Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on January 28, 2019
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)
Social Studies/Science:
- 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 – 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!!
Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on January 22, 2019
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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on January 12, 2019
We had such a great week! Our class loved making our class snowman in interactive writing and writing sentences to add to it. We are making great strides in writing! We are all using so many sight words in our writing. We are also beginning to add more detail to our stories. I am so proud of all of my kinders!! They are also doing a great job using their math strategies to solve story problems. They are gaining such strong understanding of numbers when they can explain their thinking in math!
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
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- 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)
Social Studies/Science:
- Mystery Doug video – why does it get cold in winter
- 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!!
Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on January 7, 2019
