Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans
Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 1-5) th Week – May 4 – 8 th Day – Monday, May 4 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students study print and book awareness (sentence structure) Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students decide what characters in a play will do and say Students practice with classification and pronouns ‘he, she, it’ Students understand and study poetry Students will begin to work with money (coins) Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Activate Prior knowledge – discuss the author and illustrator of “Swimmy” Vocabulary – School Reading – “Swimmy” – Students will read and discuss the story. Encourage students to ask questions if they do not understand a portion of the reading. Reading / Language Arts Math Phonics Comprehension Strategies – Visualization and Predicting– Students will be encourages to visualize pictures in their head based on what the book is describing. Find description words. Students will also be encouraged to predict the outcome of the story. English Language Conventions – Pronouns – Language Arts Skills page. 76-77 – Students will learn about pronouns ‘he, she and it’ and review ‘you and I’. Math Review Warm Up – Rhyme Games – Students will create rhymes based on specific directions “What rhymes with mix but starts with /f/?” Phonemic Awareness – Final Consonants – Students will complete words that are missing the final consonants sounds. Alphabetic Principle – Review Xx – Students will practice identifying the letter Xx in words. Sounds and Letters page 114-115 Science / Social Studies Handwriting Students will discuss colors, shapes and sizes of ocean creatures Writing Process Strategies – Getting Ideas – “What am I” poem – Students will read short riddles and poems to find clues about an object. They will practice writing their own short riddles and clues about an object from home. Word Analysis – Classification - Colors – Students will create lists of items that fall under the colors red, blue and green. Review Reading – “Swimmy” Discuss the descriptive words and the pictures imagined based on the text. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will write descriptive sentences about an object from home. Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Reading Recommendation – Use picture clues to predict what will happen next in a story Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 1-5) th Week – May 4 – 8 th Day – Tuesday, May 5 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students study print and book awareness (sentence structure) Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students decide what characters in a play will do and say Students practice with classification and pronouns ‘he, she, it’ Students understand and study poetry Students will review addition / subtraction / time / counting Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “Swimmy” – Students will use Table of Contents to find our story and find the title, author and illustrator. Build background and activate prior knowledge Vocabulary – Creatures Reading – “Swimmy” – Read the story and stop to identify and discuss descriptive words. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Compare / Contrast – Students will practice with comparing and contrasting parts of the story and characters. English Language Conventions – Grammar – Students will practice identifying pronouns ‘he, she and it’. Students will locate pronouns in our story and practice replacing existing words with the correct pronoun. Math Math Review Warm Up – People Sentences – Students will take turns adding words to create full sentences. Phonics Phonemic Awareness – Phoneme Replacement – Final consonants – Students will complete words that are missing the final consonants sounds. Students will also practice counting phonemes using segmentation. Alphabetic Principle – Students will work with the letter sound /z/. Sounds and Letters page 116-117 Science / Social Studies Students will discuss colors, shapes and sizes of ocean creatures Writing Process Strategies – Planning – Writers Workbook page 38– Students will practice drawing pictures of things that rhyme. (toy, boy….run,sun) Handwriting Word Analysis – Classification – Ocean Life. Create categories for ocean life animals after discussing details about different animals that live in the water and create lists. Review Reading – “Swimmy” – Students will review the focus questions for the story and answer them together. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will practice writing rhyming words in their journals Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Reading Recommendation – Use picture clues to predict what will happen next in a story Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 1-5) th Week – May 4 – 8 th Day – Wednesday, May 6 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students study print and book awareness (sentence structure) Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students decide what characters in a play will do and say Students practice with classification and pronouns ‘he, she, it’ Students understand and study poetry Students will review addition / subtraction / time / counting Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “Swimmy” – Locate the title of the book, the author and illustrator. Discuss how the pictures represent the story. Vocabulary – Midday Reading – “Swimmy” – Review what we have learned and new vocabulary as we read. Encourage students to ask about any unknown words and discuss their meaning. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Predicting and Visualizing – Students will guess what is going to come next in the story by looking at the pictures and using context clues. English Language Conventions – Grammar – Practice replacing words in each students “What Am I” poem with the correct pronouns. Math Math Review Warm Up – Word Braids – Students will practice making new rhyming words by changing the initial consonant and form a people word braid around the room. Phonics Phonemic Awareness – Identify and count phonemes – Students will practice putting together entire words after only the phonemes are spoken. Alphabetic Principle – Students will practice activities that encourage them to listen for the initial consonant /z/. They will practice identifying it at the beginning, middle and end of words. Sounds and Letters page 118-119. Science / Social Studies Students will discuss colors, shapes and sizes of ocean creatures Writing Process Strategies – Writing – Writers Workbook page 39 – Students will write a “What Am I?” poem about the item they had previously drawn and discussed. Handwriting Word Analysis – Classification – Body Parts– Students will list as many body parts they can think of. Discuss what type of body parts the characters in our story have. Review Reading – “Swimmy”- Students will take turns discussing details of the story as a group until we have recalled all the details we read about. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will write sentences and replace words with the proper pronouns. Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Home Connections Reading Recommendation – Use picture clues to predict what will happen next in a story Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 1-5) th Week – May 4 – 8 th Day – Thursday, May 7 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students study print and book awareness (sentence structure) Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students decide what characters in a play will do and say Students practice with classification and pronouns ‘he, she, it’ Students understand and study poetry Students will review addition / subtraction / time / counting Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “Swimmy” – Students will review new vocabulary words presented in the story. Story Crafting – Working with the New : Students will work on creating their own thoughts, pictures and picture descriptions. Students will use pictures from our story “Swimmy” and will order them correctly to match the events from the story. Students will identify problems and solutions presented to Swimmy from our story. They will discuss how Swimmy solved the problems presented to him from other characters. Reading / Language Arts KBLM pg. 36-27 – Students will use these pictures sentences to order the story and practice telling it using the picture clues only. Group Work – Students will read their pictures to tell a story to their friends in the class. English Language Conventions – Listening, speaking, viewing – Students will model the actions taken by Swimmy in our story…. Listening to a friend and retelling what they have learned. Math Math Review Warm Up – “I am thinking of something that starts with _____” game. Phonics Science / Social Studies Phonemic Awareness – Identifying and counting phonemes – Students will continue to practice putting together phonemes to make a complete word. Alphabetic Principle – Students will practice identifying words that start with /w/. Together students will read Big Book Alphabet “Frog’s Lullaby” and count how many words start with W. Students will discuss colors, shapes and sizes of ocean creatures Writing Process Strategies – Revising – Students will revise their “What Am I” poems to make sure the words make sense and that they are using plenty of descriptive words. Handwriting Word Analysis – Classification – animals – Students will create lists of animals with shells and animals with scales. Review Reading – “Swimmy”- Students will retell the events from the story in the correct order using ordering words (first, next last…) Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will practice writing sentences and identifying the descriptive and action words. Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - None Reading Recommendation – Use picture clues to predict what will happen next in a story Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 1-5) th Week – May 4 – 8 th Day – Friday, May 8 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students study print and book awareness (sentence structure) Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students decide what characters in a play will do and say Students practice with classification and pronouns ‘he, she, it’ Students understand and study poetry Students will review addition / subtraction / time / counting Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Review everything we have learned about Patriotism and National Symbols Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text – Students will begin writing their own play. They will focus on characters, dialogue, problems and resolutions. They will get together in groups and act out their plays for practice. They will perform these plays in front of an audience. Reading / Language Arts Investigation Activity – Students will make scenery for their plays and collect props needed for the story. They will practice with their scenery and props Reading – Decodable books – Students will read decodable book 12 and practice with rate, speed and expression. They will practice reading to each other and in front of the classroom. Math Phonics Science / S.S. / Speaking Handwriting Students will read Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories “First Things First” – Why does Phil have difficulty completing tasks? Math Review Warming Up – Rhyme game – Students will continue to play their rhyme games by replacing the initial consonant sound. Phonemic Awareness – Final consonants – Students will practice adding the last half of a word to make a whole word. Alphabetic Principle – Students will practice with recognizing the letter /w/. Sounds and Letters pg. 120-121 Students will create a short commercial about saving our endangered sea life Writing Process Strategies – Checking and sharing – Students will share their “What Am I” poems with a partner and they will check each others work for errors and offer advice. Word Analysis – Classification - animals – Students will group new vocabulary into the categories colors, animals and body parts. English Language Conventions – Penmanship – Students will practice writing their numbers and letters (upper and lower case) Review Reading – “Swimmy” - Students will review what they have learned from our story this week. Closing Meeting Enrichment Classes Home Connections Journal Entry – Students will summarize what they have learned this week about our flag, Presidents, National Anthem and National Symbols. Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - Page 75, Swimmy Reading Recommendation – Use picture clues to predict what will happen next in a story Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 6-10) th Week – May 11 – 15 th Day – Monday, May 11 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice work on oral blending – blending words in context Students will practice with segmentations and adding phonemes to make word changes Students study sentence structure and ending marks Students will use asking questions and predictions for comprehension skills Students will conduct experiments about fresh water / salt water life Students will review antonyms and practice writing sentences using antonym revisions Students will practice writing billboards Students will be working with geometric shapes and fractions Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Activate Prior knowledge – discuss the author and illustrator of “A Walk By the Seashore” Reading – “A Walk By the Seashore” – Students will read and discuss the story. Encourage students to ask questions if they do not understand a portion of the reading. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Visualization – Students will be encourages to visualize pictures in their head based on what the book is describing. Find description words. English Language Conventions – Grammar Review – Language Arts Skills page. 82-83 – Words that name people Math Phonics Math – Geometric shapes and fractions Warm Up – Focusing on words in print – Replace beginning sounds of words in common rhymes. “Peter Piper” Phonemic Awareness – Oral Blending – Practice putting together words that have been segmented out. Students will also practice erasing initial sounds and saying the word that is left. “teach / each” Alphabetic Principle – Sounds and Letters pg. 132-133 – Students will practice completing sentences with the correct word choice. Students will also work on blending sounds to create words. Science / Social Studies Handwriting Students will discuss ocean creatures that are endangered and how we can help them Writing Process Strategies – Persuasive writing – Students will practice writing persuasive arguments. They will make an advertisement to get a friends business. Word Analysis – Classification - Size – Island , rock, sand – Students will classify these subjects by sizes. Review Reading – “A Walk By the Seashore” Discuss the descriptive words and the pictures imagined based on the text. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will practice writing a persuasive entry based on a given topic Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Reading Recommendation – Write down all unknown vocabulary while reading at home and bring to class! Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 6-10) th Week – May 11 – 15 th Day – Tuesday, May 12 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice work on oral blending – blending words in context Students will practice with segmentations and adding phonemes to make word changes Students study sentence structure and ending marks Students will use asking questions and predictions for comprehension skills Students will conduct experiments about fresh water / salt water life Students will review antonyms and practice writing sentences using antonym revisions Students will practice writing billboards Students will be working with geometric shapes and fractions Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “The Ocean” – Students will use Table of Contents to find our story and find the title, author and illustrator. Build background and activate prior knowledge Vocabulary – seahorse Reading – “The Ocean” – Read the story and stop to identify and discuss descriptive words. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Visualizing and Predicting – Students will determine what will happen next using context clues from the story. Students will also visualize the ocean creatures based on their descriptions. English Language Conventions – Grammar – Students will identify words that name from our story “The Ocean”. They will also identify pronouns from the story (focus on it, they and you). Math Math – Geometric shapes and fractions Warm Up – Clapping out syllables – Students will clap out syllables for the rhyming words in “Three Little Kittens” Phonics Phonemic Awareness – Segmentation and Oral Blending – students will practice taking portions of words, sounding them out and blending them together. Alphabetic Principle – Students will work on identifying initial and final consonant sounds using rhyming couplets. Science / Social Studies Handwriting Students will discuss ocean creatures that are endangered and how we can help them Writing Process Strategies – Persuasive poster - Students will draw their persuasive posters in their writers workbook pg. 44. Discuss what a persuasive posters does and how it is helpful in the community. Word Analysis – Classification – Sea Animals. Classify sea animals as having legs or no legs. Review Reading – “The Ocean” – Students will review the focus questions for the story and answer them together. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will practice writing persuasive arguments in their journals – Which endangered animal should we help? Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Reading Recommendation – Write down all unknown vocabulary while reading at home and bring to class! Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 6-10) th Week – May 11 – 15 th Day – Wednesday, May 13 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice work on oral blending – blending words in context Students will practice with segmentations and adding phonemes to make word changes Students study sentence structure and ending marks Students will use asking questions and predictions for comprehension skills Students will conduct experiments about fresh water / salt water life Students will review antonyms and practice writing sentences using antonym revisions Students will practice writing billboards Students will be working with geometric shapes and fractions Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “The Ocean” – Locate the title of the book, the author and illustrator. Discuss how the pictures represent the story. Vocabulary – ocean Reading – “The Ocean” – Review what we have learned and new vocabulary as we read. Encourage students to ask about any unknown words and discuss their meaning. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Compare and contrast - Students will compare and contrast characters in the story and characters from other similar stories. English Language Conventions – Grammar – Students will use their persuasive posters to identify words that name people, objects, animals and places. Math Math – Geometric shapes and fractions Warm Up – Word Order – While listening to common poems, students will detect mix ups in word order and correct. Phonics Phonemic Awareness – Oral blending and segmentation – Students will separate word sounds in words and practice with segmentation by grouping word sounds individually and combining them again. Alphabetic Principle – Working with sounds / linking sounds – “The ship is loaded with ____?” games Science / Social Studies Students will discuss different ways we can help protect our oceans and keep them clean for the creatures Writing Process Strategies – Persuasive Writing – Writers Workbook page 45 – Students will write special words for their posters that encourage persuasive writing. Handwriting Word Analysis – Classification – size– students will classify animals as small or large. They will use ocean animals for this activity. Review Reading – “The Ocean”- Students will take turns discussing details of the story as a group until we have recalled all the details we read about. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will write sentences and replace words with the proper pronouns. Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Home Connections Reading Recommendation – Write down all unknown vocabulary while reading at home and bring to class! Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 6-10) th Week – May 11 – 15 th Day – Thursday, May 14 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice work on oral blending – blending words in context Students will practice with segmentations and adding phonemes to make word changes Students study sentence structure and ending marks Students will use asking questions and predictions for comprehension skills Students will conduct experiments about fresh water / salt water life Students will review antonyms and practice writing sentences using antonym revisions Students will practice writing billboards Students will be working with geometric shapes and fractions Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “The Ocean” – Students will review new vocabulary words presented in the story. Story Crafting – Expanding Story Knowledge – Students will work with various stories that have plot complications. Students will identify the possible solutions characters went through in order to find a solution. Students will take turn identifying the problems the characters face and offer possible solutions for them. Reading / Language Arts KBLM pg. 39 – Students will complete the character worksheet and share their characters with the class. Group Work – Students will work in small groups and work on creating parts of a story – beginning, a solution to a problem, and a happy ending. Students will write their story and draw pictures to go along. English Language Conventions – Presenting – Pantomime: Students will pretend to be different animals as the others guess without making a sound. Math Math – Geometric shapes and fractions Warm Up – Focusing on words in print – Students will identify rhyming words, pronouns and words that name in our story. Phonics Science / Social Studies Handwriting Phonemic Awareness – Oral Blending – Students will continue working on segmenting and blending words by grouped sounds and individual letter sounds. Alphabetic Principle – Students will create silly sentences. Students will also identify words that have similar sounds. Sounds and Letters pg. 134-135 Students will discuss ocean creatures that are endangered Writing Process Strategies – Persuasive poster – Students will complete work on their persuasive posters. Word Analysis – Classification – colors – Students will classify the sea animals from our story by their colors. Review Reading – “The Ocean”- Students will retell the events from the story in the correct order using ordering words (first, next last…) Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will practice writing pronoun sentences for he, she, it, we, you, they. Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - Home Connection pg. 93 Story Crafting Reading Recommendation – Write down all unknown vocabulary while reading at home and bring to class! Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 6-10) th Week – May 11 – 15 th Day – Friday, May 15 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice work on oral blending – blending words in context Students will practice with segmentations and adding phonemes to make word changes Students study sentence structure and ending marks Students will use asking questions and predictions for comprehension skills Students will conduct experiments about fresh water / salt water life Students will review antonyms and practice writing sentences using antonym revisions Students will practice writing billboards Students will be working with geometric shapes and fractions Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Discuss “the Ocean” and the order the animals appear. Use clue from book if needed. Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text – Students will begin making a science journal about ocean and sea life. They will practice drawing each animals they learned about from our story and will write the name of each animals on each page. Reading / Language Arts Investigation Activity – Students can do guided research using books and the internet to find out more information about their sea creatures. Reading – Decodable books – Students will read decodable book 17 “A Bump” and practice with rate, speed and expression. They will practice reading to each other and in front of the classroom. Math Phonics Science / S.S. / Speaking Handwriting Closing Meeting Students will read Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories “Mr. Muddle Tells About the Circus” – Why does Mr. Muddle become forgetful? What kinds of things did he forget at the circus? Math – Geometric shapes and fractions Warming Up – Miming rhyming words – Students will repeat the miming rhyming words game. Phonemic Awareness – Oral Blending and segmentation – blending words in context – Students will practice sounding out words and putting them together to make a whole. Alphabetic Principle – Students will blend words with an s sound to understand ‘plural’ words. Students will present their projects of how to protect our ocean creatures Writing Process Strategies – Checking and sharing – Students will share their persuasive posters in front of the classroom and will make any changes necessary as they observe their work out loud. Word Analysis – Classification - world – Students will group sea creatures into categories based on the type of homes they inhabit English Language Conventions – Penmanship – Students will practice writing their numbers and letters (upper and lower case) Review Reading – “The Ocean” – Students will vote on their favorite animal from our story and we will conduct more research on that animal, what it eats and how it lives. Journal Entry – Students will summarize what they have learned base don our research and will write about it. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - Page 95, The Ocean Reading Recommendation – Write down all unknown vocabulary while reading at home and bring to class! Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 11-15) nd Week – May 18 – 22 th Day – Monday, May 18 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will work on blending word wounds and segmentation Students will practice with sentence structure Students will continue to participate in experiments to gather information Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will work in their science journals Students will work on magazine advertisements Students review grammar, usage and mechanics Students will begin to work with double digit addition Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Activate Prior knowledge – discuss the author and illustrator of “There Once Was a Puffin” Vocabulary – puffin Reading – “There Once Was a Puffin” – Students will read and discuss the poem. Students will ask focus questions prior to reading the poem and after we read the poem. Reading / Language Arts Math Phonics Science / Social Studies Handwriting Comprehension Strategies – Visualization – Students will discuss visualization and friendship demonstrated in the poem. English Language Conventions – Grammar Review – Language Arts Skills pg. 88-89 . Students will review words that describe. Double Digit Addition Warm Up – “Who ate the cookies form the cookie jar?” – Using students first letters of their names and last names. Phonemic Awareness – Sentence Extension – Students will work on building simple sentences by asking who, what, where, when, why, how. Students will discuss how we can keep ocean clean in order to protect the sea life Writing Process Strategies – Magazine Advertisement – Students will continue will persuasive writing as they begin to formulate ideas to create a magazine advertisement. Students may look through magazines to view examples. Word Analysis – Classification – Sensory Words – Students will Students will list words that describe something that tastes good. Review Reading – “There Once Was a Puffin” Discuss how this text is a poem, not just a story. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will begin to write a rough draft of their magazine advertisements Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Reading Recommendation – Read stories at home and write down unknown vocabulary to bring to class Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 11-15) nd Week – May 18 – 22 th Day – Tuesday, May 19 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will work on blending word wounds and segmentation Students will practice with sentence structure Students will continue to participate in experiments to gather information Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will work in their science journals Students will work on magazine advertisements Students review grammar, usage and mechanics Students will begin to work with double digit addition Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “There Once Was a Puffin” – Students will use Table of Contents to find our poem and find the title, author and illustrator. Build background and activate prior knowledge Vocabulary – muffin Reading – “There Once Was a Puffin” – Read the poem and stop to identify and discuss descriptive words. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Students will use the descriptive words they identified to help visualize the scenery of they poem. English Language Conventions – Grammar Review – Students will practice coming up with their own descriptive words to describe the ocean and its animals. Math Double Digit Addition Warm Up – Same Sounds Word Game – Students will take turns in a circle coming up with words that start with the same sound. Phonics Science / Social Studies Phonemic Awareness – Sentence Extension – Students will continue working with sentence extensions by asking questions. Sound and Letters page 140-141 Students will discuss how we can keep ocean clean in order to protect the sea life Writing Process Strategies – Magazine Advertisement – Students will continue work on their persuasive arguments for the advertisements. They can look though magazines for help and draw a rough draft. Handwriting Word Analysis – Sensory words – Students will use sensory words to describe how they feel when they are lonely and have no playmates like the puffin from our story. Review Reading – “There Once Was a Puffin” Discuss how this text is a poem, not just a story. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will edit and revise their advertisement slogans Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Reading Recommendation – Read stories at home and write down unknown vocabulary to bring to class Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 11-15) nd Week – May 18 – 22 th Day – Wednesday, May 20 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will work on blending word wounds and segmentation Students will practice with sentence structure Students will continue to participate in experiments to gather information Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will work in their science journals Students will work on magazine advertisements Students review grammar, usage and mechanics Students will begin to work with double digit addition Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “There Once Was a Puffin” – Locate the title of the book, the author and illustrator. Discuss how the pictures represent the story. Introducing Fine Art – Students will view “Dolphin Family Fountain” pictures. We will discuss the artist and his background. Reading / Language Arts Discussing Fine Art – Students will be encouraged to discuss their feelings about the art pictured. They will be encouraged to ask questions as well. Ask students if they would like to swim with a dolphin and what they think it might be like. English Language Conventions – Grammar Review– Students will review their magazine advertisements for words that describe. Encourage students to write with more descriptive words. Math Double Digit Addition Warm Up – Consonant Riddle Game – Students will play a rhyming game with a partner where they try to find a rhyme for a word by changing on the first consonant. Phonics Science / Social Studies Phonemic Awareness – Sentence Extension – Students will continue to work on sentence extensions by asking questions in order to add more information and more description to a simple sentence. Students will discuss why we should respect others homes, animals or human Writing Process Strategies – Magazine Advertisements – Writers Workbook page. 49. Students will write words that describe the pictures they drew for their advertisements. Handwriting Word Analysis – Sensory Words – Students will review the fine artwork Dolphin picture. Students will use sensory words to describe what they sea, and how they think the ocean might feel. Review Reading – “There Once Was a Puffin” Discuss how this text is a poem, not just a story. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will write a short summary about the fine artwork “Dolphin Family Fountain.” Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Home Connections Reading Recommendation – Read stories at home and write down unknown vocabulary to bring to class Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 11-15) nd Week – May 18 – 22 st Day – Thursday, May 21 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will work on blending word wounds and segmentation Students will practice with sentence structure Students will continue to participate in experiments to gather information Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will work in their science journals Students will work on magazine advertisements Students review grammar, usage and mechanics Students will begin to work with double digit addition Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “There Once Was a Puffin” – Students will review new vocabulary words presented in the story. Introducing Fine Art – Students will view “Sea in the Evening Light” and “Crabs in the Ocean” pictures. We will discuss the artists and their backgrounds. Reading / Language Arts Discussing Fine Art – Students will be encouraged to discuss their feelings about the art pictured. They will be encouraged to ask questions as well. Students will share the pictures they have in their own minds when they think about the ocean. English Language Conventions – Listening, Speaking, and Viewing – Students will describe something using only hand motions. Math Double Digit Addition Warm Up – “What’s the Sound” game. Students will read the poem “Bluebird, Bluebird” from Big Book Pickled Peppers and practice changing the word blue to a new word and reading the poem with substituted words. Phonics Science / Social Studies Handwriting Closing Meeting Phonemic Awareness – Students will continue to work on sentence extensions. Sounds and Letters page. 142143 Students will discuss how we can keep ocean clean in order to protect the sea life Writing Process Strategies – Revising – Students will revise their magazine advertisements to make sure the words make sense and that they are using plenty of descriptive words. Word Analysis – Sensory Words - Students will review the Dolphin Family Fountain artwork and discuss how they dolphins seem to be in a playful mood. They will share things they do with they are in a playful mood as well. Review Reading – “There Once Was a Puffin” Discuss how this text is a poem, not just a story. Journal Entry – Students will practice writing sentences and identifying the descriptive and action words. Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - None Home Connections Reading Recommendation – Read stories at home and write down unknown vocabulary to bring to class Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 11-15) nd Week – May 18 – 22 nd Day – Friday, May 22 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will work on blending word wounds and segmentation Students will practice with sentence structure Students will continue to participate in experiments to gather information Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will work in their science journals Students will work on magazine advertisements Students review grammar, usage and mechanics Students will begin to work with double digit addition Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Review everything we have learned about puffins using descriptive words Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text – Students are going to observe a raw potato cut like a fish and discuss a new experiment where they are going to try to find out how water in the ocean is different than water in a lake or river. Reading / Language Arts Investigation Activity – Students will help conduct a fresh water vs. salt water experiment and observe to make conclusions. Reading – Decodable books – Students will read decodable book 19 “The Quilt” and practice with rate, speed and expression. They will practice reading to each other and in front of the classroom. Math Phonics Science / S.S. / Speaking Handwriting Students will read Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories “The Lion Roared like a Waterfall” – Why is Ms. Nosho so vague? Why do people misunderstand her when she is talking? Double Digit Addition Warming Up – Apples and Bananas – Students will sing the apples and bananas song and change out the vowel sounds. Practice singing it multiple times using different vowels. Phonemic Awareness – Sentence Extension – Students will work in pairs to create a simple sentence and ask each other questions to encourage longer more detailed sentences. Students will share their magazine advertisements with the class Writing Process Strategies – Checking and sharing – Students will share their Magazine Advertisements with a partner and they will check each other’s work for errors and offer advice. Word Analysis – Sensory Words – Moods – Students will discuss different moods they may be in and write them down in a list. English Language Conventions – Penmanship – Students will practice writing their numbers and letters (upper and lower case) Review Reading – “There Once Was a Puffin” Discuss how this text is a poem, not just a story. Closing Meeting Enrichment Classes Journal Entry – Students will write about something that makes them happy and something that makes them sad. Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - Page 99, There Once Was a Puffin Home Connections Reading Recommendation – Read stories at home and write down unknown vocabulary to bring to class Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 16-20) th Week – May 25 – 29 th Day – Monday, May 25 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students will practice writing and spelling using segmentation Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will complete their science journals Students practice identifying parts of speech in sentences Students will learn how to conduct research Students will begin to work with double digit subtraction Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Activate Prior knowledge – discuss the author and illustrator of “Hello Ocean” Vocabulary – Sight / sound / taste / smell / feel Reading – “Hello Ocean” – Students will read and discuss the story. Encourage students to ask questions if they do not understand a portion of the reading. Reading / Language Arts Math Phonics Science / Social Studies Comprehension Strategies – Making Connections – Students will listen to parts of the story and make connections to the text and to themselves. English Language Conventions – Review – Language Arts Skills page. 92-93 – Students will review capital letters and ending marks while making sentences Double digit subtraction Warm Up – Same sound and consonant riddle game – Students take turns identifying words that have the same sounds in small poems and create riddles by using the same word with different beginning consonants. Phonemic Awareness – Writing and Spelling – Students will practice sounding out letter sounds of new words and spelling them correctly based on the letter sounds. Students will conduct research about how people are effecting the oceans Writing Process Strategies – Classroom commercial – Students will start getting ideas together. They will recall what we have learned about the ocean and start collecting data that they may need to make a commercial Handwriting Word Analysis – Classification – Sight – Students will learn about the words hue and chameleon and play an I Spy game using the classification of colors. Review Reading – “Hello Ocean” Discuss the descriptive words and the pictures imagined based on the text. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will write what they can recall learning about the ocean Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Home Connections Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Reading Recommendation – While reading at home, stop after each sentence to check for comprehension Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 16-20) th Week – May 25 – 29 th Day – Tuesday, May 26 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students will practice writing and spelling using segmentation Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will complete their science journals Students practice identifying parts of speech in sentences Students will learn how to conduct research Students will begin to work with double digit subtraction Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “Hello Ocean” – Build background and activate prior knowledge Vocabulary – Bubbly / roar / shushing / clang / screak Reading – “Hello Ocean” – Read the story and stop after each sentences to test students for comprehension and attention to detail. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Visualizing – Discuss what the students see as we read the descriptive sentences in the story. Discuss their meaning. English Language Conventions – Review – Students will refer to Humphrey the Lost Whale and identify different sentences types in the story. They will discuss how they know what type each sentence is. Math Double digit subtraction Warm Up – Make a Rhyme game – Students will sit in a circle and practice coming up with a sentence that rhymes with the last student’s sentence. We will write the sentences down to make a class poem. Phonics Science / Social Studies Handwriting Phonemic Awareness – Sentence Extension – Students will practice extending sentences as they ask questions who, what, when, where, why. Sounds and Letters page 144-145 Students will conduct research about how people are effecting the oceans Writing Process Strategies – Class commercial – Writers Workbook page 50. Students review list of information from previous lesson and start crossing out ideas that can not be acted out for a commercial. Students will then select a topic and draw a picture of it in their writers workbook. Word Analysis – Classification – Sound. Practice writing lists of words that describe sounds we can hear at the ocean. Review Reading – “Hello Ocean” – Students will review the focus questions for the story and answer them together. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will write sentences and then use their extension lesson to write longer and more descriptive versions of their original sentences. Discussion – Students will summarize what they had learned throughout the day. Enrichment Classes Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Home Connections Reading Recommendation – While reading at home, stop after each sentence to check for comprehension Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 16-20) th Week – May 25 – 29 th Day – Wednesday, May 27 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students will practice writing and spelling using segmentation Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will complete their science journals Students practice identifying parts of speech in sentences Students will learn how to conduct research Students will begin to work with double digit subtraction Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “Hello Ocean” – Locate the title of the book, the author and illustrator. Discuss how the pictures represent the story. Vocabulary – refrain Reading – “Hello Ocean” – Review what we have learned and new vocabulary as we read. Encourage students to ask about any unknown words and discuss their meaning. Reading / Language Arts Comprehension Strategies – Making connections – Students will make connections to rhyming words on each page and listen for familiar feelings they have felt in personal situations. English Language Conventions – Review – Students will review their classroom commercial writing to make sure they have proper capitalization and ending marks. How can we make the commercial more exciting by using different sentence structures? Math Double digit subtraction Warm Up – What’s the Sound Game – Use poem “Sleeping Outdoors” Students will listen to words in the poem and describe what sounds of consonants they are hearing. Phonics Science / Social Studies Handwriting Phonemic Awareness – Writing and Spelling – Students continue on their previous lesson of listening to words segmented and attempting to spell them according to the sounds they hear. Students will review ocean creatures and which are endangered Writing Process Strategies – Classroom Commercial – Writers Workbook page 51 – Students will practice writing what they want to say in their classroom commercials. Word Analysis – Classification - Touch – Students will write lists of things that feel soggy, squishy or tickle. Review Reading – “Hello Ocean”- Students will take turns discussing details of the story as a group until we have recalled all the details we read about. Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will work on revising their classroom commercial sentences by using what they learned in their sentence extension assignments. Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - none Home Connections Reading Recommendation – While reading at home, stop after each sentence to check for comprehension Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 16-20) th Week – May 25 – 29 th Day – Thursday, May 28 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students will practice writing and spelling using segmentation Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will complete their science journals Students practice identifying parts of speech in sentences Students will learn how to conduct research Students will begin to work with double digit subtraction Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Browse book “Hello Ocean” – Students will review new vocabulary words presented in the story. Story Crafting – Expanding Story Knowledge: Students will read story line stories about oceans that will need their knowledge gained during the unit to help them understand what is happening on each line. Students will discuss possible adventures they could go on in a ocean setting. Each student will have the opportunity to share their adventure with the class. Students will attempt to combine their adventures into one story line. Reading / Language Arts KBLM pg. 43-44 – Students will use story line pictures and attempt to place them in the correct order and tell the story they have created. Group Work – Students will read their pictures to tell a story to their friends in the class. English Language Conventions – Listening, speaking, viewing – Students will practice using formal and informal language and learn when the appropriate time for each is. Math Double digit subtraction Warm Up – “Catching the Letter Train Game” Phonics Science / Social Studies Phonemic Awareness – Writing and Spelling – Students will continue to work on spelling by listening to segmented word sounds. Students will conduct research about how people are effecting the oceans Writing Process Strategies – Class Commercial – Students will work on finishing up their commercial information, writing and prepare for presentations. Handwriting Word Analysis – Classification – Smell – Students will classify what things fall under different categories of smell. Review Reading – “Hello Ocean”- Students will retell the events from the story in the correct order using ordering words (first, next last…) and try replacing descriptive words with synonyms or antonyms Closing Meeting Journal Entry – Students will review and complete their writing for their commericals Discussion – Purposes for reading – Discuss some purposes for reading and see if we accomplished any of these purposes during our reading. What did we learn? Can this help us every day? How does it make you feel? Enrichment Classes Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - None Home Connections Reading Recommendation – While reading at home, stop after each sentence to check for comprehension Private Kindergarten Lesson Plans th Teacher – Ms. Lindsay Theme – By the Sea (Lesson 16-20) th Week – May 25 – 29 th Day – Friday, May 29 , 2015 Weekly Objectives Students will practice with phoneme replacement and final consonants Students will practice with segmentations and counting of phonemes Students will practice writing and spelling using segmentation Students will use visualization and predictions for comprehension skills Students will complete their science journals Students practice identifying parts of speech in sentences Students will learn how to conduct research Students will begin to work with double digit subtraction Class Subject Skills Taught Days / Months / Weather / Seasons / Special Events / Lesson Preview Morning Meeting Preview / Prepare – Review everything we have learned about Patriotism and National Symbols Unit Celebration – Students will complete work on their science journals and will each pick their favorite experiment to review and discuss with the classroom. Evaluating the Unit – Students will discuss the books and stories we have read through the ocean unit. They will discuss their feelings about each story and the characters and what they have learned. Reading / Language Arts Reading – Decodable books – Students will read decodable book 20 ”Puff” and practice with rate, speed and expression. They will practice reading to each other and in front of the classroom. Math Phonics Science / S.S. / Speaking Handwriting Students will read Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories “Willy’s Lost Kitten” – Why do the things Willy wishes for not happen? How can he makes these things happen? Double digit subtraction Warming Up – Silly Sentences – Students will play the silly sentences game Phonemic Awareness – Writing and Spelling – students will continue to use their segmentation of words to sound out and attempt to spell vocabulary Students will perform their classroom commercials! Writing Process Strategies – Class Commercial – Students will practice performing their commercials and prepare any props they may need to perform in front of the classroom. Word Analysis – Classification - Taste – Students will list things they have had that taste hot, sour, sweet and nasty. English Language Conventions – Penmanship – Students will practice writing their numbers and letters (upper and lower case) Review Reading – “Hello Ocean” - Students will review what they have learned from our story this week. Closing Meeting Enrichment Classes Journal Entry – Students will summarize what they have learned about the ocean in this unit and write the short summary in their journals to share with their classmates. Music / Gross Motor / Science / Art / Dramatic Play / Computers / Spanish Home Connection - Page 101, Hello Ocean Home Connections Reading Recommendation – While reading at home, stop after each sentence to check for comprehension
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