Week 10 of kindergarten means our kindergarten October lesson plans are packed with all things spooky like bats! And we’re working on subtraction and reading about Bojangles in the book Rap A Tap Tap. This blog post is packed with everything I have done in my classroom during week 10 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 10
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Kindergarten October Lesson Plans: Rap A Tap Tap
We have a required reading curriculum in our district, and I’m not a fan at all. However, there are a few positives that have come from the curriculum, and this book is one of those things. I had never heard of the book until we started this wretched curriculum, and now the book is a must!
With the story, we do notice and wonder, a story map, and one of my favorite comprehension activities: a graffiti wall. The students quickly draw what they see (and hear) in the story! They share their drawing with the class and add it to our graffiti wall!
After reading the book and discussing what happened, I shared with the students that Bojangles was a real person and the story is about his life. They are mind-blown. We watch videos of him dancing and then we get to try tap dancing!
Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp
Phonemic Awareness Bootcamp continues. This week, we are on skill four: identifying rhyming words or words with the same ending 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.
Kindergarten October Lesson Plans: Phonics
We are working on CVC words in phonics. We are using Word Family Bootcamp for explicit phonics instruction. With Word Family Bootcamp, we are segmenting, spelling, decoding, and writing CVC words and reading them in decodable text!
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 October Lesson Plans: Practicing Subtraction
We introduce subtraction during week 8 or week 9 so this week we’re practicing with lots of hands on lesson in whole group and small groups!
Up first, directly from our required math curriculum, is beaver math. Truth. Not a joke. The lesson in our math curriculum uses beavers to subtract. Our curriculum is a slide-based curriculum so we take the lesson/activity and make it hands-on.
If you’re going to a math lesson with a beaver theme (ya’ll, I can’t. But we LOVE the weirdness!) you set the stage to engage with a picture of a beaver. Yep. Engagement is that easy. A picture. Done. So how does one subtract like a beaver? With sticks, of course. And by sticks we mean pretzel sticks. I write an equation on the board and students use their sticks to solve the equation. They are also writing the equation on their board or paper.
We also do pizza subtraction. We start the whole group by eating slices of pizza as our “I DO WE DO” lesson. The next day is our “YOU DO” lesson by subtracting pepperonis!
Day 1-We have a pizza. I write the equation on our light-up stage. First, I model by having the students read the equation and helping me count the slices and take away the slices. Then the students do it. The student puts the slices on the pizza. Then they “eat” the correct number of slices to find the answer.
Day 2-We are subtracting pepperonis from our pizza. I write the equation on the board. They put the pepperonis on the pizza and subtract by eating the pepperonis (red and yellow counters). Then we copy the equation, write the answer, and read the equation.
Kindergarten October Lesson Plans: Bats And Stellaluna Activities
October means all things creepy and spooky, like bats! So this week, we learn about bats and read the classic Stellaluna!
To kick off our bat unit we make some fun green screen pictures of the kids in a cave like a bat!
We start our research project with a schema map! We share our schema, and as we learn about bats, we add new learning, and at the end of our bat unit, we address our misconceptions!
To learn about bats, we use read alouds and videos and record our learning on graphic organizers.
We also read Stellaluna to work on comprehension as well as learn about bats. After reading the story, we also compare bats and birds!
Pumpkin Phonics Project
This week we also start working on our Pumpkin Phonics Project! We love doing this monthly because they make a great assessment tool, they’re fun and they make a cute hallway display!
I assess the kids one-on-one. For each pumpkin they get correct, they color that pumpkin and add it to their truck or vine. For this project, we focus on letters and sounds!
Kindergarten October Lesson Plans: Bats Art Projects
Here are some of the bat art projects we do as we learn about bats!
Bat Snack!
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