing Numbers
This week, we’re continuing to learn about decomposing numbers. Our curriculum moves a little slowly with this, focusing on decomposing a single number for two days. Eventually, we get to decomposing numbers to 10. This week’s goal is to learn how to make 8, 9, and 10.
This week, we’re using an octopus, a train, and a house to make 8, 9, and 10.
We will use the octopus to make 8. The tentacles are different colors so we manipulate them to show the ways to make 8. Then we make a graphic organizer to show all the ways to make 8. For 9, we’re using a train with red and yellow train cars. Then we will make our graphic organizer. For making 10, we’re using a turkey and turkey feathers to make 10. For all of these, we will also be writing the equation to show how we made the numbers. The pictures below show what these activities look like.
Weekly Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Turkeys and Thanksgiving
Since it’s November, we are doing turkeys and Thanksgiving. We’re going to learn about being thankful. We read The Thankful Book by Todd Parr. Then we share all the things we’re thankful for on our graphic organizer.
The students then write about what they are thankful for!
We will also learn about turkeys by labeling a turkey!
We’re also going to make some fun turkey art projects!
We make a rainbow turkey!
We’re also doing a new art project to paint a turkey. We are using corks to paint a paper plate and then adding a turkey head to make our turkey!
Weekly Lesson Plans for Kindergarten: Veteran’s Day
To celebrate Veteran’s Day, we read the books Hero Mom and Hero Dad. Then we write a thank you letter to a service member.
Kindergarten SEL Lessons: Morning Meeting
This week, our greeting will be the most favorite greeting ever: the shoe greeting! Everyone takes off one shoe. You choose a shoe, find the owner and greet that person!
Kindergarten Cooking: Foodie Fun Friday
This week our Foodie Fun Friday snack is a new snack! We’re making candy corn parfaits! We will use mini orange slices, pineapple chunks, and whipped cream to make a parfait! Stay tuned for pictures!
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