Mrs. Bradley's Class Kindergarten: Where Learning Is An Adventure 

Weekly Plans and Activities

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: it, review: is, my, put, look, you, do, get

• M – making Sight Words with play-doh
• T – write a pop up sentence, It is a _____.
• W – sight word tic tac toe
• Th –-Sight Word Memory
• F –  free writing or finish up a writing you have started that is in your writing folder, add Christmas/Winter word bank to writing resource folder

Morning Message:

• M- COGAT Testing (all kindergarten)
• T –diagraph “ch”
• W – COGAT Testing (all kindergarten)
• Th –beginning sounds secret message
• F –Deleting Final Phonemes Practice

Writing

• Continue working on creating a book about a topic you are interested in with a partner
• Interactive Writing: Daily News
• December Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist and Spaghetti and Meatball spaces charts
• Labeling an Elf/Labeling a Tree
• Christmas Sticker Stories

Reading:

• Books – Click, Clack, Moo, Christmas at the Farm, The Gingerbread Man, Olive the Other Reindeer
• Poems – Peppermint Stick and 5 Little Gingerbread Men (focus on sight words and color words)
• Focus –Inferencing, Retelling, Beginning/Middle/End, Story Elements
• Questions –Inferencing/When You Retell…, In the Beginning…, Next…, At the end…
• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- deleting final phonemes, beginning sounds, diagraph “ch”, CVC word boxes, sight word chants

Math: (Comparing sets of objects up to 20 using comparative language, Reading, Writing, and Representing Numbers up to 20 with and without objects)

• M-F –  Number Talks: (Number Strings and Dot Cards) Christmas Subtilizing, Problem Solving with the Gingerbread Playdough, Using a Rekenrek
• M – draw the number 10 in different ways, continue Christmas ornament number mix up (arrange numerals 0-12 in the correct order)
• T –  Elf vs. Reindeer Graph, Problem Solving, Comparing and Ordering Numbers-MIMIO
• W –Discussion on Comparing Strings of Numbers, continue Hot Chocolate Addition w/cotton marshmallows, Tenzy Dice Game
• Th –Greater Than/Less Than Discussion and Chart, continue to use Uno cards to complete greater than/less than sentence strips
• F – Rekenreks, continue 4 In a Row game, Pipe Cleaner/Bell Shape STEM Activity

Science/Social Studies:

• M –finish Brainstorming and submit list of questions to Santa to prepare for Santa chat
• T – skype with Santa
• W – Mystery Doug-Where Does Chocolate Come From?
• T – -Paint Bread Ornaments
• F –candy cane science experiment