Week 9 of kindergarten means it’s basically a review week because this week is the last week of the quarter, and it’s usually a short week for our district, so we have some fun and review. We’re also busy assessing with ESGI, so we can get report cards finished! This blog post is packed with everything I have done in my classroom during week 9 of school. These lesson plans 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 9
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Phonics
Since this week is a review week, we focus on sounds and letters! The idea is that after we return from our fall break, we can dive into CVC words, so we want a solid foundation for sounds and letters! Here are a few of the fun games we play to review sounds, letters, and letter formation!
Monster Mash-choose a letter, identify the sound and how to spell the sound and spell the sound on your board!
Spookley Sounds Game: We got these cute Spookley bags from Spookley himself so I made square pumpkin letters and put them in the bag. Easy. Fun. Fast. Say the sounds, identify how to spell the sound, and spell the sound!
We’re also doing a lot small group work using our sound hunts from ABC BOOTCAMP! These are targeted groups focusing on the sounds that we need the most practice with!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Spookley The Square Pumpkin
It’s officially Fall (but it’s still 90 degrees here in the south) so let’s celebarte by kicking off October with everyone’s favorite square pumpkin: Spookley!
I love this story because it has so many great comprehension lessons but more importantly the lessons about being yourself and kindness are so important for us and our student! And Spookley is just so cute!
With Spookley we teach predictions, story elements with a story map, sequencing, adjectives and text evidence! As we read the book over the week we do a different skill or lesson each day!
We also do some Spookley The Square Pumpkin art! We draw Spookley and we make a Spookley!
Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp
Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp continues. 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.
Teaching Sight Words
Here’s what I want us to remember: don’t memorize words. We segment the sounds, blend the sounds, decode the word, spell the word, write the word, and use the word in context, all to help our brains map the word so we actually learn it!
Each week, we learn four words. We learn the word on Monday, 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 Math Lesson Plans: Numbers And Counting
This short week is used for math small groups to focus on numbers and counting! For these groups, we’re using our Game It Up! resource!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Social Studies: Hispanic Heritage Month
Week 8 means our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month continues. We don’t celebrate every day, but what we do is learn about 18 different Hispanic heroes over the course of the month. For each hero, we read a book, watch a video (or listen to their music, look at their art, etc), and create a graphic organizer about what we learned. Then, we do a self-portrait that is focused on the lesson the hero taught us. The idea here is that this makes the impact of the people more concrete for our kids.
For example, when we learn about Sonia Sotomayor, we talk about what we want to be when we grow up, and our self-portrait is what we will be when we grow up. When we learn about Laurie Hernandez, we talk about how we have to practice to get good at things, so our self-portrait is us with a gold medal!
WEEK 9 RESOURCES
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