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

This week we will be learning:

• I Love You Ritual song: Your Fingers Are So Sleepy
• Penmanship: Letters: Uu, Ss, Zz review of numbers 1-20
• Sight Words: it, for, and

Reading:

• books: The Gingerbread Man Loose At Christmas, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A beel, Gingerbread Friends
• make inferences based on cover, title, illustrations and plot
• Make a Beginning, Middle, End Foldable
• Group work: illustrate characters, setting, problem, and solution.
• sequencing and predicting – students will help complete a sequencing anchor chart using notecards
• Poems: 5 Little Gingerbread Men, Peppermint Stick
• Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems
• sight words we have learned so far: (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at, little, in, is, my, put, you, look, do, get, he, she, it, for, and)
• phonics: erase a rhyme, deleting final sounds, diagraph /sh/

Math:

• compare sets of objects up to 20 in each set using comparative language and use comparative language to describe two numbers up to 20 presented as written numerals.
• Brainpop Jr. Comparing Numbers,  Comparing Numbers, Comparing Sets of Numbers, and Ways I Can Do Math Anchor Chart
• number talks –Number Strings PowerPoint, “What do you see? How do you see it? What do you notice about the 3 different pictures?” and dot cards with the number 7, students will draw the number 7 in different ways in their journal
• Play pass the dot card game
• Counting Jar, counting backwards to double check amount in jar
• 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.
• Measurement Towers Use 10 – students will compare if the cube tower is longer/taller, or shorter/smaller than items
• Comparing Numbers Achor Chart – More, Fewer, Same

Math Centers:

• Finish Math Inventory Bags Investigations
• Create individual math problems using gingerbread men stickers
• Christmas Spin and Graph
• Christmas Tree Number Order Craft
• Hot Chocolate Addition
• Comparing Numbers Card Game

Writing

• Students will continue work with a partner to create a book, review parts of a story
• review using capitalization and punctuation
• review using spaces in between words
• review drawing a 3 star picture
• 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, he, she, it, for, and)
• Labeling a Reminder – directed student drawing
• 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
• lesson on writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)
• How To Decorate a Christmas Tree class chart

Social Studies/Science:

• sharing family pictures and pages from our mascot and birthday journals
• Continue Lesson on Needs and Wants
• Continue lesson on Solids, Liquids, and Gases – Make Snowman Glue Ornament (from liquid to solid)
• brainstorm list of questions to ask Santa, submit questions in preparation of online Santa chat next week
• candy sink or float, graph prediction and result
• create Christmas Bread ornaments
• Fun Friday – Make gingerbread playdough
• Feeling Buddies: continue lesson on Making Friends with my buddies, students learn how to accept our emotional states instead of pushing them away, discuss common classroom situations/problems, list hurtful words they might say when anger gets ahold of them. Then write helpful words they might say when they calm down and are able to engage the thinking part of their brains.

Hope you all have a great week!!