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

It was a beautiful weekend! I hope you all were able to enjoy some of the pretty sunshine. We were able to fit in a picnic at the park and some baseball practice.

This week we will be learning:

• I Love You Ritual song: You Have Ten Little Fingers
• Sight Words: review of they, was, said, here, with, yes

Morning Activities

• Work on beginning, middle, and end writing
• Journal Writing using sight words
• Make newest sight words with playdough (With, they, here, said, was, yes)
• Winter Fluency Find It Game
• Yes/No Graphing/Question of the Day – Have You Built A Snowman?
• 100th Day Smarter Tie and Crowns

Reading:

• books: 100th Day Worries, 100th Day of School, Sneezy the Snowman, The Hat
• Long A and E chart
• Sort Characters that are in “The Hat”, students will use the retelling the sticks to retell the story.
• Characters in the Hat- alphabet sort
• Rhyming Words in the Hat
• Poems: Friends, Happy Birthday, 100 days
• Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems, locate _ay/-ow, come up with other words that have -ay and -ow

Math:

• our class will predict where we will end up if we take 100 steps, we will take 100 steps and see where we end up
• Play the 100 Hershey Kisses Scavenger Hunt Game, students will find numbered hershey kisses and place them on the corresponding number on our 100s chart.
• 5 Little Ducks Addition
• 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
• Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?

Math Centers:

• snowman number toss then build number on ten frame
• Math Activity: MIMIO: Comparing and Ordering Whole Numbers
• I have, Who Has, Math Game
• winter counting play-dough mats
• gumball addition game
• domino addition
• Counting by 10s mittens
• build 100 cup towers
• race to 100 dice game
• 100 fruit loops necklaces

Writing

• I Can Write 100 Words Class Chart
• When I Am 100, I Will…
• I’ve Been Told 100 Times…
• Interactive Writing: (with) students will write a sentence about foods they like using the word with, Ex: I want pizza with pepperoni
• Winter Animal Writing
• Introduce Writing a Letter Anchor Chart and talk about Wee Deliver Writing
• Review Writing Time Expectations
• Share 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
• lesson on spaces writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)

• Animal Research-Continue how to research animals using Pebblego.com-Research and make a list: What animals hibernate in the winter?
• Fun Friday – Snow Dough

Feeling Buddies:

• Feeling Buddles lesson 5 Listening to Your Feelings – To learn to listen to the core messages of our feelings, motivating healthy decidsion making and helpful behaviorSing #18 listen to your feelingsPlay game “guess my name”

  Write Feeling Buddies messages on sentence strip

  Play game “do you remember the message” 

  Sing #18listen to tyour feelings

Hope you all have a great week!!