Peek at My Week!

Happy Monday and MLK Day! 

My teaching bestie, Beginnings With Baer and I decided to do a fun 'peek at my week' blog post on Mondays to share the main agenda on our teaching plans for the week!! I love seeing what other teachers do throughout their work week, so why not share what will be happening with my little rays?! Each week brings new ideas, lessons, and chances to bring some excitement into our classrooms! I am excited to get to share a little overview of my week!

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS:
In ELA, we will be working on long e! My kiddos have been LOVING anchor charts this year. We have tried to make as many as we can for any topic. Not only is it an amazing resource for them to look at when they are working at stations or independently, but talking about them as a whole group really excites them, challenges them to think about the topic at hand and provide answers, and gives them pride in seeing it hung up!! We will be using our Long E anchor chart to come up with words that have the Long E pattern! We learned all about long A last week and I can't tell you HOW many of my kiddos quickly caught onto it. I had so many reading throughout the day that would stop and frantically raise their hand, "MISS K!! I FOUND A LONG A!!!!!!" My kiddos crack me up <3 We will also be continuing to work on digraphs (of course we have an anchor for that as well!) and word families! The word families have helped their rhyming improve A LOT! I find that they have also given us a lot of confidence in our reading. My little rays have been able to decode words better and now are always eager to get a book in their hand!

MATH:
We will be continuing with subtraction this week! We have already introduced subtraction from numbers 1-8 so this week will introduce the numbers 9 and 10. We will be doing a lot of story problems and hands on learning for this concept! We like to use linking cubes, counters, and other manipulatives as we practice our story problems and number sentences! When I start each lesson, we review with some prompting questions:

1- What is subtraction?

2- How is subtraction different from addition?

3- What are some strategies we can use to find our subtraction answers?

4- Who can give me a subtraction story problem?

Subtraction bowling is a HUGE hit when we start talking about subtraction from 10! I plan to have a lot of partner work with enlarged number bonds, number lines, dice, and white boards, and giving my little rays the chance to work together and 'coach' each other through story problems and number sentences.

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE:
Since we only have one block for Social Studies and Science, we switch off depending on the topic. This week, I will be using Tuesday and Wednesday to finish up MLK and Thursday and Friday for penguins! We talked about Martin Luther King Jr. last week and discussed what he did for our country. We watched a short clip from Kid President, but this week I plan to dig a little deeper! We will be using graphic organizers to help us track all the information we will be learning about! To finish up our unit, we will record OUR dreams next to MLK's! In science, we will discuss PENGUINS! I love me some cute little penguins. We will use Scholastic's "Let's Find Out!" resources to learn about where penguins live, their lifecycle, and more! We will also read "Tacky the Penguin", make a character map to describe Tacky, and make a Tacky the Penguin Craftivity! I got some of my ideas from A Spoonful of Learning and the Tacky the Penguin Craftivity from Live, Love, Laugh, Kindergarten.

WRITING:
I love pushing my little babes to write, write, write! The more we write, the more confident and excited my kiddos get to produce their own writing. In room 103, we are ALL authors ;) This week we will be working on personal narratives. How perfect does this tie into MLK????? After reading about what he did for justice, my little rays will write about a time when we felt that we were treated unfair and how we felt. We will be learning about his dreams and then making a craft with OUR dreams. In science, we will review what we have learned about penguins and write about what we would do if we were penguins :) By now, we are prepping ourselves for FIRST GRADE (wait, time slow down!! I don't want my rays to leave me!!) so we practice our first grade writing, which really gets my kiddos to take their time and do their best!

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