Mrs. Albanese's Kindergarten Class

Weekly Plans - Week 30 (Apr. 15-19)

I truly believe that time flies to the end of the school year once we pass March Break.

I can't believe I'm typing up weekly plans for the middle of April already!

These past few weeks have been a little interrupted with Easter and then the solar eclipse which made them shorter weeks at school so you will notice we didn't change too many centres around our classroom this week.

The sensory bin was probably THE most popular centre we had!

Here's a look at our centres this week:

What can you build using metal parts?

Can you create a flower arrangement?

Can you make perfume using dried flowers?

(These are the tulips that we painted a few weeks ago!)

The last couple of weeks our focus in math was on addition and students learned how to use these addition mats to help them solve simple equations. We left them out for students to try on their own! There are pink and blue questions (more challenging!).

With our fine motor small group we will be using clothespins to pick up and sort various sizes of pom poms.

Our students love playing sight word games so I created a new one perfect for spring!

This week (and next) our focus in math is subtraction.

We will be working in small groups playing these games!

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.

addition, dinosaurs, solar eclipse, spring

Weekly Plans - Week 29 (Apr. 8-12)

It's such an exciting week ahead as we prepare for the solar eclipse!

Monday will only be a half day (morning) for the students. We will be reading a book and watching a video to help us understand this amazing natural phenomena!

Here's a little craft we will be making this week too! Tape the circle to your black construction paper. Use oil pastels to colour around the circle and then use your fingers to smudge it!

Here's a look at our centres this week:

We added small foam blocks to our water bin along with plastic people.

Can you build a boat for the people?

What can you build using the magnetic rods?

How many bugs can you pick up before the timer runs out?

Can you create a flower using playdough and loose parts?

Let's decorate the rainbow using loose parts at our light table!

Roll and erase the numbers (using a paintbrush with water) on our Tuff Tray.

Spring coding! What stories lie here?

Our spring themed small world play.

We added our Spring Words chart to our Writing Centre.

In our weekly Writer's Workshop lessons we are learning how to take all the amazing stories we have been writing and turn them into a digital version using the My Story Book Maker app (free and paid versions available).

You can follow along with our weekly writing lessons here:

At our Science and Discovery Centre we set out a provocation all about dinosaurs!

We added felt dinosaurs to our felt board.

This is the perfect game to play as we are continuing to learn about addition!

Choose a domino and add the numbers on each side. Place it in the correct spot on the parking lot!

You can find this game below!

As we continue with addition, we will be focusing on rolling dice and adding that many animals to the zoo. Then students will learn how to create an addition sentence.

Going fishing is such a fun game! Use the magnetic fishing rod to catch 2 fish. Turn the numbers into an addition sentence and add them up!

We are ending the week with some Think Math problems! We will use manipulatives to solve these!

Find all of these lessons/activities in my Addition in Kindergarten Pack!

We will be focusing on using tweezers to pick up pom poms and cover the dots on the letter cards with our fine motor group!

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.

3D figures, addition, spring

Weekly Plans - Week 28 (Apr. 1-5)

I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter long weekend! Can you believe it's already April?

I know it doesn't really feel like spring yet but the weather is set to warm up later this week so I will take that!

This is a short week coming up so we didn't switch up that many of our centres as last week was also short.

Here's a look at our centres this week:

We turned our Dramatic Play Centre into a Bakery! Students have been "baking" a lot while playing in here over the past few weeks and our lunch time supervisor donated a play coffee machine so we knew this centre would be a hit!

You can see more here:

A parent gifted our class us these beautiful tulips so we decided to leave them out at our Science and Discovery Centre for students to look closely and paint.

At our Sensory Bin we tinted water green and added plastic mini eggs and egg cups along with a variety of scooping tools.

Can you construct a letter?

What can you build using 3D figures?

Pick a card and build it! This game is called Match Madness.

Can you design a spring picture using the geoboards?

We explored 3D figures over the past two weeks and introduced this game to the students - Can you build it? They really enjoyed it so we added it to our Math Centre.

You can click the link below to see more!

Poking - use the large push pin and poke the flower!

This week (and next) our focus in math will be on addition.

Here are a few of the activities/lessons that we will be doing:

I like using these addition mats to show students how two separate numbers come together to make a larger number. They drag all of the pom-poms to the larger box on the bottom and count to get their answer.