Week 29 of kindergarten is busy with CVCE words, measurement, the 7 continents, weather, and spring! Our kindergarten lesson plans feature hands-on lessons, lots of fun, and 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 Plan Ideas: Week 29
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Kindergarten Lesson Plan Ideas: Phonics And CVCE Words
This week, we start working on CVCe words and vowels. We do a circle chart to focus on explicit instruction with decoding, segmenting, spelling, and blending. And we do explicit dictation activities all week and decoding activities. We also work with decodable text in whole group and small groups.
We also use our mnemonic letters and sound cards to spell and write words with the cvce pattern! We also use the cards to change short vowels to long vowels by adding the silent e or mamma e. The embedded mnemonics help students learn spelling patterns faster and improve recall!
Lesson Plan Ideas For Kindergarten: 7 Continents
This week, we switch to our final knowledge-building unit, all about the 7 continents! This unit is one of my kids’ favorites because they love learning about different places. We spice this unit up with videos of the different continents and using Google Earth to fly to the continents! For each continent, we do a notice-and-wonder OR questions-and-answers, and each continent has an evidence organizer. At the end of the unit, we write about our favorite continent, favorite thing to do, and favorite natural feature. And we make a travel brochure for our favorite continent!
This week, we also read a classic book: The Story of Ferdinand! If you aren’t using this in your classroom, you’re missing out. It’s such a great story about being yourself and being happy with who you are. We need more of these stories in our classrooms. This week we focus on story elements, but we re-read the book a few times during this unit and focus on character traits, main idea, and happiness!
Lesson Plans for Kindergarten: Measurement
This week, we start our measurement unit! We compare things by size, sort by size, we measure with dog biscuits (yes, dog biscuits) and we measure our friends and their feet!
First, we do a measurement brain dump. We share out all the words and ways we know to measure. I love this type of activity because it gives me a great idea of where the kids are in their learning and what their background knowledge might be!
Then we work together to put ourselves in order from smallest to biggest and then I give the kids strips of paper and they have to arrange them in order from smallest to biggest!
We read the book Measuring Penny and we measure classroom objects with dog biscuits, just like in the book!
And we end the week with two of our favorite measurement activities: measuring our friends and our feet!
We measure our friends using the tiles on the floor. And then we draw a picture to show who is bigger/smaller.
For measuring our feet, we take off our shoes and trace our friend’s foot. Cue all the squeals and laughter. Then we use pennies, cubes, paper clips, and crayons to measure our feet. We discuss why each one used more or fewer objects to measure.
Kindergarten Lesson Plan Ideas: Weather
This week, we continue our weather unit.
We make predictions, a story map, and even what’s real and fantasy! And we also write about food we would want to fall from the sky!
We continue our daily weather observations and record our data in our journals. We use this data to talk about how the weather impacts our lives and how we adapt to the weather. And then we use this data to create our own weather forecast, and we even deliver the forecast in front of the green screen!
Kindergarten Lesson Plan Ideas: Easter And Spring
This week, we do have some spring, bunny, and egg fun! We read How to Catch the Easter Bunny and we hunt for eggs!
And we fill our basket with phonics using our Basket Of Eggs Phonics Project!
Lesson Plans: Snack
This week’s Foodie Fun Friday snack is bunny milkshake!
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