Week 6 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 6 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!
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans: ABC BOOTCAMP
Week 6 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 6 are: W, Q, U, J and Y. 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 6 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!
And of course…the underwear hat is alway the most favorite hat of ABC BOOTCAMP! As it should be…
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 continuing with 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!
Teaching Sight Words
This week, we start introducing sight words using Sight Word 60. We start this week because we have introduced almost all of our sounds. We’ve been segmenting and oral blending as well as decoding words, so we’re ready for sight words. Here’s what I want us to remember: don’t memorize words. We segment the sounds, blend the sounds, we decode the word, we spell the word, we write the word, and we use the word in context, all to help our brains map the word so we actually learn the word!
Each week, we learn four words. On Monday, we learn the word, and on Tuesday and Wednesday, we use the words in sentences. On Thursday, we do a sight word grid, and on Friday, we play a game to practice the word!
Kindergarten Activities For Social Studies: Community Helpers And American Symbols
This week and next, we will continue focusing on community helpers and American symbols. This week’s focus is on 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.
This week is September 11th, and September 17th is Constitution Day. We celebrate and honor these days by learning about American Symbols. For each symbol, we read a book and watch a video. We use what we learn to create our circle chart. Then, we can do an art project for each symbol.
Kindergarten Activities: Math Lessons: Comparing Numbers
This week, we continue our comparing numbers unit. This week, we continue comparing numbers, and we start working on 1 more and 1 less. We know how hard this concept is, so we start working on it now, and we practice it all year!
We play WAR! Yep. We call it War. That’s the game. It’s okay. The kids love this game, and it’s a great way to practice comparing numbers. Not only do they have to figure out who has more, but they also have to justify their answer! Math dialogue is a must!
Then we blow their minds with 1 more and 1 less. For this skill, we use pretzels and marshmallows! The students use their worksheet to make the representation, then they add and take away 1 marshmallow to figure out how many one more and one less will be. The tactile, hands-on, and visual aspect of this activity makes the lesson highly effective.
Kindergarten Resources: Science Experiments
Week 6 means disappearing colors! Each week we do a science experiment so we can bring science to life and the kids can get real science experience. This week we let the kids use BLEACH! Yep. Bleach. Real life, color disappearing bleach.
Kindergarten Resources: Snack Ideas!
This week, we use our Foodie Fun Friday snack ideas are community helper snacks and an American Flag. The truck is made with pretzels, sugar wafers, and Rolos. The Band-Aid is a Graham cracker and icing. The Flag is Graham crackers, icing, and fruit. And yes, we eat a Band-Aid snack.
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