Thursday, March 7, 2013
Dr. Seuss (K.RFS.2a)
In celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday we have been doing a special activity at the end of each day. If students are good all day and keep their stamp they can participate in the 10-15 minute activity. I read a Dr. Seuss book earlier in the day and then we do the related activity at the end of the day. Here are a few activities.
I read The Cat in the Hat and then we came up with a list of rhyming words and made our own hats.
We read One Fish, Two, Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and then graphed goldfish crackers. Here is the worksheet we used to graph on. It's a freebie on Teacher's Pay Teacher's, click on the link at the bottom of the picture.
I read The Cat in the Hat and then we came up with a list of rhyming words and made our own hats.
We read Green Egg's and Ham and partnered up to play Tic-Tac-Toe. One person was the green eggs and the other was the ham. Click on the link for the printable. This website has lots of cute Dr. Seuss games and activities.
I would love to hear other ideas for Dr. Seuss activities!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Poems (K.RFS.3b, K.RFS.3c, K.RL.5)
Reading: Foundational Skills 3 b c
Each week my students get a new poem to add to their poetry notebook. We sing the poem/song throughout the week as they are transitioning to the carpet. We circle all the sight words in the poem and highlight any chunks or vowel patterns that we find. They each have a folder with prongs in the middle, I put 5 page protector sleeves in each folder at the beginning of the year. Every Friday the kids insert their poem into their sheet protector and it is stored in their book box. They love reading/singing old poems during partner reading and even during read to self time. After the kids get ten poems in their folder I have them take them out and I make them into a book by stapling them inside a large piece of construction paper folded in half. Then they have some poems they can take home and continue to practice reading and some at school to enjoy. Here is an example of one of our poems. I try to pick songs or poems that go with topics/things we are celebrating in class or songs they sing in Music class.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Sight Words (K.RFS.3c)
My kindergarten students know on average close to 100 sight words. My district uses the Teacher College lists of sight words. I cut a list of words in half and staple them into a book. Everytime a student learns and gets all 25 words highlighted in their book they move up to the next colored book. We have a student in class that is on the black book (the last book of sight words) they think that is so cool. This is very motivational for my kids and they can see their growth. They love when they move on to the next colored book. I also send a note home so parents are aware of the new words their child is currently working on.
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I put this hangman game into a sleeve and the kids flip to a page in their sight word book and play hangman sightword to review words too. The creater of this sight word sheet is listed at the bottom of the picture.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Vowel Patterns (K.RFS.3b)
I can not say enough about introducing Kindergarteners to vowel patterns. Every book out there has words in it that contain vowel patterns. We do this video every day in my classroom to learn the sounds each pattern makes. I have seen a huge difference in my kids reading abilities just from using this short video. I had my daughters do the motions, this helps kids learn them quicker :)
We also work on spelling vowel patterns by using this chart. I put the paper in a plastic sleeve to save paper. We practice spelling words on it once a week. If we come to one that has two different patterns I will tell them to circle the pattern that we are going to use to spell that word.
We also work on spelling vowel patterns by using this chart. I put the paper in a plastic sleeve to save paper. We practice spelling words on it once a week. If we come to one that has two different patterns I will tell them to circle the pattern that we are going to use to spell that word.
None of my kids came in reading. I have 2 on level G, 4 F's, 1 E, 7 D's, 4 C's and 2 B's
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Bossy R Jeopardy
My kids had so much fun coming up with the clues for bossy r words. I gave them each a half sheet of paper that had a bossy r word written on the top. They had to come up with a clue for the word. Then I typed them up into a jeopardy game. We practice bossy r words a lot, they can make it very tricky to sound out a word if you don't know the sound they make.
Each student has a dry erase board, we play boys vs girls. When it is your turn you get to pick the category and points amount. Every child writes the answer on their board every time. I have them all sit on the floor close to me so I can watch their spelling of each word. They love jeopardy and think it is so cool that they made the clues. The game is just $1.00 on teacherspayteachers.com
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bossy-R-Jeopardy
Each student has a dry erase board, we play boys vs girls. When it is your turn you get to pick the category and points amount. Every child writes the answer on their board every time. I have them all sit on the floor close to me so I can watch their spelling of each word. They love jeopardy and think it is so cool that they made the clues. The game is just $1.00 on teacherspayteachers.com
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bossy-R-Jeopardy
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Using pointers to track print (K.RFS.1a)
Common Core Reading: Foundation Skills
K.RFS.1
K.RFS.1
I like to provide my students with pointers to use when reading the books in their book boxes. This provides them a fun way to practice tracking print from top/bottom, left/right. I have them just use a plain stick for the first month of school. I tell them if they are responsible and take care of their stick they will get "cooler" pointers as the year goes on.
August/September: popsicle stick with a smile drawn on
October: witchy fingers Oriental Trading
November: feathers
December/January: snowmen (cut the fingers off of white gloves, add a little cotton stuffing, a pipe cleaner scarf, and decorate with a sharpie.
February: Southwest Airlines stir sticks
March: Shamrock sticker, some years I make gold glitter sticks
April/May: foam flower
Friday, January 25, 2013
Happy 100th Day
We had so much fun on our 100th day of school today. For our question of the day I asked the kids if anyone knew someone that was 100 years old. I showed them a picture of what someone looked like that was 100. Then we had our first challenge, could we come up with 100 words that we can read/write. We have been working on short vowel word families for quite some time. They were each given a sheet and had to make a real word for each chunk or word family.
After everyone completed their sheet I had the kids call out words they made for each chunk. I wrote all the words on the board and they were excited to learn that we came up with 110 words!
Then we switched classrooms for different 100 day themed activities. In my classroom we seen how many numbers they could write in 100 seconds, how many letters they could write, and how many times they could write their name in one hundred seconds. Each classroom competed and then I crowned one winner of each category for all of kindergarten. After that we partnered up and played the roll to100 game.
In one of the other rooms the kids made glasses in the shape of 100 and painted 100 spots on a dalmatian Each student had to bring in a 100 of something arranged in a creative way. We put them all on display and went around to the other classrooms to see their masterpieces. Here are a few of my favorites.
To round out the day we made hats that read I am 100 days smarter. We had ten strips hanging off of our hats and made a picture of ten items on each strip.
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