Lesson Plans for Next Week-Dr. Seuss is in the HOUSE!

I love Dr. Seuss Week!  So fun!

All I can say is, "Thank you Deanna Jump."  She has made the cutest, and yet, rigorous unit for this week.   Love it! I'm sure everyone has it already, but if you don't... you really should check it out.  I am planning my reader's workshop around it this week.

In my small group I will be using another of my TpT favorites, Kim Adsit.

This is an awesome packet filled with graphic organizers.  Beyond adorable!  I think it has it all.   Here is my plan... I am going to copy these on card stock and laminate them.  Then I will have my kiddos use an Expo marker during our small group.  I think I will feel better about a few of the trees that will be saved and my kids will love using the markers on these.

Our school had a motivational speaker a few weeks back and he shared this affirmation with us.  This will be my shared reading next week.  In the world of kindergarten, the line that states, "I can think for myself.  I can say no when I want to."  is usually pretty benign.  Right now, a student might tell me they jumped off the top of the equipment because their friend told them to.   But what if this affirmation stuck with them?  What if they receive peer pressure later in life and they could say no when they wanted to?  

Sorry this seems to have a white background in Google Docs... I'm not sure how to fix it.

In my small group math we will be playing Deanna's Fish Out of Water Game.

and my Stacks Game 11-20.

I tried it out with some of my groups last week.  They did a wonderful job.  All of my groups were able to work with-in the 11-20 set.  I had two partners team up so 4 students were playing with one set of cards.  I loved the conversations they were having, "Oh, we just need 13, then we can play 14, 15, and 16."  and "we just need 3 more to finish this stack."  You can see some students are really strategic (perhaps they have more games experience).  I am going to keep this activity in small group until I feel they can be independent with it.   

For writer's workshop, I am going to keep the same focus.  We just need a little more time with this idea.  It did not quite sink in last week. I hope to post some images of students who attempted this in their writing this week.

 Here are my lesson plans for next week.  Click on the images to download the document with source links.

I finally finished my Daily Math Journals for March

That's all folks!

Peek at my Week-Dr. Seuss-ish! And a FREEBIE!

I am so excited for this week.  This is such a fun theme for the little guys!

Here are a few things I have added and resources I will be using this week.  Wanna win them?

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Here are my station plans for next week.  Click on any image to download the item with links.

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Writing Work Station for March... and a new math game!

After a visit with the dentist, I was able to finish a few things. Yippee!

 Here is a game I thought up.  It is a bit like solitaire.  In this game the students will sequentially stack their number cards.  The first one to complete 3 stacks will be the winner.

I am introducing this as a 1-10 stack and 11-20 stack, but I am thinking about making a skip counting (2, 5, 10) version?   Thoughts?

I played a version of this with a few students (just the numbers without the cute graphics).  They loved it! I hope they love the St. Patrick's Day graphics.

Writers Workshop-How about science fiction

Here's the deal... Writer's Workshop is still hard for me. I think I am over thinking it.  I feel like I have relinquished all control and sometimes wonder if it was easier when I did not give the open reins to my kiddos.   My students are passionate about writing.  They chatter about it constantly. They want to tell me everything they have planned for writing that day, but it is impossible to listen to them all and still get to my conferring kids.  Should I go back to the way I taught writing before?  It seem to work REALLY well...

Then I get a glimpse of this and it all seems worth it!

(If you click on the images you will get a better view)

 Here is what I could say about this writer... HE HAS WRITING STAMINA!   Holy Smokes!  He was able to sustain his focus on this piece for many days (I think it took him 2 weeks). He understands the genre and can write in this genre.  He KNOWS exactly what he wants to say.  As I was trying to make sense of some of his words, he would correct me,  "No, it is sky base."... I still have no idea what that is...LOL!

He writes with voice.  He can build suspense.  He understands that stories have a beginning, middle, and end.

I suspect I got in the way of his ending.  I mentioned to him that I would like to post his writing on my blog with his permission (and the next day he was done). I think his next steps would be talking about how stories end and what makes a good ending.  In any event... Way to go my little friend!

What am I working on?

 

I promise to have these ready by this weekend!

Lesson Plans for Next Week-American Symbols and a FREEBIE

We have some winners! (I will be emailing you in a few minutes)

And everyone is a winner with my Sentence Builders for March FREEBIE for a limited time.   Here is the condition of this FREEBIE.  Will you please let me know your thoughts on it?   Is this something you would like for April?  It will remain free until the 1st of March.

Here are my lesson plans.  We had two snow days last week, so you may see a repeat of plans. 

You can grab these lessons with links by clicking on any image.