Week 7 of kindergarten 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 7 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 7
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans: ABC BOOTCAMP
Week 7 means it’s the last days of ABC BOOTCAMP! We wrap up our 26 days of sounds and letter! We spend the week after this reviewing and practicing before our ABC BOOTCAMP Fashion Show and then we move onto CVC words with Word Family Bootcamp!
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 7 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 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 continue introducing sight words using Sight Word 60. This is our second week of using the routine so we’re still learning the routines and expectations. 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 Math Lesson Plans: Introducing Addition And Subtraction
Yes, believe it or not, our district scope and sequence has us introducing addition and subtraction. We have done this for years, and it’s FINE! I promise! Hehe. We do it in a very concrete, hands-on way, focusing on the concept of putting together/joining and taking away.
To introduce addition, we play GET ON MY BOAT! We use a pirate ship rug from Amazon or make a boat on the floor with tape. Some kids get on the boat. We count how many are on the boat. Some kids are swimmers. We count how many swimmers. When I yell “SHARK!” the swimmers jump on the boat, and we count how many kids are on the boat, and we add!
To introduce subtraction, we do the opposite and play GET OFF MY BOAT! There are some kids on the boat. I make them get off the boat and we have our answer. Easy. Concrete. And the kids get the concept so easily.
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Apples And Apple Activities
This week, we start learning about apples. We will continue next week with apples, Johnny Appleseed, and our famous apple party! This week, we start our schema map, we learn about apples, we do the life cycle of apples, and label apples.
We also do some fun apple art projects. And we do torn paper apples and we paint an apple that looks like we have been eating it!
We also start our apple phonics project. This is our first phonics project of the year! We do one phonics project a month to practice and assess our phonics skills. And these make cute and meaningful bulletin board displays or hallway displays!
I assess the kids one-on-one. For each apple they get correct, they color that apple and add it to their basket. For this project, we focus on letters and sounds!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: PIRATE DAY!
September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and we go big to celebrate. It’s an all-day pirate-palooza in our room. Read alouds, art projects, phonics games, math games, costumes, and a lot of fun. Is it in our curriculum? Nope. Is it in the scope and sequence? Nope. Is it OK? Yep. We’re learning. And having fun. We’re creating memories.
If you’re celebrating Pirate Day, you must read Pirates Love Underpants. After we sequence the story, our writing activity is: What would you do if you were a pirate?
We do pirate phonics to work on our letters and sounds. Our treasure chest is empty, so we’re trying to fill it with our gold, but we only get to add gold if we know the sound and the letter!
We play a pirate math game called Walk The Plank to see who walks the plank and who gets to stay on their pirate ship!
Our pirate art project is hand-print pirates! The kids do most of the work, including choosing their pirate skin color and adding paint to their hands. Once the paint is dry, I help with the details!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Social Studies: Hispanic Heritage Month
Week 7 is the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, and we celebrate all month in our classroom. 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!
Kindergarten Resources: Science Experiments
Week 7 means we are building an apple tower! The kids work together to use toothpicks and apple slices to build a tower!
Kindergarten Resources: Snack Ideas!
This week, our Foodie Fun Friday snack ideas are apple snacks! Apple pie in a cup (apple pie filling, graham crackers, whipped cream and cinnamon. And an apple cookie with graham crackers, frosting
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