Mrs. Albanese's Kindergarten Class

Weekly Plans - Week 34 (May 13-17)

Happy Mother's Day! I hope everyone has a lovely day celebrating all the special people in their life!

Last week we worked hard preparing our own Mother's Day books.

I just love these answers!

We also celebrated Catholic Education Week and our school put on an Art Show.

We worked with Artist Caroline to create these beautiful paintings on canvas with a clay heart on top as the theme was "LOVE".

Here's a look at our centres this week:

Can you create a bridge?

I love these rainbow spools from Quality Classrooms!

Can you form a letter using Wikki Stix?

Roll the coin die and stack the money.

We've been learning all about Canadian coins over the past few weeks!

Can you use the tweezers to pick out the insects from the dirt?

We are continuing with colour mixing at our Science and Discovery Centre.

What colours can you make?

We added the story The Napping House with felt props to our Felt Board.

Our Sensory Bin is filled with water and dandelions that the students collected to make "Dandelion Soup".

For our fine motor mini lesson this week we will have students use chopsticks to move the droplets of coloured water to the correct glass. These papers are in page protectors that have oil wiped across them so that the water slides easily.

At our Game Table, students can play "Dice War" or "Dice Challenge" as we call it.

Each student rolls their die and the person with the higher number gets a point.

Students can checkmark or tally their answers.

You can find this in my huge Number Sense in Kindergarten pack in my TpT store.

In religion, we will be learning about Mother Mary and doing a directed drawing of her.

You can find this in my May Religion pack in my TpT store.

We are moving on to our Telling Time unit in math for the next couple of weeks.

One of my lessons this week is called the "1 minute challenge" where we experience just how long one minute is!

We will be using these large posters to show what time we do things in school.

Students will be working in small groups building a clock.

This is a very old large clock I made out of a shower curtain.

I love how students can walk on it and move the hands to show the time.

One of my favourite nursery rhymes is Hickory Dickory Dock which we will be using to learn about "o'clock".

You can find everything above, as well as 2-weeks of complete lesson plans, in my Telling Time in Kindergarten pack in my TpT store.

Here are my weekly plans if you'd like to download!

If you would like the editable version to modify this for your own class click HERE.

The original blank PowerPoint file has been uploaded onto Google Slides but the formatting has changed.

Weekly Plans - Week 33 (May 6-10)

This upcoming week is a busy one!

It's Catholic Education Week across our board and our school is putting on an Art Show. I'll be sure to share pictures of that next week!

We are also going on a field trip to watch a fun production!

Last week we introduced our students to the FREE website www.sketch.metademolab.com where students can draw an image on a white piece of paper and then take a picture, upload it and watch it come to life through animation! They loved it!

Mother's Day is coming up next weekend and our students will be working on these adorable books to take home...click the link below if you'd like to download for FREE!

Here's a look at our centres this week:

Can you make a symmetrical butterfly?

Spin, read and draw the CVC word. The spinner is from Amazon - click HERE for the link.

Spring pattern blocks - these are a FREE download from pre-kinders.com

Can you stir up a storm? Pick a card and add that many to your bowl.

We've been talking all about different types of books to write and we added these paper for students to create their own "All About Letter..." books. I paired my Alphabet Readers here also because they follow the same format and students can get inspiration from them!

You can find the lesson for this, along with the reproducible books, in my "I Can Write! Pack 2" in my TpT store.

We are wrapping up our Dinosaur Inquiry this week - students will be presenting their research and adding their dinosaur paintings to our large mural in the hallway.

At our Science and Discovery Centre we set up an invitation for students to explore colours!

When you place your hand on those boards, they change colour!

In our fine motor small group we will have students use tweezers to pick up popcorn kernels and add them to the spots inside these rubber bath mats.

At our light table, students can use these loose parts to follow different lines.

We used this same invitation way back at the beginning of the school year, too!

You can download these templates for FREE HERE.

We opened up a Pizzeria at our Dramatic Play Centre!

Find everything you need by clicking below!

The subtraction mats our students used last week are now placed at the Math Centre if they would like to continue to work on that.

In religion, our virtue this month is responsibility.

We will be reading the story But It's Not My Fault and playing a fun game about being honest.

You can follow along with all of our religion lessons and games in my Religion - May pack in my TpT store.

In math we are continuing with our unit on Canadian Coins.

This week we will be working with our small groups on using coins to purchase things by playing grocery store.

We will also play this fun game...Money Drop!

A bunch of coins are scattered on the table/floor. I will call out a coin name or an amount and the students have to pick it up. It can get more challenging for those students that need it - sometimes the amounts are not necessarily the same as the coin value (I may say 20 cents or 60 cents!).