Happy Sunday, all! As I'm thinking ahead to this week's theme, I'm also thinking about last week's theme, one of my favorites - Plaidypus Lost. It's about a little girl, whose grandma sews her a "plaidypus" out of her grandpa's plaid shirt. Throughout the course of the book, she loses the plaidypus, and then finds it. It's a great book for teaching about what a poem is, and there is a lot of repetition. Your kids will be reciting the whole book by the end of the week!
Let me show you what I did in my centers for this week!
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| (I took in Aidan's special quilt from his grandma, that has squares from his daddy's shirt.) |
1. Literacy Center:
I found this free Literacy Center worksheet at teacherspayteachers.com. It's simple, which is great, because then the kids can do it on their own, but it reinforces the letters we're working on.
I made a word family game, using paint chips. I wrote the ending on a white rectangle with a window, and the beginning letter on the paint chip, with the idea that they can slide it up or down to read CVC words. I drew a colored dot in the corner of the white rectangle, to add one more element of matching the colors. The kids really enjoyed it!
Our reading curriculum also comes with these great sequencing cards for each story. The kids had fun putting them together!
2. Math Center
This week we are learning about patterns, which works out perfectly for the idea of "plaid". I found two different "plaidypus" cliparts, which I printed out, and made a pattern chart for. I differentiated it for on-level students, and below-level students. For on level, the instructions just say "make an AB pattern". For the below-level students, each box says "A" or "B", to help them out a little.
I also found a good adding worksheet that was platypus themed. My kids haven't learned adding yet, so I wrote in 1+1, 2+1, 3+1, etc. I also gave them manipulatives to help them. This was my above-level activity.
3. Science center
I love when the theme leaves room for science, which is actually pretty regularly. This week I had a platypus coloring sheet here, that showed their natural habitat.
4. Listening Center/Media
As I explained last week, I combined all the audio for the week into a playlist, which the kids then listen to. We also watched the Octonauts episode that featured platypus. It's on Netflix, or you can find it on Youtube.
5. Craft. So, this wasn't a center, but we made a pretty cute craft this week. I drew the outline of the Plaidypus, which the kids cut out. Then, I gave them each a few squares of scrapbook paper with different patterns on them (tying back into the math unit). They glued them on, cut back down around them, glued on button eyes and a beak, and voila!
We had a really fun week, and hopefully the kiddos learned something along the way!
See you next week, for Miss Kindergarten Takes a Field Trip!
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