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

We are sure enjoying the disquised turkeys being sent in! Our class has enjoyed sharing and looking at them each day. Some designs we have seen so far are: Harry Potter, Ariel, Popcorn, and a Christmas Tree! Thank you for working on this project as a family. This has been so fun for our students. Please continue to send in your disguised turkey’s this week as you get them completed.

November 5-9

This week we will be learning:

• I Love You Ritual song: Jack Be Noodle
• Penmanship: Letters: continue Yy, Ee, Ff, review letters and numbers
• Sight Words: do, get
• Reading: Ten Thankful Turkey’s ,Thanksgiving for Emily Ann,  Pete The Cat Thanksgiving, Turkey Trouble
  • Brainpop jr. Character and Setting
  • Make a Beginning, Middle, End Foldable
  • Group work, illustrate characters, setting, problem, and solution.
  • Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences
  • Graphic organizer with sequencing
  • erase a rhyme
  • Focus on sight words (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at, little, in, is, my, put, you, look, do, get)

• Poems:
  • I’m a Little Turkey
  • Go Get Some

Math:

• number talks – Show 3 dot cards with 5 (in different ways) on them. Discuss how many are on each card. Have them justify their thinking. “How do you know they all have 5 when they look so different?”
• Number Line Game: Partners each create their number line. They take turns removing a card while their partners eyes are closed. The partner has to figure out which number is missing.
• Game:: Teach Roll and Build
• Math Inventory Bags Investigations:
• Create 2D and 3D shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows
• Gobble, Gobble, Roll, Add, andCover
• Turkey Feather Count (with pipe cleaners and beads)
• Problem Solving – There were 5 turkeys. 2 turkeys ran away. How many turkeys are left?

Writing

• Turkey Story: Model-  Parts of book, create your own book 
• Students will work with a partner to create a book, review parts of a story
• journals – use sight words (color words and other sight words I, see, we, go, on, the, go, am, like, can, me, at, little, in, is, my, put, look, you, do, get)
• writing about personal experiences (focus on starting sentences with a capital letter, spacing between words, punctuation), reference our heart maps to get ideas of what to write about
• continue adding to our personal word wall in our writing folders and Use sentence frames to help us write\
• Finish Thanksgiving Paper Bag Book using our class thankful brainstorming chart
• lesson on writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)
• Thankful Sentences writing

• Social Studies/Science:
  • sharing family pictures and pages from our mascot and birthday journals
  • Why do leaves change colors?
  • Holiday Celebrations – Thanksgiving (brainpop jr.)
  • Fun Friday – Blessing Mix and Friendship Bracelet
  • The Night Before Thanksgiving book
  • Feeling Buddies: utilize partner chart we created last week for I Love You Rituals, continue learning the five-step self regulation process