Kindergarten Kiosk: October 2011

Bear Thematic Unit For Kindergarten

Looking for a great way to fill the days between Halloween and Thanksgiving?

This 90 page Bear unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, social studies, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons (games or activities) included are scripted. They are written in a format that can be easily taught by the teacher or readily handed off to a parent volunteer or a classroom aide with complete confidence that objectives of the lesson will be reached.

Literacy Activities:

Woodland Friends At the Park: Identifying Beginning and Ending Sounds

Corduroy’s Alphabet Game: Identification of Upper & Lowercase letters

ABC Honey Hunt: Identifying Alphabet Letters & Naming Letter Sounds

Bear Match: Matching Letters of the Alphabet

Bear Twins: Compound Word Deletion

Math Activities:

Teddy Bear Picnic: Spatial Intelligence and Estimation Strategies

Bears & Buttons: Counting With a One-to-one Correspondence

Pattern Bears: Extending Patterns

Race Car Riot: Ordering Numbers 1-12

Counting Hives: Number Sense Worksheet

Art Projects

The Three Bears

Poky Bear

Corduroy Portfolio Sample

How To Draw A Bear

Social Studies

Families: Portfolio Page

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

What I Know About Bears

The Three Bears

Bears Word Wall Words

Science

Hibernating Bears: Bear Facts

Songs

Three Brown Bears

Poky Bear

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Corduroy

Guided Reading Books

Where Is My Bear?

Teaching Kids To Read -&- Avoiding the 3rd Grade Slump

Imagine building a house and beginning with the roof! You don’t need construction experience or a degree in architecture to know that this will not lead to a successful end. Just as the building of a house needs to follow a certain order, skills for reading also follow a sequence. In fact, research has shown that most students learn to read following the same sequence of skill acquisition. What does this mean as we teach beginning readers?

Parents, students, and even teachers are often so anxious to start the reading process that beginning readers are frequently presented with words before they are ready for them. According to reading research, however, students should first work with letters. In fact, students should concentrate on capital letters; once they know the uppercase letters, the lowercase letters are easier to learn. Only after mastering both upper- and lowercase letters should high frequency or sight words be addressed.

Although it’s often tempting to jump into phonics in order to please parents and administrators, research has shown that students with strong phonemic awareness skills tend to be better readers than those who do not participate in as many of these auditory activities. Before connecting letters and sounds, students should clap out syllables, play with rhymes, and isolate initial sounds in words. As students continue on the reading continuum, they can work with letter sounds and then decoding.

These are just a few examples related to the sequencing of reading skills; there are entire books devoted to this subject! Just keep in mind that as you make your weekly and daily plans, you must always consider the sequence of skills. A simple solution to ensuring that the correct reading sequence is followed is to use the materials in our many thematic units. Starting with the Alphabet Fair at the beginning of the school year and continuing with successive units, skills are addressed in the sequence recommended by research. The Kindergarten Kiosk units can supplement any reading program, providing timely activities for practice and intervention.

Also check out our monthly homework packets. They to are ordered sequentially according to reading research. Continue to visit our blog and check out our materials to help meet your needs!

&Kathleen

Pumpkins at Kindergarten

A great pumpkin day!

A Pumpkin Assembly

"Grove City Gardens" brings the farm to town.

Thanks for the Pumpkins!

Conducting a Pumpkin Report

Playing Pumpkin Smasher

Writing about Pumpkins at the Writing Center

Do you know the "Pumpkin Man" that lives down Pumpkin Lane?

Halloween Center Activities, Homework, Guided Reading & More 10% Off

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Fall Themed Days In Kindergarten

We are in the middle of our Fall themed Learning. As you will note in the pictures, our hallway is in the development stage of construction; we add to it daily.