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

*Tuesday will be an exciting day at the zoo! Please check your child’s folder for an information about the trip!

*All classes have been practicing extra hard for our upcoming Grandparent’s Day performance. It is going to be so cute! Please remember to send $10 for a shirt and addressed/stamped envelopes for the invitations!

*State Testing is this week, so our sweet kiddos will have to be extra quiet on Wednesday. We will have recess on the track and silent lunch that day.

*Spring pictures were sent home on Friday. The directions on how to purchase them are on the back.

*Students did great on their second sight word spelling check! The hardest words for them to spell were then and them. We will continue working on these words this week. Thank you for all of your work at home reviewing these words with them.

*This weeks sight word review/spelling test will be for the words: is, me, it, like, little Bonus Words: she, many

Weekly Activities:

Morning Activities and Writing

• M – The Three Bears student books, begin working on BME (Beginning, Middle, End) writing about a special memory with our Grandparents

• T – Goldilocks and The Three Bears Reader
• W – Student Readers – Money Books
• Th – Word Family Find It, Journal Writing (using words: is, it, like, little, me, she,and many)
• 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
• Phonics lessons: writing words with blends, solving the mystery sentence using beginning sounds,

Writing

• Introduce Punctuation Song Posters
• Create Color Poems
• Create class book about our trip to the zoo!
• Acrostic Poetry Anchor Chart
• Continue working on Acrostic Name Poem- students will write words describing themselves that begin with each letter of their name
• Continue working on procedural text – How To Make Porridge – Have students write procedural text for making porridge.
• Continue Working on – Roll A Fairy Tale Story (students will roll dice and use prompts to create individual fairy tale stories with characters, setting, problem, and solution)
• Writing Beginning, Middle, End Stories (memory with Granparents)
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics and we will review Punctuation and Writing Checklist

Reading (focus: the elements of a fairy tale, retelling fairy tales (This week we will continue our focus on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Later in the week, we will move on to The Three Billy Goats Gruff)

• Books –  The Three Bears, Dustylocks and the Three Bears, Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Continue making personal connections to The Three Bears
• Poem – Spring Is Here
• Chart Story Elements of The Three Bears
• Retell the story using puppets and readers theatre
• Question of The Day  (practice using the sight word yes)
• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- cvc words (cvc strips with middle/ending sounds missing) cvc words using elkonin boxes and magnetic letters, differentiating certain letters by playing quick as you can, adding s/es to show more than one, digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh) and blends

Poems: Rain (focus: Rhyming Words, Capital Letters, Punctuation, Sight Words, Fluency (reading smoothly, not like a robot, and sounding like we talk), Matching Words, Word Chunks)

Math: (Identify U.S. Coins by name, including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarter; Collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories, using data or information to create a graph, and reviewing measurement)

Number Talks:

• Rekenreks: creating combinations of 16
• Dot Cards (what do you see? How do you see it?)
• Creating number sentences using a ladybug

Math Activities

• Graphing Hair Color/Observations
• Graphing Eye Color/Observations
• Favorite Color Bar Graph
• How Tall am I using yarn/picture
• Measuring Shoes using Square Tiles
• Connect Four Addition

Math Centers

• Goldilocks Roll and Record with Teen Numbers
• 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 – Writing sentences with SHAVING CREAM!