Week 33 of kindergarten is busy with AR words, subtraction, Dragons Love Tacos, 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 33
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Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Phonics AR Words
This week, we change up our phonics lesson to go along with our ocean unit. Who lives in the ocean? Sharks. So, we’re doing SHARK WORDS and working on the AR pattern! Now, we use Secret Stories in our classroom, so we’ve been introduced to the AR pattern, but it has not been explicitly taught until now!
We do explicit instruction with our circle chart and some independent practice!
The next day, we do a decoding activity where we decode AR words on shark teeth. Then we add the teeth to the shark’s mouth!
Then we get to go on a shark hunt! We find the sharks hidden around our room (shark Easter eggs from Walmart!). We say the word and spell the word on our board. Then we read the word.
Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Dragons Love Tacos
This week, our read-aloud is a kindergarten classic: Dragons Love Tacos! This is just a fun read-aloud! Kids love it, I love it, and it’s about tacos. Who doesn’t love tacos?! We use the book all week to work on story elements, personification, graphing, and more!
We graph which taco we like best!
There is a directed drawing…there are no formal directions. I looked at some dragon clipart and just made it up as we did it! Turned out pretty cute!
And since dragons love tacos, it makes sense to feed them tacos to practice phonics skills! I draw a dragon on a posterboard and make some tacos with words containing our focus skill. The pictures show CVCe words, but this week we will use AR words. See how this works for any skill…I saw the sounds in a word. The kids blend the sounds and find the word by decoding. Then we write the word!
Lesson Plans for Kindergarten: Subtraction
This week, and the rest of the school year, we focus on addition and subtraction so we can build fluency and automaticity! This week, we’re focused on subtraction, so we’re doing some fun activities and lessons to review and practice how to subtract.
Up first, subtracting tacos! For this lesson, I drew a dragon on a posterboard and printed some tacos on magnetic paper. Yes…it’s a thing. It’s a must-have for the classroom. Then we solve subtraction equations by feeding the dragon some tacos!
Then we switch from dragons to chickens and we chase some chickens to practice subtraction. The chickens are just yellow balloons with equations written on them. When the students catch a chicken, they solve the equation on their paper!
And, we practice subtraction by getting of the boat! This is the most effective subtraction lesson we do all year. We use this to introduce subtraction at the beginning of the year and again at the end of the year for building fluency. Did we mention how much fun this lesson is?! After some whole group practice, we do lots of hands-on independent practice!
Another independent activity that we do is building and solving equations. We use our visual number cards. Students choose two cards, and they have to build the subtraction problem by putting the bigger number first. The class is solving the problem independently on their paper!
Lesson Plans For Kindergarten: Ocean
This week, we spent some time exploring the ocean. It goes perfectly with our shark words phonics lessons. Each day, we learn about an ocean animal with a book and a video. We record our learning on our graphic organizer so we can write about the animal. We learn about habitats and adaptations as well as threats to the animals. Then we label the parts of an animal and do some ocean animal art projects!
And just for fun, we do a fun green screen picture to kick off our ocean unit!
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 m for mustaches and McDonald’s, l for lollipops, k for kings, j for jeans, and i for ice cream!
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.
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Classroom Snack
This week our Foodie Fun Friday classroom snack is…of course…tacos. I actually cook the meat in the classroom, and we make tacos! I mean, come on. You can’t read Dragons Love Tacos and not eat tacos.
Morning Meeting Greeting: Taco Greeting
We also do a taco morning greeting!
WEEK 33 RESOURCES
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