Kindergarten Lesson Plans-Adkins
Week of October 13, 2015
Circle Time: Calendar Math (October pattern—AAAB, weekdays/weekends, counting, place
value , math fluency practice, oral language development, large motor skills with
song/dance, letter of the day, phonemic awareness lesson
Read Aloud: Community Helpers
Language Arts
Tuesday 10/13
Large Group: Review letters A, T, S, sounds using Project Read. Complete a bubble map on
community helpers.
Literacy Centers:
1. Columbus Day Emergent Reader (vocab= journey, explorer)
2. Letter uppercase and lowercase match
3. Tracing and writing letter Ss and finding words that begin with the Ss sound
4. Independent Centers –
a. Journal Page- Students use their own creativity to draw a picture. Students will
dictate a sentence to the teacher or try to label parts of the picture using
vocabulary cards.
b. Listening Center – Letter Sounds from Lakeshore
c. Letter Matching puzzles- Students match capital letter to lowercase letter
d. Letter Sound Matching game from Lakeshore
e. Computer – Lexia
Wednesday 10/14
Large Group: Read a book on Community Helpers asking and answering questions about the
text. Community Helper Power point.
Literacy Centers:
1. CVC word Picture Clue game
2. Beginning Sound folder game
3. Review A,T,S words with cut and paste
4. Independent Centers –
a. Journal Page- Students use their own creativity to draw a picture. Students will
dictate a sentence to the teacher or try to label parts of the picture using
vocabulary cards.
b. Listening Center – Letter Sounds from Lakeshore
c. Letter Matching puzzles- Students match capital letter to lowercase letter
d. Letter Sound Matching game from Lakeshore
e. Computer – Lexia
Thursday 10/15
Large Group: Community Helper PowerPoint and bubble map
Literacy Centers:
1. “I Can Help” reader
2. Community Helpers poem and activity sheet
3. Letter Ss writing and drawing
4. Independent Centers –
a. Journal Page- Students use their own creativity to draw a picture. Students will
dictate a sentence to the teacher or try to label parts of the picture using
vocabulary cards.
b. Listening Center – Letter Sounds from Lakeshore
c. Letter Matching puzzles- Students match capital letter to lowercase letter
d. Letter Sound Matching game from Lakeshore
e. Computer – Lexia
Friday 10/16
Large Group: Community Helper PowerPoint and bubble map on learned information
Literacy Centers:
1. Class Book on favorite community helper
2. Letters and Colors activity with community helpers
3. Letter S activity sheet
4. Independent Centers –
a. Journal Page- Students use their own creativity to draw a picture. Students will
dictate a sentence to the teacher or try to label parts of the picture using
vocabulary cards.
b. Listening Center – Letter Sounds from Lakeshore
c. Letter Matching puzzles- Students match capital letter to lowercase letter
d. Letter Sound Matching game from Lakeshore
e. Computer – Lexia
Math—Weekly Focus K.CC.4ab, K.CC.5, K.OA.3, K.MD.3
Topic D
Tuesday – Lesson 12: Understand the meaning of zero
Wednesday – Lesson 13: Order and write numerals 0-3 to answer how many
Thursday – Lesson 14: Write numerals 1-3
Friday – Lesson 15: Order and write numerals 4 and 5 to answer how many
Tuesday 10/13
Whole group: Math Modules Topic D Lesson 12 and Problem Set
Centers: Lunch number practice
Adding within 5
Lesson 12 Exit Ticket
Cooking Up the Next Number – Students pick a card and find the missing number
Wednesday 10/14
Whole group: Math Modules Topic D Lesson 13 and Problem Set
Centers: Lunch number practice
Adding within 5
Lesson 13 Exit Ticket
Apples for the Teacher – Students count apples in ten frames and write the number
Thursday 10/15
Whole group: Math Modules Topic D Lesson 14 and Problem Set
Centers: Lunch number practice
Adding within 5
Lesson 14 Exit Ticket
Roll, Trace, Color – Students roll a number 1-5 and color the fire hydrant or flame
with corresponding number
Friday 10/16
Whole group: Math Modules Topic D Lesson15 and Problem Set
Centers: Lunch number practice
Adding within 5
Lesson 15 Exit Ticket
Counting in the Community – Students find community helpers scattered around
the room and color the corresponding number
Integrated ELA—Community Helpers/Safety
Monday 9/28-Friday 10/2
SL.K.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten
topics and text with peers and adults in small and large groups by community helpers.
Tuesday – Video on Community Helpers
Wednesday – Community Helpers emergent readers
Thursday – Superhero craft
Friday – Finish Class Book
II Time
Pulling students for:
 emergent reader practice
 Reading Street group
 weekly journals
 Lexia