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

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: to, no)

• M –Roll a Sight Word, work on Beginning, Middle, End stories
• T – work on Beginning, Middle, End stories and WEE Deliver letters
• W – Hidden picture, identify and color numbers to reveal a picture
• Th – sight word tic tac toe
• F – Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• Monday-Thursday: Daily Star StudentShare something with the class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capitals, spacing, punctuation)

Writing

• Continue Animal Research group projects
• Continue Writing: Wee Deliver Letters and Beginning, Middle, End Stories
• March/Easter Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics and we will review Punctuation and Writing Checklist, review Writing A Letter anchor chart
• Continue makine, There’s A Wocket In My Pocket Class book
• If time permits, begin leprechaun trap writing

Reading (focus: Recalling facts in non fiction texts, positional words, using post-its to jot thinking)

• Books – And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Nonfiction Books, The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day, Leprechaun on the Loose
• Poem – Dr. Seuss – Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.
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• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- digraphs, cvc words/boxes, blending, deleting final phonemes

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

• M –Race to 10/20 using large number line, Clear the Deck Game (roll dice and add or take away cubes, 1st to clear the deck wins!), Subtraction Smash w/Play-Doh
• T – How to Make a Graph Chart, Complete Green Eggs and Ham Graph, Shamrock Sums, Race to 20 on Large Number Line, Subtraction Bowling, MIMIO: Crayon Math
• W – Brainpopjr Graph Videos: Pictographs, Tally Charts and Bar Graphs Chart, Introduce Game: Piggy Subtraction
• Th – Graphing Lucky Charms Cereal, Story Problems, Decomposing numbers (each group will make a chart)
• F – Read Caps for Sale and complete a hat graph according to color,

Science/Social Studies

• M – Library – History of St. Patrick’s Day
• T-W continue learn facts about animals for animal research project -Pebble Go and Facts For Me, diet and habitat of animalJonathan Bird’s Blue World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrkkQO9zVfA
• Th – Make Leprechaun Traps
• F – Walking Water (food coloring, paper towels, jars with water)

Hope you all have a great week!

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: home, not)

• M – (home) journal writing – Draw a picture of your home and write a sentence about it. My home is brown. My home has 3 bedrooms, etc.
• T –  (not) Draw two animals, one little and one big, write a sentence beside each animal. I am not little. I am little. Read Hubbard’s Cupboard reader: Animals at Night
• W – Hidden picture, identify and color numbers to reveal a picture
• Th – Make Dr. Seuss hat (at family)
• F – Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• M –digraphs (sh, th), long, i, make groups with same, 2 more, 2 less,
• T – stretch sounds/write words, rhyming words, counting 39-70, draw 10 frames to show how many
• W –digraphs (sh, th, ch), reading with expression, write number sentences
• T – fill in the missing words to complete the sentence, decompose numbers, matching pictures to words
• F – Champs Assembly

Writing

• Students will vote on 4 animals they would like to research the most and divide into four groups, this week each group will work together to research and write about facts, habitat, and diet of their groups chosen animal
• Continue Writing: We Deliver Letters, Continue Beginning, Middle, End Stories
• March Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics and we will review Punctuation and Writing Checklist, review Writing A Letter anchor chart
• There’s A Wocket In My Pocket Class book, students will design silly sentence strip hat and then make class book with them using preposition words

Reading

• Books – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket, Green Eggs And Ham, Fox In Sox, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Non Fiction Animal Books
• Poem – Dr. Seuss – Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.
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• Focus –Discuss Rhyming Words, Circle  Capital Letters, Underline punctuation marks, Highlight sight words, Look for chunks/word parts, match words
• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- digraphs, cvc words/boxes, blending, deleting final phonemes

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

• M – sort and graph colored goldfish, Clear the Deck Game (roll dice and add or take away cubes, 1st to clear the deck wins!)
• T – Subtraction Smash, Race to 20 on Large Number Line, Subtraction Bowling, MIMIO: Crayon Math, Graph (Are You Wearing Silly Socks?)
• W – Chart different ways to show 10, early release
• Th – Story Problems, Decomposing numbers (each group will make a chart)
• F – Read and Graph: Do you like Green Eggs?

Science/Social Studies

• M – learn facts about animals for animal research project – Jonathan Bird’s Blue World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrkkQO9zVfA
• T-W – Pebble Go and Facts For Me, diet and habitat of animal
• Th – Make Oobleck! Write steps followed to make recipe
• F – Make Green Eggs and Ham! Write steps followed to make recipe

Hope you all have a great week!

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!

**Reminder**

We are looking forward to our class Valentine’s Day Party this Wednesday, February 14th from 11:00-12:00. Please send in Valentine cards for the students in our class today or tomorrow and your child will pass those out to each of our Valentine bags. Thank you so much for all of the decorations you have sent in for our bags. Our class had so much fun making their Valentine bags and they all turned out beautiful!

Also, this week we are working on subtraction using real objects to tell subtraction stories. We are going to read the book, Peter Rabbit and then use carrots to make a subtraction story. If you are able to send in a bag of carrots, it would be very much appreciated.

Weekly Plans and Activities for February 12-16

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: was, because)

• M – February word bank, journal writing
• T –  number writing, using yarn to create textured numbers
• W – finding the word “was” in poem, Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear
• Th – Winter Fluency Find It Game (middle sounds)
• F – Yes/No Graphing (Does your first name have more letters than your last name?),  Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• M –digraphs (sh, th), identify middle sounds, long a sound, writing numbers (same, 2 more, 2 less)
• T – stretch out sound to write words with long o,i , rhyming words, count to 70, 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, finish the number bonds, matching pictures to words
• F – Champs Assembly

Writing

• Continue Writing: If I Had $100, 2nd We Deliver Class Letter, 2nd Beginning, Middle, End Story
• Valentine Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist, review Writing A Letter anchor chart, introduce Story Retelling Map cards
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics
• Students will write a letter to someone in the school
• 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 – The Littles Valentine, NonFiction Book – The Giant Squid, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Five Little Ducks, Five Little Monkeys
• Poem – Valentine Friendship, 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)

• M –Race to 10 and 20 using addition and subtraction with cubes
• T – Cupcake Subtraction word problem
• W – Valentine Party!!
  Th – MIMIO: Five Little Ducks and Number Strings
• F – Sing or Read Five Little Ducks and act out subtraction problems with rubber ducks, students will use cubes to tell a subtraction story and then write a number sentence

Science/Social Studies

• M – How Animals Prepare for Winter
• T – Chart Animals that Hibernate in Winter
• W – Valentine’s Day Party!!
• Th-F – Presidents Day, Brainpopjr. – George Wahsington and Abraham Lincoln

Hope you all have a great week!

Weekly Plans and Activities for February 5 – 9

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: saw, yes, are, because)

• M – sight word book, The Hearts (with, are, review: do, you, see, the, for)
• T – Journals (sight word: saw) 
• W – Penguin Mystery Picture, identifying numerals
• Th – Winter Fluency Find It Game (ending sounds)
• F – Yes/No Graphing (Does your first name have more letters than your last name?),  Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• M –digraphs (sh, ch), identify middle sounds, writing numbers (same, 1 more, 1 less)
• T – stretch out sound to write words, rhyming words, show one less than, counting by 10’s to 100
• W – blends (fl, sl, pl), 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 – Champs Assembly

Writing

• Continue Writing: If I Had $100, Complete Snow Stories, Winter Words, 2nd 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 begin a new story using Beginning, Middle, and End paper
• Students will brainstorm and write about Valentines/Love
• Students will write a letter to someone in the school
• 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 – Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons,  Hamilton Duck, A Letter For Amy, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo, The Day It Rained Hearts
• Poem – 100 Days of School, I Like Hearts
• Focus – Compound 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, blending, final phonemes, compound words

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

• M –Number Talk: I have ____ I wish I had ___.
• T – Use foam hearts to create addition number sentences.
• W –use the Pete the Cat Work Mat to model subtraction using buttons. 
  Th – MIMIO: Five Little Monkeys Subtraction
• F – Sing or Read Five Little Monkeys and act out subtraction problems with monkey puppets, students will color and paste monkeys on their page to make a subtraction story

Science/Social Studies:

• M – Brainpopjr: Seasons, review Social Studies Magazine and activities, students will draw themselves in their favorite season, wearing the clothing they would wear during that season.
• T – F Continue Chalk Shadows outside, review Holidays/Celebrations – Nature Cat – The Groundhog Way https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nature_cat_the_groundhog_way/nature-cat-the-groundhog-way/?#.Wm6f4ZM-dE8
• chart what students know and learn for each season

Hope you all have a great week!