Week 13 of kindergarten means we’re continuing our month-long focus on being thankful, turkeys, and all things Thanksgiving. And, we’re continuing to work with CVC words in our phonics lessons, learning about farms, and decomposing numbers.
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 13
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Kindergarten November Activities: Phonemic Awareness
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 November Activities And Lesson Plans: Phonics and CVC Words
We are continuing to work 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! One of the gaps or areas of weakness that we start to see at this point is the middle vowel sound. Our students struggle with this so we now switch our focus to the middle vowel sounds. Our circle charts are now medial vowel circle charts so we are focused on that sound!
We will be doing turkey cvc words using this low-prep, hands-on activity!
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 November Activities: Farms
Our curriculum continues with farms this week and we continue to focus on our evidence organizer so we can write about a farm animal this week!
Kindergarten Activities: Turkey Trouble And Disguise A Turkey
I am pleasantly surprised that our curriculum has us doing farms in November since it ties well to turkeys and Thanksgiving! This week, our bonus fun book is a classic: Turkey Trouble. I love how well this book leads into the beloved disguise a turkey project! With this story, we make predictions, retell with sequence words, do a story map, and write about what we would do if we were the turkey! Plus, we get to write about our favorite pizza!
For the writing activity, students share what they would dress up as and where they would go! My favorite is the turkey will be a beauty queen and go to Disney World. Same turkey. Same. I wanna be a beauty queen and go to Disney!
Turkey Phonics Project
Our Turkey Phonics Project is the perfect activity for November because it’s fun, it’s cute, it’s standards-based, and it keeps kids busy! 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 feather they get correct, they color that feather and add it to their turkey! For this project, we focus on letters and sounds and CVC words for kids who are ready!
Kindergarten November Activities: Math-Making Numbers-Composing Numbers
This week, we continue working on composing and decomposing numbers and ways to make numbers! This is our required curriculum, so we used the same themes for the lessons. However, instead of using slides, we made the lessons hands-on. These lessons focus on helping kids recognize the pattern of creating numbers and how the equations can be flipped.
Each lesson features large manipulatives that students use to demonstrate various ways to create numbers. Once the students present a way to make the number, we add it to our anchor chart for that number.
And to give the kids more independent or partner practice and let them play, we do shake and spill for each number!
Kindergarten Activities: Turkeys!
This week and next week we learn about turkeys to meet some science standards!
We start all of our research projects with a schema map so we can start building that background knowledge and activating our prior knowledge of turkeys. Turkeys. Not chickens. Not chickens. If you teach kindergarten, you understand this struggle.
This week, we learn about turkeys using read-alouds, videos, and graphic organizers, and we label the parts of a turkey. This explicit vocabulary lesson helps us understand the parts of a turkey and yes, which parts we eat. True story. Real life.
Thanksgiving And November Art Projects
Here are the easy art projects we do this week to go along with our fun bonus read-aloud! We do two different paper plate turkey projects! The first one is a turkey with a pattern, and the other is painted using wine corks. Yep. Just ask if anyone in the building has wine corks, and you’ll end up with enough to build a house. We get it. We don’t judge.
Kindergarten Activities: Disguise A Turkey
Another art project involves disguising a turkey. This is something we send home this week to go along with Turkey Trouble and we give families two weeks to complete the project. Here are some of the turkey disgusies we have had in the last few years:
But wait… I get it. Sending home a family project can be a lot for us and our families. So, this year we thought about something different. What if we made it a simple in-class project? What if kids could make a disguise a turkey hat?! So our Turkey Trouble resource includes 20 premade hats so kids choose their turkey, color, cut and make a hat! Easy and fun!
November Snack Idea: Candy Corn Snack
This week, our snack is a candy corn snack made from pineapples, oranges, and whipped cream!
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