We had a great week back! I loved hearing about all of the fun the kiddos had over the break!

The kiddos are learning how to write a story with a beginning, middle and end, and they are proving to do a great job adding those details! I couldn’t be more proud.

We made SNOW on Friday, and the JOY I saw all over their faces was PRICELESS!

The kinders also enjoyed going to our first CHAMPS Assembly of the year about respect! We will have one every Friday! Pictures to come soon!

Here is a look into our upcoming week:

Morning Activities:

-Journal Writing: incorporating the sight word they

-Fluency Folder Readers Theaters

-Sight Word Booklet: What Can We Do in the Snow? (word: said)

-Sight Word Booklet: The Mitten (word: was)

-Sight Word/Teen Number Bingo

–Sight Words:

-they, was review: said, here

-Letters: Review: Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll

-Numbers: Teen Numbers 11-20

I Love You Ritual: Song Selector’s Choice

Morning Messages:

• Digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh), middle vowels, 1 more/1 less/same
• Stretch out words, count to 70, make quantities in a ten frame
• Blends, match picture to correct word, subtraction
• Stretch out CVC words, rhyming practice
• Lighter/Heavier, Number Bonds

Phonics Skills: Review: -ay, -ing, digraphs, and blends

Poems:

Snow, Snow, Fly Away

*locate _ay/-ow

Come up with other words that have -ay and -ow

Long E

*locate long e sounds (ee, ea, cvce)

Review: I’m a Little Snowman and The Bumblebee

*We locate capital letters, punctuation, rhyming words, sight words, digraphs, blends, long/short vowels and match sight words/letters, change words to different/similar words, etc…

Centers:

Busy Bee Center Rotations (See literacy stations blog post for more details of the centers that we will be doing this week)

 

Interactive Writing:

-How to build a Snowman Procedural Writing

(incorporating transition words)

-Continue modeling Beginning, Middle End Story, share pen with students

-Brainpopjr: Writing Process

Reading Skills: retelling, story elements

-Reading Activities:

–Read Sneezy the Snowman

*Discuss Sneezy’s actions and what happened as a result.

-Read The Mitten

-Use post-its to jot thinking

-Retell the story with retelling strips

-Retelling Headbands and white sheet, call on students to wear character headbands from the mitten, use a white sheet for the mitten, have class retell the story while students act it out

 

-Draw a big mitten on the floor using tape. Have students make popsicle characters and act out the story.

-Chart Story Elements

-Sequence what animals went into the mitten

 

Reading Anchor:

Math Skills: solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10 and modeling the action of joining to represent addition. Explain strategies used to solve word problems

 

Number Corner:

-Calendar, months of the year, days of the week, counting forward/backwards and by tens, 1 more/1 less, days in school, Ways to Show a Number:

 

Number Talks:

-Quick Images (students make what they think they saw)

-Addition Number Sentence

-Dot Cards

-Rekenreks

 

-Math by Myself Options:

-Create Quick Images on Inch Grid Paper and come up with an addition sentence to justify the image total.

-After reading, If You Were a Plus Sign, have the students create their own picture story problem.

 

-Math with Someone Options:

-Flash Card Addition with unifix cubes (each # is a diff. color)

-Number Line with link chains (2 colors to make number)

-Put snowmen numbers in order 1-20

-snowman number toss/ten frame

 

-Snowman hat/button match up

-Make shapes using geoboards

-comparing/contrasting shapes 2d/3d

-comparing numbers using unifix cards

-winter playdoh mats

-gumball addition

-Use magnetic shapes or pattern blocks to create new shapes

-Tenzy

 

-Math in Writing:

-Different ways to make 5 (composing 5):

 

-Continue Class Game:

• Math Activity: MIMIO: Comparing and Ordering Whole Numbers:

Writer’s Workshop Activities:

-Review Writing Time Expectations

-Leaving Spaces (spaghetti and meatballs)

-Continue writing stories with B/M/E

-Review What do writer’s Do?

-Review I can tell a story!

-Continue using writing goals and discussing writing commitments

-Writing using clues to describe an animal

-Reference these Charts:

-Continue using writing reference folders as a resource

Feeling Buddies:

Feeling Buddies

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 angry.

Step 2, I Calm down by choosing one of our four skills

Step 3: I feel by picking the feeling buddy that matches how i feel.

Now I can flip to calm/happy.

Sing Helping My Buddy #10.

 

Social Studies/Science: Animal Research

-Animals in Winter

-Review how to research animals using Pebblego.com

-Research: What animals hibernate in the winter?

(make a chart to go with it)

-Mystery Doug: Why is snow white?

-Social Studies Magazine: Weather

 

FUN FRIDAY: Snowman art using glue and shaving cream:

 

This week is going to be OUTSTANDING!

 

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had a FANTASTIC Holiday Break! I have missed my sweet kiddos so much and am so EXCITED to see them bright and early in the morning!

Below is an outline of what we have planned for the upcoming week:

Morning Activities:

-Journal: Word Family Houses

-Fluency Folder Partner Readers

-Journal: Free Writing (incorporating all learned sight words)

-Class Graph (Did you have cereal for breakfast?)

-Penmanship Practice with letters and #s

-Self Portrait (What I look like in 2019)

–Sight Words:

-said, here

–Sight Word Songs:

*Here song to Adam’s Family Tune

-H-e-r-e snap, snap

H-e-r-e snap, snap

I can spell here,

I can spell here,

H-e-r-e snap, snap

Said song to BINGO

There is a sight word I just learned and said was it’s name-o

s-a-i-d, s-a-i-d, s-a-i-d

and said was it’s name-o!

-Letters: Review: Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll

-Numbers: Teen Numbers 11-20

I Love You Ritual: Song Selector’s Choice

Morning Message:

-Mystery Person: making new words using magnetic letters out of someone’s name.

-Digraph (sh, th, ch), Medial sounds, 1 more/1 less

-Stretch out words, Count to 60, draw quantity to match a #, What are some things associated with a snowman?

-Beginning blends, How many words?, Subtraction practice

Reading Skills: retelling, comparing/contrasting, making predictions

-Reading Activities:

-Predict what snowmen do at night before reading the book Snowmen at Night.

Then, use post-its to jot what they actually do at night.

-Retell the story, There was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow.

-Compare/Contrast 2 different snow stories.

-Read The Snowy Day.

Then, retell the story using retelling

prompts. Reference retelling anchor:

-Retell The Snowy Day story again. Create anchor of how they would spend a snowy day:

Poems:

I’m a Little Snowman and The Bumblebee

*We locate capital letters, punctuation, rhyming words, sight words, digraphs, blends, long/short vowels and match sight words/letters, change words to different/similar words, etc…

Centers:

Busy Bee Center Rotations (See literacy stations blog post for more details of the centers that we will be doing this week)

 

Interactive Writing: Draw and label a snowman. Write sentences to describe the snowman:

Writer’s Workshop Activities:

-Review Rules of Kindergarten

-Review Writing Time Expectations

-Begin writing stories with B/M/E

-Review What do writer’s Do?

-Review I can tell a story!

-Begin using writing goals and discussing writing commitments

-Reference these Charts:

-Continue using writing reference folders as a resource

Feeling Buddies:

Feeling Buddies

4.4 Using the Feeling Buddies in the Safe Place

Read Sophie is a STAR or Shubert is a STAR, hold up feeling buddies throughout the book that match the feelings on Sophie’s face

Discuss name of that feeling.

Ask, “Why do you think it is important to have a safe place in our classroom.
Review 1st three steps. 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)

Sing #29 Yes I Can

Math Skills: solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10 and modeling the action of joining to represent addition.

 

Number Corner:

-Calendar, months of the year, days of the week, counting forward/backwards and by tens, 1 more/1 less, days in school

 

Number Talks:

-What Does Not Belong?

-Ways to Make Ten

-Dot Cards

-Rekenreks

-Math by Myself Options:

First, Before and After Math Number Work Page or Count the Room:

 

-Math with Someone Options:

-Flash Card Addition with unifix cubes (each # is a diff. color)

-Number Line with link chains (2 colors to make number)

-Put snowmen numbers in order 1-20

-snowman number toss/ten frame

 

-Snowman hat/button match up

-Make shapes using geoboards

-comparing/contrasting shapes 2d/3d

-comparing numbers using unifix cards

-winter playdoh mats

-gumball addition

-any math center you have introduced

 

-Math in Writing:
Roll a die or dice. Make a web with that number. Use cheerios or object of choice to compose different number sentences for that sum. If that is too tricky, just have them compose the number in different ways and draw it.

 

-Class Game:

• Math Activity: MIMIO: Comparing and Ordering Whole Numbers:

Social Studies/Science: Animal Research

-Animals in Winter

-Introduce how to research animals using Pebblego.com

-Research: What animals hibernate in the winter?

(make a chart to go with it)

 

FUN FRIDAY: Make SNOW!!!!!

 

I know this week is going to be AWESOME!