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

*Reminders and Important Information*

Please send in your self addressed envelopes and $10 for the upcoming Grandparents Day program.

Students did great on their second sight word spelling check! Thank you for all of your work at home reviewing these words with them. This weeks sight word review and spelling test will be for the words: have, he, here, home, in, bonus words: them, then

Weekly Activities:

Morning Activities and Writing

• M – continue working on Three Little Pigs student books from last week, continue working on BME (Beginning, Middle, End) writing

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

• T – Goldilocks and The Three Bears Reader 
• W – Sort story pieces from The Three Bears into sizes from smallest to largest
• Th – Word Family Find It
• F – Sight Word Tic Tac Toe

Morning Message/Interactive Writing:

• 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)
• Acrostic Poetry Anchor Chart and Group Poem-Fieldtrip
• Complete a map the class is creating for Little Red Riding Hood to use to get to Grandmother’s House
• Complete 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, solving the mystery sentence using beginning sounds,

Writing

• Acrostic Poetry Anchor Chart
• Acrostic Name Poem- students will write words describing themselves that begin with each letter of their name
• Procedural Text Anchor Chart
• How To Make Porridge – Have students write procedural text for making porridge.
• Nouns Foldable in Journals – students will illustrate and write about a person, place, and thing
• 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: Identify elements of a story, discuss the main idea  and connect it to personal experience)

• Books – The Three Pigs, The Three Bears
• Poem – Spring Is Here
• Chart Story Elements of The Three Bears
• Chart Personal Connection to Story
• Retell the story using puppets and readers theatre
• 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)

• Goldilocks Roll and Record with Teen Numbers
• Favorite Color Bar Graph
• Make Tally marks with pretzels
• Graph Results of question of the day using snap cubes
• 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
• Fun Friday – Make Porridge and Graph

Hope you all have a great week!!