Week 20 of kindergarten might be a short week or it might not. We might have a snow day on Monday so we’re planning for five days but might have a four day week. And combined with a snow day last week, we’re going to be focusing on procedures and routines more this week along with our penguin activities and teen number activities.
Penguin Activities And Teen Number Activities: Lesson Plans
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Phonics And Phonemic Awareness
This week we’re starting Blends Bootcamp with digraphs. We’ve actually worked with digraphs informally, so the kids are somewhat familiar with them, but this will be explicit instruction! We’re working with sh, ch, and th words this week! We’re doing a circle chart for each digraph, which lets us practice segmenting, decoding, and blending words.
We’re also going to be working on writing words with beginning and ending digraphs. And finally we will do a digraph sort!
Each week, we play a game to practice whatever phonics skill we’re working on, so this week, we’re doing our Do You Wanna Build A Snowman game! We will decode sh, th, and ch words and try to throw the snowballs into Olaf!
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, our required curriculum has us reading Three Billy Goats Gruff! I actually like this story and so do my kids. I always love their discussions around the goat and troll. Especially when someone defends the troll!
We will work on story elements with a story map, identity problems and solutions (or resolutions as our curriculum calls it…), and character traits!
At the end of the week we do a fun STEM challenge to bring the story to life! The kids are challenged to make a bridge to see if they can get the goat across the bridge! They work in pairs with cups and popsicle sticks!
And of course, we make a troll!
Each Friday is a flex day in our required curriculum/scope and sequence, so we always try to read a fun book this week, it seems appropriate to read Snowmen At Night since we actually got to make snowmen this weekend (we’re in the south so this is rare for us!).
After reading the story and talking about what we would do if we were a snowman at night, the kids will sequence the story!
Teen Number Activities: Math
This week we’re starting 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! And ya’ll. If you want a fun way to introduce teen numbers that works so well…we’ve got the lesson for you. Giant tens and ones. Everyone, meet my friends Rod and Cube! We use these to introduce rods as ten and cubes as ones. We make teen numbers, practice counting from 10, write equations, and talk about how a teen number is ten and some more. Do it. For serious. Kids love it and it works!
The next day we make teen numbers using ten frames and counters. And we hope that we make the connection that the ten frame is ten like Rod.
Day 3 is another fun game FEED THE MONSTER! Ya’ll. I’m obsessed with posterboard and sticky note activities. It’s simple. It’s basic. And kids love them! So for this teen number activity, we made a monster and the kids use sticky notes to make the teen number.
Penguin Activities
I love penguins. Who doesn’t? So this week I’m busting out the penguin costume and we’re learning about penguins! Ignore the stain on the costume. I made pancakes in this costume and spilled pancake batter on it. Yep. Made pancakes dressed as a penguin. If that doesn’t scream KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, nothing does.
We’re using out Penguins Research Project to learn about penguins. We’re doing a schema map, can/have/are chart, true false sort and labeling penguins!
Start with a schema map and record students schema. At the end of your penguin unit, add new learning and revisit the schema to address misconceptions!
And no penguin unit is complete without a penguin hat! True story! Make the hat!!
We also do a directed drawing of a penguin!
Foodie Fun Friday-Penguin Activities Penguin Snack
This week our Foodie Fun Friday snack is a penguin made with ice cream sandwiches!
Kindergarten Morning Meeting
This week, our greeting is a snow ball greeting. I print kids names and pictures on paper. We wad them up to make a snowball. Throw the snowballs and greet our friends!
WEEKLY RESOURCES
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