Here's a little look at our second week of Patriotism! This week our main focus was on learning about the specific symbols, qualities and government of the United States.
(sorry for the glare!)
These words (along with some picture cards to match) were placed in our word wall throughout the week so that the kiddos could use them in their writing and review them before our lessons. You can find them in my freebies!
We learned about three very important presidents and got to take home an "all about" book thanks to thekindergartensmorgasboard.com
We did some cut and paste activities during activity time to help us remember some important sight words, the words to the "promise to our country," The Pledge of Allegiance, and how to spell our wonderful state!
We also made our very own version of our country's great Bald Eagle!
On Wednesday, we learned about the Statue of Liberty and talked about its meaning and importance to all citizens, but especially immigrants. This hit home for many of my bees because so many of them immigrated recently. We learned a "super crazy" fact- that Lady Liberty was given as a gift and is actually made of copper, but she's "dirty" now! To show the kiddos how this happened, we turned a very shiny penny green over a few days. Such a great opportunity to talk about the scientific process and about observing and only drawing or recording what we can see.
Day 1- soaking our shiny penny in vinegar
Final recording sheet!
We've been working on coins and their value and playing Flip the Coin helped to combine our knowledge of presidents, their importance, graphing, and coin identification!
Here's a peek at our math centers for the week!
We always have a number writing center, we are working SO HARD to correctly identify and write the numbers 0-20!
Here's our number ID center. We LOVE Pete the cat and so think that this roll and read fluency center is so fun! Plus its focused on teen numbers which are the trickiest for us! Found at Kinderglynn
Here's a cut and paste domino addition center. The kiddos practiced their addition AND fine motor skills and my highest learners were recording all of their dominos as addition sentences as well.
Subtraction is super tricky for the kids. Where many of them are able to add using their fingers or making or using manipulatives, subtraction seems impossible without visuals. The extra step of putting all the manipulatives on the table and then taking some away seems to prove really difficult. However, this week we used these simple picture based subtraction booklets and the kids placed an X over the items taken away. This helped SO MUCH!
A few of my high acheivers needed an extra push towards number comparison. These kiddos worked on putting non sequential numbers in order using groups between 1 and 100.
Literacy Centers
Middle sounds are difficult for my middle students to grasp and master. This past week, we used these to help us identify the middle sound. If you can see (the tiny ones on the table in the back) the vowel- or the middle sound- in each of these words is written on the sticks in red. This way, the students can identify the beginning, ending, middle, or all three sounds. Easily differentiable!
Here's a sound switching game (from Kidsparkz) each of my middle kiddos enjoyed. They got to play soccer and "kick" the ball into a word ending's goal. They then read and recorded the new word.
On Skill and Drill Friday, we spent some time learning about blends. The kids found these jelly bean jars (from Maddie M's TPT Site here) really helpful at putting an object and a word they knew with some tricky to hear and identify blends.
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