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

Weekly Plans and Activities for January 29 – February 2

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: are, what)

• M – 100th Day of School Celebration Day, 100th Day Smarter Tie/Crown
• T – sight word book (are)
• W – sight word writing (what). What is that? That is a ____. (Students draw picture and write word)
• Th – Winter Fluency Find It Game (ending sounds)
• F – Yes/No Graphing (Will the Groundhog See His Shadow?),  Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• M –We Can Write 100 Words, begin 100 exercises
• T – stretch out sound to write words, show one more than, counting from 30-60
• W – blends (fr, tr, gr), write a number sentence (subtraction), reading sight word sentences with expression and counting words in a sentence
• Th –fill in the missing words to complete the sentence, finish the number bonds, matching pictures to words
• F – “ip” word family, rhyming words

Writing

• Interactive Writing: If I Had $100, Complete Snow Stories, Winter Words, 1st We Deliver Class Letter
• Winter Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist, introduce Writing A Letter anchor chart
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics
• Students will complete their snow day writing using a Beginning, Middle, and End paper
• Parts of a Story song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSyrFfz55xo
• Writing is Cool! Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDkKgMXdyk
• The Sentence Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wrv_ZviMEc
• Parts of a letter songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKy4hV6WnA

Reading:

• Books – 100th Day of School Click Clack Moo, A Letter For Amy, Benny’s Pennies, The Misson of Addition
• Poem – Arctic Animals, 100 Days of School
• Focus – rhyming words, sight words, chunks, Capitalization, Punctuation, Word Families
• Questions – Retell Beginning, Middle, End…, In the Beginning…, Next…, At the end…, What does this remind you of (connections)
• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- cvc words/boxes, diagraphs “ch” “sh” “th”, sight word chants, rhyming words, blends (fl, gl, sl)

Math: (solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10, strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using spoken words, concrete and pictorial models, and number sentences)

• M – 100 cups towers, 100 steps prediction, 100 mystery picture
• T – Problem Solving, Decomposing the Number 5 with Penny Toss game,
• W –Rekenreks, Spill and Add Game, Valen-Teens Math center, Teen Number Cards
  Th – Reverse Problem Solving, Money Addition
• F – Dot Cards, Decomposing Anchor Chart using sticky notes to show all the different ways you can make 5, Bears in A Cave Story Problem

Science/Social Studies:

• M – 100th Day Trail Mix
• T – Holidays/Celebrations – Nature Cat – The Groundhog Way https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nature_cat_the_groundhog_way/nature-cat-the-groundhog-way/?#.Wm6f4ZM-dE8
• W – Brainpop Jr. – Ground Hog Day
• T – Pebble Go, learning about research and Winter Animals
• F – Groundhog Day by Gail Gibbons, Fun Friday! Chalk Shadows

Hope you all have a great week!