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

*Reminders and Important Information*

Our Easter party will be Thursday, March 29th, from 11-12. Thank you to everyone for helping with refreshments and party items. Please send 24 plastic, candy filled eggs to school by Wednesday. Please make sure the eggs have candy that is individually wrapped and that the eggs are taped closed. Due to the eggs being outside, please use candy that will not melt. We are looking forward to this fun day!!

We will soon have live caterpillars in our room! Shipping estimates show they should arrive sometime on Tuesday. We will then begin learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. Students will be able to watch the caterpillars eat, grow, form their chrysalides, and begin their transformation into butterflies!

Students did great on their first sight word spelling check! Thank you for all of your work at home reviewing these words with them. The hardest word for them was about. We will continue to review the word, about, this week as well.

This weeks sight word review and spelling test will be for the words: for, get, go, had, has, bonus words: out, up

Weekly Activities:

Morning Activities and Writing

• M – Graph your favorite type of weather, continue working on BME (Beginning, Middle, End) writing

We are working on adding detail to our writing. Students were excited this week to tape on additional pages to their writing for their stories to continue as they add more detail!

• T-W – Vote: Who do you believe? The Wolf or The Pig, Easter Bunny Writing (Students will Write sentences to tell a story, If I were an Easter Bunny…Or How to catch an Easter Bunny…)
• Th – Domino Sum Graph, The Three Little Pigs Student Book
• F – No School, Good Friday Holiday

Morning Message/Interactive Writing:

• Monday-Thursday: Daily Star Student – Share something with the class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capitals, spacing, punctuation)
• Illustrate the Fairy Tale our class created last week
• Complete a map the class is creating for Little Red Riding Hood to use to get to Grandmother’s House
• Create a Large Story Map of The Three Little Pigs, students can take turns walking down the path and retelling the story.
• Phonics lessons: writing words with blends (pr, tr, sn), solving the mystery sentence using beginning sounds,

Writing

• Nouns Chart: Person, Places, Things, Song: What Is A Noun?
• Roll A Fairy Tale Story (students will roll dice and use prompts to create individual fairy tale stories with characters, setting, problem, and solution)
• Review Intro Into Fairy Tales Chart, retelling with popsicle stick puppets
• Continue Writing Beginning, Middle, End Stories
• March/Easter Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics and we will review Punctuation and Writing Checklist

Reading (focus: Recalling facts in non fiction texts, positional words, using post-its to jot thinking)

• Books – The Three Pigs, The True Story of The Three Pigs, The Easter Egg
• Poem – Spring Is Here
• Chart Story Elements of The Three Little Pigs
• Real/Make Believe Chart
• Question of The Day  (practice using the sight word yes)
• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- digraphs, cvc words/boxes, blending, deleting final phonemes

Math: (Identify U.S. Coins by name, including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarter; Collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories)

• Coin Poem, Coin Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXJGNo08v0, Coin Bingo
• Subitizing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwUtg6O6H3k, use rekenrek to discuss different ways/combinations to show the number 12
• QR Code Math Game
• Flower Sums using dominos
• Measuring Eggs Practice using unifix cubes
• Roll and Cover, Roll 2 dice, cover sum on corresponding egg
• Easter Egg Spin and graph
• Create a Counting by Tens Headband using a sentence strip
• Number Talk: PowerPoint: What Does Not Belong? (Students will share which item does not belong and justify why.)
• Sorting Coins

• Easter Egg Stem Challenge
• Grow a Bean In A Baggie, record observations
• Plant different types of Beans in a jar, record observations
• Brainpop jr. video on life cycle of butterfly
• Observe caterpillars and record observations each day

Hope you all have a great week!!