Hello friends! Week seven is all planned and we have communities, asking and answering questions, research writing, describing different types of jobs, finishing our initial alphabet introduction, and counting in different arrangements within seven all up this week! Reading: Text suggestions: Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do, Whose Tools Are These?, Building with Dad, ABC Firefighters, Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood We will continue to work on asking and answering questions before,...
Happy week six of kindergarten! I actually plan these a week ahead of time, so I'm about to head into week five with my little loves. However, planning ahead has me SO excited for what this week will bring... I have a favorite book when it comes time teach asking and answering questions, and it's Jon Klassen's This is Not My Hat. I love the simple illustrations and the creativity a reader is able to...
I rearranged my schedule a little bit this week. I am finding that I need to use my time after lunch as my writer's workshop time, rather than before. I am going to try out this schedule this week, and see how they progress. Wish us luck! Reading: Our theme this week is fairytales. I chose Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs as our two anchor texts this week. The...
I love to create behavior interventions that kids are excited about! This one I created for a Mario-loving friend. For each part of our day he meets his goals, we color in a coin. If he earns 3 or more coins, he gets a 5 minute reward during our dismissal time (iPad, playdoh, blocks...something simple!) I chose to make this black line so we can start fresh with a new copy each day. His mom...
Hello friends! I just finished my plans for week four of kindergarten! Phew. I like to plan a full week at a time to encourage myself to make cross-curricular connections and have a even flow of learning. This week was difficult because there is a TON of content, but only four days of school! I had to juggle some things around to keep myself on track. You will notice on my plans, I don't list...
In my last post, I shared some whole-group name-games I have picked up over the last couple of years. However, students also have to learn to read and write their names as quickly as possible when they get back to school! Here are some of my favorite classroom routines and activities we use to get name writing! 1. Dry-erase sleeves: Download a tracer font, and write their name several times on a piece of paper....
Hello friends! Every week, I pick a social-emotional learning focus for my class. This week, my big idea was been building a sense of belonging: and the skill we focused on was using names when addressing others. Are you working on names and name recognition in your class? Here are a few of my FAVORITE whole group activities for the first week or two. These are a great way to get all students using the...
We just finished up week two of kindergarten this past Friday! I always spent weeks two and three focusing on student names--both recognition and writing. Most of my students come in unable to write their names, but sticking down name plates on their tables my first year drove me crazy--they were pricey to buy with reference materials on them, it was time-consuming tape them down, and then I would turn around to find they have...
