Week 31 of kindergarten is busy with CVCE words, money, the 7 continents, Earth Day, space, and our alphabet countdown! Our kindergarten lesson plans feature hands-on activities, 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 31
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Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Phonics And CVCE Words
This week, we keep 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 and decoding activities all week. 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 Plans For Kindergarten: 7 Continents
This week, we keep exploring 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!
Lesson Plans for Kindergarten: Money
This week, we start our money unit! We learn about coins and their value, we learn why money is important, and we practice counting coins!
First, we read the book Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday and talk about all the reasons we need money. This helps students make real life connections and understand why we learn about money.
Each day, we learn about a coin using a circle chart. We identify the name, value, and attributes of the coin!
Students then find and color the coin!
After we have learned the coins, we do a “money tree” to practice identifying coins!
We also do a “money in the bag” activity where we put coins in a bag, students pull out a coin, identify the name and value, and add it to our money bag!
And finally, our culminating task or project is to make a money person! Students cut out coins and make a person. Then we work together to determine the value of their money person!
Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Space
This week, we continue exploring space and planets!
This week, we’re continuing to visit the planets to learn about each one and compare and contrast them! For each planet, we look at actual NASA photographs and read a book about it. We record our learning on our graphic organizer and fill out our Space Research Journal. This week, we visit Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn!
We also decorate our classroom to create a fun space theme! For our decorations, we use inflatables from Amazon and a space video on YouTube! Simple. Fun.
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Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: EARTH DAY!
And since we’re exploring planets and Earth Day is April 22, it’s a perfect time to start working on our Earth Day unit! We focus on ways we can take care of the Earth, we go on a nature hike, and use our five senses to describe trash. This week, we will focus on what is trash and what can be recycled, and sorting things that are good for the Earth and bad for the Earth.
Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: End Of The School Year Alphabet Countdown
We’re continuing our Backward Bootcamp! That means we’re less than 26 days from the end of the school year. We celebrate a letter a day going BACKWARDS…it’s a countdown, ya’ll, and we all know a countdown is BACKWARDS…OK…enough of my soap box. Each day, we do a word web for phonics and phonemic awareness; the kids do independent work focused on handwriting, and we do a fun activity like dress-up days, art projects, snacks, etc.
This week is w for wacky day, v for violet, u for unicorns, t for favorite t-shirts and s for sunglasses!
For each letter, we also make a hat! There are two hats for the kids to choose from! The hats are included in our ABC BOOTCAMP manual (not the digital version on TPT). (Note: the manual also includes the digital version of the pages for immediate printing.
WEEK 31 RESOURCES
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Celebrate World Kindergarten Day on April 21!
