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

Weekly Plans and Activities for February 5 – 9

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: saw, yes, are, because)

• M – sight word book, The Hearts (with, are, review: do, you, see, the, for)
• T – Journals (sight word: saw) 
• W – Penguin Mystery Picture, identifying numerals
• Th – Winter Fluency Find It Game (ending sounds)
• F – Yes/No Graphing (Does your first name have more letters than your last name?),  Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• M –digraphs (sh, ch), identify middle sounds, writing numbers (same, 1 more, 1 less)
• T – stretch out sound to write words, rhyming words, show one less than, counting by 10’s to 100
• W – blends (fl, sl, pl), write a number sentence (subtraction), reading sight word sentences with expression and counting words in a sentence
• Th –fill in the missing words to complete the sentence, finish the number bonds, matching pictures to words
• F – Champs Assembly

Writing

• Continue Writing: If I Had $100, Complete Snow Stories, Winter Words, 2nd We Deliver Class Letter
• Winter Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist, introduce Writing A Letter anchor chart
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics
• Students will begin a new story using Beginning, Middle, and End paper
• Students will brainstorm and write about Valentines/Love
• Students will write a letter to someone in the school
• Parts of a Story song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSyrFfz55xo
• Writing is Cool! Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDkKgMXdyk
• The Sentence Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wrv_ZviMEc
• Parts of a letter songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKy4hV6WnA

Reading:

• Books – Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons,  Hamilton Duck, A Letter For Amy, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo, The Day It Rained Hearts
• Poem – 100 Days of School, I Like Hearts
• Focus – Compound Words, sight words, chunks, Capitalization, Punctuation, Word Families
• Questions – Retell Beginning, Middle, End…, In the Beginning…, Next…, At the end…, What does this remind you of (connections)
• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- cvc words/boxes, blending, final phonemes, compound words

Math: (model the action of separating to represent subtraction)

• M –Number Talk: I have ____ I wish I had ___.
• T – Use foam hearts to create addition number sentences.
• W –use the Pete the Cat Work Mat to model subtraction using buttons. 
  Th – MIMIO: Five Little Monkeys Subtraction
• F – Sing or Read Five Little Monkeys and act out subtraction problems with monkey puppets, students will color and paste monkeys on their page to make a subtraction story

Science/Social Studies:

• M – Brainpopjr: Seasons, review Social Studies Magazine and activities, students will draw themselves in their favorite season, wearing the clothing they would wear during that season.
• T – F Continue Chalk Shadows outside, review Holidays/Celebrations – Nature Cat – The Groundhog Way https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nature_cat_the_groundhog_way/nature-cat-the-groundhog-way/?#.Wm6f4ZM-dE8
• chart what students know and learn for each season

Hope you all have a great week!