Week 21 of kindergarten is busy with digraphs, 2D shapes, When I Was Young In The Mountains and arctic animals. This week’s kindergarten lesson plans are lots of hands-on lessons, lots of fun, and lots of effective learning.
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 daughters (NOTICE THAT CHANGE?!) Our daughter was born on December 15 and is doing well. Big sister has been amazing, and we’re so happy at how we’re all settling into our new family of 5 (Dolly, our doodle, is a great fur sister!). 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 21
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Phonics And Digraphs
This week, we are working on beginning and ending digraphs! For each digraph, we do a circle chart, word sort, decodable text, dictation, and a decoding activity! After a week of Blends Bootcamp, my students had 80% mastery of digraphs!
This week, we’re also using our themed digital word-building tool and spelling words with digraphs using mitten letters!
We also use our mnemonic letters and sound cards to spell and write words with digraphs. The embedded mnemonics help students learn spelling patterns faster and improve recall!
Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: When I Was Young In The Mountains
This week, we continue with our required curriculum by reading When I Was Young In The Mountains and School Then And Now as we move into the next module of our curriculum. This module is all about the past and present!
After reading the story we work on main idea, questions and answers, and comparing life in the mountains to our lives today!
This week we read the book School Then And Now and compare schools today to schools long ago (like a hundred years…not the 19080’s like my studnets think..). We do a notice and wonder and we compare schools now and then!
Kindergarten Lesson Plans For Math: Shapes
This week, we start working with 2D shapes using Shapes Bootcamp!
This week is focused on shape recognition and desciribing shapes with attributes. We start by making Shape Monsters. The students work in pairs to make shape monsters. Then students explain their shape monster to the class and we use their presentation to make our anchor chart.
Each day we do a shape graphic organizer to identify the shape, it’s attributes and real objects for that shape!
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Kindergarten Science Lesson Plans: Arctic Animals
This week is also arctic animals week! Who doesn’t love a narwhal?! I mean..it’s the unicorn of the sea!
Each day we learn about a new animal, we discuss what threats the animal faces and label the animal. The labeling helps with explicit vocabulary and helps us understand habitats and adaptations!
Arctic Animal Art Projects
Here are some of the art projects that we will do this week!
And yes, I dress up as a walrus…because you can’t learn about a walrus unless you become a walrus..
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Penguin Snack
Our Foodie Fun Friday snack this week is a polar bear snack! We used vanilla ice cream cups, Nilla wafers and chocolate chips. And true story…in our morning message I write: “Today we will eat a polar bear!” and that’s it. The kids are so confused all day long…and then ICE CREAM!
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WEEK 21 RESOURCES
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