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

*April 24th Field Day 12:30-2:30 (remember to send money/form for sno cones)

*April 27th our class will join Mrs. Dyess’s 2nd grade class and perform a CHAMPS assembly over WISDOM!

*All classes have been practicing extra hard for our upcoming Grandparent’s Day performance on May 4th. Please remember to send $10 for a shirt and addressed/stamped envelopes for the invitations.

*This weeks sight word review/spelling test will be for the words: put, said, saw, see, she Bonus Words: his, at

Weekly Activities:

Morning Activities and Writing

• T – Crack the Code (number words)
• W – Complete writing from last week
• Th – play-dough sight words
• F – Champs Assembly

Morning Message/Interactive Writing:

• Graphing – Do You Like the Rain
• Sneaky e
• Making a list
• editing our class zoo book
• Color Poem – adding descriptive words
• ch and wh words
• Phonics lessons: writing words with blends, solving the mystery sentence using beginning sounds

Writing

• Punctuation Song Posters
• Writer’s Workshop Anchor Chart
• Strategies to remember when writing and spelling words Anchor Chart
• Add Wondering Word Wall page to writing resource folder
• Finish Color Poems
• Continue Working on – Writing Beginning, Middle, End Stories (memory with Granparents)
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics and we will review Punctuation and Writing Checklist

Reading

• Books –  Going On A Bear Hunt, The Tiny Seed, Just Grandma and Me
• Finish making personal connections to The Three Bears
• Retell stories using puppets and readers theatre
• Question of The Day  (practice using the sight word yes/no)

Phonics Lessons  and Activities

• Practice CVCE words with magnetic letters on the board
• build CVCE words with students holding marker boards
• Long i Mimeo

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

• Ice Cream
• We Recycle

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

• Creating Graphs based on class surveys
• Finish Graphing Hair Color/Observations
• Finish Graphing – How Tall am I using yarn/picture
• Finish 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
• Number Talk: PowerPoint: What Does Not Belong? (Students will share which item does not belong and justify why.)
• Sorting Coins
• Money Emergent Readers

Science/Social Studies

• Grow a Bean In A Baggie, record observations
• Recycling (discuss why it is important)

Hope You Have A Great Week,

Stephanie Bradley