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

This week we will be learning:

• I Love You Ritual song: Our S.T.A.R. helper will pick a previous favorite we have learned
• Penmanship: review of Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, 11-20
• Sight Words: they, was

Morning Activities

• Work on beginning, middle, and end writing from last week
• Journal Writing using sight word “they”
• Sight word (said) reader

• “The Mitten” Sight Word Reader (was)

• Sight Word Bingo
• Word Family Houses
• Digraph (sh, th, ch)

Reading:

• books: The Snowy Day, Sneezy the Snowman, The Mitten
• Fluency Find It Game – ending sounds, vowels
• Complete Sneezy the Snowman choices/actions
• Reading with Notes Anchor Chart – practice using post-its to think and record your thoughts as you read (Connections, Tricky Word, Lol, Favorite Part)
• Retelling Headbands from the story, The Mitten – our class will retell the story while students act it out
• Retell The Mitten by sequencing the characters:
• Poems:

Snow, Snow Fly Away!

I’m a Little Snowman

• • Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems, locate _ay/-ow, come up with other words that have -ay and -ow

Math:

• solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10 and modeling the action of joining to represent addition, explain the strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using spoken words, concrete and pictorial models, and number sentences
• Number Talk: Quick Images, I will flash this quick image for 5 seconds then students to build a copy of what they saw using inch grid paper and manipulative inch tiles
• Students will use inch manipulative tiles to create their own quick images. Once, they have created them they will use inch construction paper squares to glue them onto the inch grid paper and add a number sentence.
• Problem Solving – Read the book, If You Were a Plus Sign then model drawing a picture to tell a math story problem on chart paper. At the bottom of the paper write the addition number sentence. Students will then create their own picture story problem.

• Number Talk: complete chart Ways to make 10 using red/yellow magnetic counters (have students use their own magnetic ten frames to come up with the addition problems)
• Lesson: MIMIO: Comparing and Ordering Cards
• Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?
• What Does Not Belong? PowerPoint – students will share what doesn’t belong in the picture and why?

Math Centers:

• Count the Room
• snowman number toss then build number on ten frame
• Roll a die and make a web with that number. Use cheerios to compose different number sentences for that sum.
• Math Activity: MIMIO: Comparing and Ordering Whole Numbers
• I have, Who Has, Math Game
• winter counting play-dough mats
• gumball addition game

Writing

• Interactive Writing: How To Build a Snowman
• Winter Animal Writing
• Review Writing Time Expectations
• Continue writing stories with B/M/E
• Review anchor charts – What do writer’s Do? and I can tell a story!
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• journals – use sight words, word family houses
• 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 spaces writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)

• Week 13 Social Studies magazine (Weather)
• Animal Research-Continue how to research animals using Pebblego.com-Research and make a list: What animals hibernate in the winter?
• Fun Friday – SnowPainting

Feeling Buddies:

• Feeling Buddies Lesson 4.5 Flipping our Feelings: To understand we can manage and change our feelings by keeping them safe.

  Sing #10 Helping My Buddy

  Review Steps From Previous lesson

  Step 1 (your body signals you need to go to the safe place)

  Step 2 (calm down using a breathing strategy)

  Step 3 (pick a buddy that matches how you feel)

• Use Feeling Faces to teach flipping feelings

  Step 1: I am upset.

  Step 2, I Calm down by choosing one of our four breathing skills.

  Step 3: I Feel – pick the feeling buddy that matches how i feel

  Now I can flip my feeling to calm/happy.

  Sing Helping My Buddy #10.

Hope you all have a great week!!