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

What we will be learning the week of April 15-18:

• I Love You Ritual song: our song selector will choose a favorite I Love You Ritual each day this week
• Sight Word Review: review all sight words, go over sight word movement card

Morning Activities

• continue Grandparent’s Day writing (a favorite memory with your Grandparent)
• edit/revise zoo writing (favorite thing at the zoo)
• continue Fairy Tale writing
• Sight Word Concentration
• What Is Your Favorite Weather Graph
• Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance, when music stops students write down sight word called out

Morning Message:

• Daily Star Student – share something with class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capital, spacing, punctuation)
  • stretching sounds to write words, beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, rhyming words

Reading:

• Identify story elements of a fairytale, discuss main idea of fairytale  and connect it to their own personal experience. Compare/contrast fairy tale versions of the same story and retell the fairy tales
• books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar
• Have students complete sequencing page for the Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
• Noun Sort
• Poems: Spring is Here, I’m an Easter Bunny, The Funny Man
• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

Math:

• Introduce new game – Rollin, Rollin, Rollin, Numbers Undercover, and Doubles Undercover
• Measurement: Chart – How Tall am I? (using yarn)
• Measuring Shoes using square tiles
• Whole Group Eye Color Graph
• I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game (teen numbers)
• students will work in small groups. Each group has to come up with all of the ways to make the number on their chart paper. (teen numbers)
• Make Tally marks using pretzels
• Number Talk: Using Rekenreks, How many beads do you see? How do you see them?  subitize, counting strategies, finger fluency, different ways to show a number, ways to come up with that number.
• Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?
• Youtube: Subitizing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwUtg6O6H3k

Math Centers:

• Sort and Graph Jelly Beans (math by self)
• osmo math
• Cover up the sum or difference with a post-it that has a number sentence on it  and Problem Solving (horseshoe)
• Coin Rubbings and counting by 10’s headbands (Journals)
• Goldilocks Roll and Record with Teen Numbers (math with a partner

Writing

• Grandma/Grandpa Acrostic Poems
• Ways To Be Kind/Ways to be Unkind T-Chart
• Finish Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
• journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
• Continue setting and using writing goals
• Use Story Dice to roll different settings, character, and events. Continue writing fairy tales

Social Studies/Science:

Hope you all have a great week!!