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

What we will be learning the week of May 6-10

• I Love You Ritual song: our song selector will choose a favorite I Love You Ritual each day this week
• Sight Word Review/Spelling Words: is, it, like, little, me, she many

Morning Activities

• write the alphabet and first and last name
• write numerals 1-20 and first and last name
• use playdough and number mats, have students represent quantity of number
• create shapes using tangrams and pipe cleaners, draw shapes on paper
• Do You Like Rain Graph
• Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance, when music stops students write down sight word called out

Morning Message:

• Chart out a morning message with missing word parts (ing, ar, etc…) blends..
• Review Long Vowel Charts
• fix sentences (capital letters, spaces, sentences)
• write the missing blend
• make long vowel words

Reading:

• Story – We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, use story retelling bottles to retell story
• Franklin and The Thunderstorm, locate word parts throughout, make connections
• The Tiny Seed, Review parts of a flower, chart parts of a plant on anchor
• fin CVC and CVCE words in books, use marker boards to change CVC words into CVCE words, ex. hop/hope

Math:

• Draw teen #s on partners back. Partner has to guess the correct teen number.
• Partners roll 2 dice. First one to add up the sum wins!
• Decompose Number 5 using post-its
• Problem Solving: allow students to draw simple addition/subtraction scenarios and then write the number sentence that goes with it.
• match sum of dominoes to numerals on cards
• Practice tally marks using craft sticks.
• Measuring Shoes using square tiles
• Introduce new dice game, Tenzi, sums that equal 10
• 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
• Problem Solving (horseshoe)
• Pretzel Tally Marks (Journals)
• Goldilocks Roll and Record with Teen Numbers (math with a partner

Writing

• Create a color poem, show how to add describing words to make it more interesting
• Review how to make a list, make a list of Things That are Purple
• share zoo stories with class, look for capitalization, spaces, periods
• create ch/wh chart
• students will work by themselves or with a partner to create their own book on a topic of interest

Social Studies/Science:

Hope you all have a great week!!