Week 1

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

9:10-9:45

Welcome Activities

Set out pattern blocks, unifix cubes, puzzles, legos on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out pattern blocks, unifix cubes, puzzles, legos on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out pattern blocks, unifix cubes, puzzles, legos on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out pattern blocks, unifix cubes, puzzles, legos on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

 

9:45-10:15

Morning Meeting

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: What are you Wearing?

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Telephone

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Head, shoulders, knees and toes

 

10:15-10:25

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

 

10:25-11:25

Reading Workshop

Read Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (big book)

Have children make self portraits for class book

Practice bathrooms, washing hands, lining up, discuss playground safety

Playdoh, unifix cubes,

Puzzles

.

 

Read Tom Goes to Kindergarten

Reread Miss Bindergarten and talk about whose names begin with those letters

How we go to school graph

Special Friend-draw friend, write name

 

Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Draw and label special friend

Make I Like August book (whole group)

 

Read Chrysanthemum

School Tour

Draw and label special friend (special friend activities include cheering name, spelling with magnetic letters, how many letters? How many claps? First letter sounds, etc)

Staff Development

(no school for students)

11:30-12:30

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

 

12:30-1:45

Math Workshop

Read The Kissing Hand Calendar Math

 

1.        Handprint puzzle

2.        Handprint book: This is ____’s hand.

3.        Playdoh

4.        Coloring

5.        First Day of School picture

Choose special friend for tomorrow

Read Ten Black Dots Calendar Math

 

1.        Use white boards to practice numbers 1-5

2.        Playdoh

3.        shaving cream

4.        Kissing Hand game (die with 1, 2, 3 on it, kids move up handprint stickers)

 

Read Quack and Count Calendar Math

 

make own name and friends’ names: 1. magnetic letters

2. rainbow writing

3. playdoh

4. stamping

Read Five Little Monkeys

Calendar Math

 

 

Technology

 

1:45-2:30 Specials: Art, PE, Music, media

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 -3:30

Snack/Centers

Optional Recess Time

Art: Watercolor paints

Art: Watercolor paints

Art: Make palm trees and stamp letters up the trunk, use bingo stampers to make border

 

Art: Make palm trees and stamp letters up the trunk, use bingo stampers to make border

 

 

Text Box: Week 2

 

9:10-9:45

Welcome Activities

Labor Day

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

9:45-10:15

Morning Meeting

 

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: What are you wearing

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Put your hand up in the air

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Five Little Monkeys

10:15-10:25

 

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

10:25-11:25

Reading Workshop

Labor Day

Reread Chicka Chicka

 

Special Friend Activities

 

Begin Daily Five: Make class chart of ways to read a book: read words, retell familiar story, make up story by looking at pictures

 

Read Kindergarten ABC

Sing A Alligators All Around and learn sign language letters

 

Special Friend Activity

 

Daily Five: practice reading with pictures

Read Chicka Chicka Zoom

Special Friend Activity

 

Daily Five: Practice reading with pictures or retelling a familiar story

 

Read On the First Day of Grade School

 

Special Friend activity

 

Daily Five: begin Read to Self (1-3 minutes)

11:30-12:30

 

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

12:30-1:45

Math Workshop

 

Calendar Math

Read Five Little Monsters

Puppets to retell, create class rules

 

Centers:

1.        Number book with stamps

2.        Letter bingo with pennies

3.        Ladybug numbers

4.        Palm tree roll and cover game

 

Read Benny’s Pennies

Calendar Math

 

Name centers:

1.        Wet paper with markers.

2.         Playdoh,

3.        bingo dotters

4.        Magnetic letters

 

Read The Doorbell Rang

Calendar Math

 

 

Technology

Read Chicka Chicka 1,2,3

Calendar Math

 

1.        Make books with coconut trees, fingerprints for coconuts, #1-10

2.        Names on white boards

3.        Chicka hats (sentence strips with names and polka dots

4.        Watercolor names

 

 

 

1:45-2:30

Specials

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 -3:30

Snack/Centers

Optional Recess Time

 

Art: Make a monster

Art: Make a monster

Art: Q tip painting

Art: Q tip painting

Text Box: Week 3

 

9:10-9:45

Welcome Activities

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level rigby books

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level books

 

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level books

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level books

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

9:45-10:15

Morning Meeting

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Telephone

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: What are you wearing

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Put your hand up in the air

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Five Little Monkeys

10:15-10:25

 

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

10:25-11:25

Reading Workshop

Read Countdown to Kindergarten

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 3 mins

 

Special Friend

 

Shared Reading:

National Geographic for Kids

 

Read Timothy Goes to School

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 3-4 mins

 

Introduce Handwriting w/o Tears wooden pieces to make letters

 

Read Today is Monday

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 3-5 mins

 

 

 

Read Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: practice Read to self 3-6 mins.

 

 

 

 

Read Miss Bindergarten has a Wild Day in Kindergarten

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Practice read to self 4-6 mins, 2 books

 

11:30-12:30

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

12:30-1:45

Math Workshop

Read Fish Eyes

Calendar Math

 

 

 

Abab patterns-practice whole group, use body patterns

 

Pattern centers:

1.        Headband with bingo dotters

2.        Unifix cubes

3.        Bears

4.        Playdoh

 

Read The Greedy Triangle

Calendar Math

Whole group:Dominos (venn same/more/less)

 

Centers:

1 Dominos (venn same/more/less)

2 .Unifix puzzles

3.Ladybug numbers

4.Number bingo

 

Read Chrysanthemum

Calendar Math

 

Sort class names by number of letters

 

Pattern centers (if time)

Read Mouse Count

Calendar Math

 

 

Technology

Read One Moose, Twenty Mice

Calendar Math

 

Use white boards whole group to start problem solving

 

 

1:45-2:30

Specials

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 -3:30

Snack/Centers

Optional Recess Time

Art: Watercolor paints

Art: watercolor painting

Art: School bus

Art: School bus

Art: markers

 

Week 4

9:10-9:45

Welcome Activities

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level rigby books

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level books

 

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level books

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level books

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

9:45-10:15

Morning Meeting

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: What are you wearing

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Put your hand up in the air

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Five Little Monkeys

10:15-10:25

 

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

10:25-11:25

Reading Workshop

Read Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 5-6mins

 

Special Friend

 

Shared Reading:

National Geographic for Kids

 

Read Wemberly Worried

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 5-6 mins

 

 Handwriting w/o Tears wooden pieces to make letters

 

Reread Today is Monday (with song)

Read Will You Be My Friend?

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 5 -7 mins

Write the room

 

 

Read A Good Day

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: practice Read to self 6-9 mins.

 

 

 

Draw Family and label

Read Click, Clack, Splish, Splash

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Practice read to self 6-9 mins, 2 books

 

11:30-12:30

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

12:30-1:45

Math Workshop

Read 1,2,3 to the Zoo

Calendar Math

 

 

Abb and aab patterns-practice whole group, use body patterns

 

Pattern centers:

1.        Headband with bingo dotters

2.        Unifix cubes

3.        Bears

4.        Playdoh

 

Read Six Little Ducks

Calendar Math

 

 

Centers:

1 Dominos

2 .Number graph with dice

3.Playdoh numbers

4.Number bingo

 

Read Inch by Inch

Calendar Math

 

Whole group-measurement

 

Centers:

1 Color graph

2 .measuring with inchworms

3.Playdoh numbers

4. Read/stamp/write

Me, he, be, we, see

 

Read When a Line Bends, A Shape Begins

Calendar Math

 

 

Technology

Read The Three Bears

Calendar Math

 

Use white boards whole group to explore

problem solving

 

 

1:45-2:30

Specials

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 -3:30

Snack/Centers

Optional Recess Time

Art: Red, White, or Blue Handprints

Art: Red, White, Blue handprints

Art: Make class book: We Are Friends

 

Art: Make class book: We Are Friends

Art: Scribble art

 

Week 5

9:10-9:45

Welcome Activities

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level rigby books. Meet with one group a day.

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level rigby books. Meet with one group a day.

 

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level rigby books. Meet with one group a day.

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Set out a/b level rigby books. Meet with one group a day.

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

9:45-10:15

Morning Meeting

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: What are you wearing

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Put your hand up in the air

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Five Little Monkeys

10:15-10:25

 

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

10:25-11:25

Reading Workshop

Read Brown Bear, Brown Bear

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 10-11 mins

 

Special Friend

 

Shared Reading:

National Geographic for Kids

 

Read Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type

Reread Brown Bear

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 10-12 mins

 

 Interactive chart: I see

 (color) (animal). 5-6 kids

 

Read Mrs. Wishy Washy

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 10-13 mins

 

Write the room

 

 

Interactive chart: I see

 (color) (animal). 5-6 kids

 

Read Cookie’s Week

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: practice Read to self 12-14 mins.

 

 

 

 

Interactive chart: I see

 (color) (animal). 5-6 kids

 

Read Baby Bear, Baby Bear

 

Special Friend

 

Daily Five: Practice read to self 12-15 mins, 3-4  books

 

Interactive chart (finish class, show kids how to be the sentence (cut apart words) let each child have own sentence strip to reassemble and illustrate for class book

 

11:30-12:30

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

12:30-1:45

Math Workshop

Read Ten Flashing Fireflies

Calendar Math

 

 

 

Pattern centers:

1.        I see colors book

2.        Red/green graph

3.        Read/stamp/write   you is go yes no

4.         Number bingo

 

Read Over In the Meadow

Calendar Math

 

 

Centers:

1 Felt board retelling

2 .graph brown bear animals

3.Playdoh numbers

4. Wiggle worm game with spinners

.

 

Read Inch by Inch

Calendar Math

 

Whole group-Introduce math tubs

 

 

Read Hippos Go Berserk

Calendar Math

 

 

Technology

Read Three Little Pigs

Calendar Math

 

Use white boards whole group to explore

problem solving

 

 

1:45-2:30

Specials

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 -3:30

Snack/Centers

Optional Recess Time

Art: Brown bear puppets

Art: Brown bear puppets

Art: Make class book: self portraits for Mrs. Rieben, Mrs. Rieben, who do you see?

 

Art: Make class book: self portraits

Art: Fingerpainting

 

Week 6

9:10-9:45

Welcome Activities

Set out counting bears, rainbow builders, puzzles, magnetic letters with Chicka cookie sheet, on tables.  Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Kidwriting Journals

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Kidwriting Journals

 

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Kidwriting Journals

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

Kidwriting Journals

Students enter, answer question of the day, put away backpack, select a table to work at. Announcements, pledge.

9:45-10:15

Morning Meeting

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Way Up High

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Dinosaur

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: What are you wearing

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Put your hand up in the air

Morning meeting: Oh What a Beautiful Morning Song, Morning Message/buzz book, Movement song: Five Little Monkeys

10:15-10:25

 

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

10:25-11:25

Reading Workshop

Read Apples, Apples, Apples

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 15-17 mins

 

Kidwriting- model, practice, share

 

Shared Reading:

National Geographic for Kids

 

Read The Apple Pie Tree

 

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 15-17 mins

 

 

Read The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree

 

 

Daily Five: Read to Self 15-17 mins

Introduce Listening, Make I chart (one group witll practice a day

ABC center: rainbow writing names

 Begin meeting with small groups during Daily Five

 

 

Read The Very Busy Spider

 

 

Daily Five: practice Read to self 15-17 mins.

Listening

ABC center: rainbow writing names

 

 

Small Groups

 

 

 

Read Stellaluna

 

 

Daily Five: Practice read to self 15-17 mins, 5  books

Listening

ABC center: rainbow writing names

 

 

Small Groups

 

Stellaluna class book

 

11:30-12:30

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

Recess/Lunch

12:30-1:45

Math Workshop

Read Ten Apples Up On Top

Calendar Math

 

 

 

Begin Math Tubs

Read Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea

Calendar Math

Counting by Twos song (Jack Hartman)

 

 

Math Tubs.

 

Read Ten Little Rubber Ducks

Calendar Math

 

Whole group-Introduce math tubs

 

Math Tubs

Read The Enormous Crocodile

Calendar Math

 

 

Technology

Read Three Little Wolves and One Pig

Calendar Math

 

Use white boards whole group to explore

problem solving

 

 

1:45-2:30

Specials

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 -3:30

Snack/Centers

Optional Recess Time

Art: Apple Prints

Art: Apple Prints

Art: Apple Mosaic

 

Art: Apple Mosaic

Art: Watercolors