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

Weekly Plans and Activities for February 20-23

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: of, have)

• T – (of) What hatches out of an egg? journal writing
• W –  (have) sight word book, When You Have A Pet
• Th – Winter Fluency Find It Game
• F – Last Name Graphing- How many letters are in your last name?),  Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• T – stretch out sound to write words with long a, i, count backwards from 25, fill in the ten frames
• W –digraphs (sh, th, ch), using number bonds to write a number sentence, reading sight word sentences with expression and counting words in a sentence
• Th –fill in the missing words to complete the sentence, decompose numbers, matching pictures to words
• F – Champs Assembly

Writing

• Introduce Animal Research, students will brainstorm and help write a list of animals, students will vote on the one that our class is going to research this week.
• Write about facts, habitat, and diet of the animal chosen from our list
• Continue Writing: 3rd We Deliver Class Letter, Continue Beginning, Middle, End Stories
• Valentine Words and Inspiration Pages free writing, students will write a letter to someone in the school
• Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist, review Writing A Letter anchor chart, introduce Story Retelling Map cards
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics
• How To Make A Heart – Interactive Writing
• Valentine Acrostic Poem – Interactive Writing
• 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 – If You Were A Minus Sign, Who Stole The Cookie From The Cookie Jar, 5 Little Speckled Frogs
• Poem – I Have, Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear
• Focus – NonFiction Vs. Fiction, features of nonfiction, sight words, chunks, Capitalization, Punctuation, Word Families
• Questions – KWL chart, 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, blending, deleting final phonemes

Math: (model the action of separating to represent subtraction)

• T – act out the 5 Green Speckled Frogs/write subtraction problems using the frogs/logs, create If You Were A Minus Sign subtraction picture for class book
• W – Subtraction Smash, Race to 20 on Large Number Line, Subtraction Bowling
  Th – MIMIO: Number Strings, Word Problem (Rabbit eating carrots)
• F – Read Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar and act out subtraction problems with cereal (cookies), students will  tell a subtraction story and then write a number sentence

Science/Social Studies

• T – Pebble Go! Animal Research
• T – Facts For Me, diet of animal
• W – Facts For Me, habitat of animal
• F – chart and vote for animal for group animal research next week, begin animal research for these animals

Hope you all have a great week!