Week 12 of kindergarten means we’re starting our month-long focus on being thankful, turkeys and all things Thanksgiving. Plus we’re continuing to work with CVC words for our phonics lesson, learn abour 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 11
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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 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!
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 switches topics this week, and we start our Farms unit or farm theme! This is a fun theme that kids really enjoy! This week, we focus on key details about farms and collecting evidence about farm animals!
We also read the book A Year At Maple Hill Farm to focus on how farms and animals change during the year!
Kindergarten November Activities: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed 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: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Turkey! We sequence the story, discuss what is real and what is fantasy, and graph our feelings on turkey! I also love that this story teases the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is a perfect setup for next week’s bonus book, Balloons Over Broadway!
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-Decomposing Numbers
This week, we start 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 but instead of using slides, we made the lessons hands-on! These lessons focus on getting kids to see the pattern of making numbers and how the equations can flip!
Each lesson has large manipulatives that the students manipulate to show ways to make numbers. Once the students show a way to make the number, we add it to our anchor chart for the number!
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 a fun and simple directed drawing of a turkey and we make these adorable rainbow turkeys!
Dia De Los Muertos
November 1 is Dia de los Muertos and we spend some time learning about the holiday and doing an art project.
November Snack Idea: Cookie Turkey
This week, our snack is a turkey cookie! It’s a sugar cookie with chocolate frosting, icing, and candy corn!
WEEK 12 RESOURCES
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