Week 21 of kindergarten is a short week and it’s going to be a COLD week so we’re doing some fun Snowmen At Night activities, lots of fun kindergarten phonics with digraphs and soup and crackers for decomposing teen numbers!
Kindergarten Phonics And Snowmen At Night: Lesson Plans
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Kindergarten Phonics And Phonemic Awareness
This week, we’re continuing Blends Bootcamp with digraphs. We did our circle charts last week and worked on decoding and writing words with digraphs. The kids did great, but I noticed in decodable text that they didn’t notice the digraphs, and we were still having some issues with the sounds. So this week, we’re going to be doing digraph sorts, lots of decodable texts, and continuing to read and spell words with digraphs.
Last year we did this fun game using buzzers to help us hear the digraphs in words so we’re going to be using this one again this year. Basically, I hold up a picture, we say the word and the kids hit the buzzer for the correct digraph!
We will also be using this activity in small groups and whole groups! The kids identify a digraph and then find a word that includes that digraph!
For these activities, we’re using our digraph cards!
For phonemic awareness, we’re moving on to skill 6 of our Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp. Skill 6 is syllables. We will be stomping syllables, using sticky notes to count syllables and sorting words by the number of syllables!
Three Billy Goats Gruff: Reading Comprehension
This week, we’re wrapping up our required curriculum book The Three Billy Goats Gruff by comparing characters!
We’re also going to be reading the perfect book for a very cold week! Snowmen At Night! This is a must-read for winter!
Before reading, we will make predictions. This is such a great story for predictions because students can really predict what they think snowmen might do at night! We record our predictions on the graphic organizer. After reading, we record what happened in the story and compare that to our predictions!
After reading the story and talking about what we would do if we were a snowman at night, the kids will sequence the story!
And finally, my favorite activity is the kids will write about what they would do if they were a snowman at night!
Of course, you can’t read about snowmen without a fun snowman art project so we’re going to make a melted snowman! For this art project, I cut squares of white paper in about 1 inch squares. The kids to the rest of the work!
Teen Number Activities: Math
This week we’re continuing to work with teen numbers! Our curriculum has the kids making teen numbers with ten and some more! So that’s what we do! We also work on writing equations! After last week, the kids have a solid mastery of teen numbers as ten and some more. This week the curriculum is about equations and understanding that 10=4=14 and 14=10+4 and that those mean the same thing. So this week we’re going to be decomposing teen numbers into tens and ones using soup and crackers! This will be a brand new lesson for us so here’s the plan:
Tuesday-soup and a crackers-giant bowl of soup and crackers, all made from poster board. The student will count the number of crackers in the bowl. Example: “I want 13 crackers in my soup!” Then the student will decompose by leaving 10 crackers in the bowl and moving 3 out. Then we will write the equations. This will be all whole group.
Wednesday-Thursday-independent practice! Studetns will use styrofoam bowls and oyster crackers to decompose teen numbers. THis will be the same ideas as the whole group lesson but the kids will be doing it on their own and writing equations.
Friday-small groups-students who need extra practice and support will work with me in small groups!
Martin Luther King Jr Activities
This week, we’re honoring MLK Day by learning about Martin Luther King Jr. We will be learning about MLK, and then students will write about what they would do to change the world.
Foodie Fun Friday-Melted Snowman
This week, our Foodie Fun Friday snack is a brand new snack for our class! A melted snowman using vanilla pudding, chocolate chips, candy corn, and pretzel sticks!
Kindergarten Morning Meeting
This week, our greeting is a snowman greeting. I’ll put student names on snowman cutouts. They will grab a snowman and greet their friend!
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