Week 5 of the school year means the focus continues on procedures, establishing centers, and having fun with kindergarten activities for social studies, science, hands-on math, and more! This blog post is packed with everything I have done in my classroom during week 5 of school. These ideas span years of kindergarten!
This year is a little different for me because I get to be a stay-at-home dad, so I can spend more time with our daughter and prepare for our second daughter, due on December 21!! So, each week for Schedulin’ Sunday, I will post ideas and resources that I use in my classroom for that week in the school year. Each post will also contain links to previous years’ lesson plans!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Week 4
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans: ABC BOOTCAMP
Week 5 means it’s ABC BOOTCAMP time! ABC BOOTCAMP works in any order, with any curriculum, or as a stand-alone curriculum. We follow the order of our required curriculum, so the sounds for week 4 are: B, E, L, P. And yes, ABC BOOTCAMP is aligned with the science of reading and uses research based best practices.
For each letter/sound, we do a circle chart, explicit handwriting instruction, and make a hat!
These are the new hats included in our TKS BOOTCAMP kit. The students get to choose from two hats. One requires a little assembly, and the other is just color and cut. Week 5 means the students are doing their hats independently. I create the models for them to look at, but they do them on their own, so I can start pulling small groups!
Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp
Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp continues. We know how important phonemic awareness is for our students. We start phonemic awareness with sentences. And we connect phonemic awareness to concrete objects. This week, we are on skill two: identifying onset sounds. Here’s what makes Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp unique. We do our phonemic awareness circle chart to determine the beginning sound by attaching the sound to pictures (no letters), so we can focus on hearing the sound. THEN we immediately move to ABC BOOTCAMP, where we learn the sound and the spelling (letter name) of the sound. They work perfectly together and give students a rock-solid foundation in phonemic awareness and phonics!
Kindergarten Resources: Last Stop On Market Street
This week, as part of our five senses unit, we’re reading the book Last Stop On Market Street. We focus on what we notice, ask questions and find answers, and work on details and text evidence.
For details, we don’t actually use the curriculum worksheet. Instead, we make the lessons more powerful and meaningful with art projects. We do a directed drawing of CJ and we make the city skyline and add details. We’re still doing the curriculum with integrity but making it better for kids!
Kindergarten Activities For Social Studies: Community Helpers
This week and next week, we will focus on community helpers and American symbols. This week’s focus is community helpers. We will learn about teachers, firefighters, doctors, and nurses. For each community helper, we will read a book and complete our graphic organizer. Then, we will do a directed drawing for each community helper.
Kindergarten Activities: Math Lessons: Comparing Numbers
This week, we start our comparing numbers unit while continuing with sorting. We start with sorting and comparing the groups to see which is greatest or least. Then we spend the week comparing quantities with different games and activities.
Stickers! The kids get a random number of stickers and place them on their worksheet. Two students come to the front of the class and compare their stickers.
Bags! In this lesson, students come to the front and grab a bag. We count the objects in the bag to determine which one is the greatest and which is the least. On the worksheet, we circle the greatest.
In this comparing numbers lesson, I make posters with cardstock and dot stickers. Then we battle it out. Two students randomly choose two posters and hold them up. We count the dots and compare the numbers. The person with the least amount sits down.
Kindergarten Resources: Science Experiments
Week 5 means dancing colors! Each week we do a science experiment so we can bring science to life and the kids can get real science experience.
Kindergarten Resources: Snack Ideas!
This week we use our Foodie Fun Friday snack ideas are apple snacks and community helper snacks! The apple, fire truck and band-aid use graham crackers. The other snack is an apple pie in a cup!
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WEEK 4 RESOURCES
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