Kindergarten+Nursery+Rhyme+Unit

=Kindergarten Nursery Rhyme unit =

Year long plan – 2011-2012
====**Most of the half-page take home coloring sheets (for the **** refrigerator ****magnets) are in this PowerPoint. **====

[[file:Week 6 - Sept 6 - 9 (K).doc]][[file:Old Woman in the Shoe.doc]]
====week 7: “The old woman in the shoe” review week / discussion of homes – animal homes – fiction and nonfiction discussions – read Miss Malarkey doesn’t live in room 10 (fiction) and Animal homes (nonfiction) discuss differences. ====

[[file:Week 8 - Sept 19 - 23 - K.doc]]
====week 9: “jack be nimble” review week / fire safety / stop, drop and roll game / book: Day in the life of a firefighter (nonfiction) / begin discussion of parts of a book ====

====week 13: (I was out sick 2 days and no Kindergarten on Friday, so did a simple lesson on Rosemary Wells books and used bunny money to do some math practice) ====

====week 14: “Little Miss muffet” / rhyming words / parts of a book / acting out the nursery rhyme using the “tuffet” / spider research with nonfiction books ====

[[file:spider research.ppt]]
====week 15: “little miss muffet” review week / review spider facts from last week / learn about insects / fiction and nonfiction / books: Little squeegy bug (fiction) and Insects (nonfiction) / students look at insect nonfiction books on their own ====

[[file:Week 15 - Nov. 21 - 22 - K (thanksgiving).doc]]
====week 16: “Old mother hubbard” / rhyming words and discussion / act out the rhyme / book: Mother Hubbard’s Christmas / have kids put “food” in the correct spot – refrigerator or cupboard ====

[[file:Week 16 - Nov 28 - Dec 2 - K.doc]]
====week 17: “old mother hubbard” review week / books about food: __beastly feast__ and __mouse mess__ / make our own “cupboard” and put “food” in it (from grocery store ads) ====

[[file:Week 17 - Dec 5 - 9 - K.doc]]
====week 18: “Twinkle, twinkle little star” / rhyming words, song on CD – sing along / create sparkly stars from pasta and glitter glue to make a Christmas ornament ====

**Christmas Break**
====week 19: “Twinkle, twinkle little star” review week / talk about winter and animals who hibernate / read fiction book Bear snores on and nonfiction book Hibernation / Play hibernation game ====

[[file:Week 19 -Jan 4 - 6 - K.doc]]
====week 20: “Hickory dickory dock” / rhyming words –ock / act out nursery rhyme with hands / read __mouse count__ and __The little mouse and the red ripe strawberry__ / create clock and mouse craft ====

[[file:Week 20 -Jan 9 - 13 - K.doc]]
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[[file:hickory dickory.ppt]]
====week 22: Nursery rhyme review week – review all previous nursery rhymes and take a survey of the class’s favorites / count, compare and graph the results / read Gingerbread man loose in the school / color and decorate a gingerbread man ====

[[file:Week 22 - Jan 23 - 27 - K.doc]]
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====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 23: “Baa, baa black sheep” / students color and sheep and we sing the nursery rhyme again with their color sheep / shelfmarker introduction and practice / have students check out books from the shelves ====

[[file:Baa Baa black sheep coloring page.doc]]
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 24: “baa, baa black sheep” review week / act out the nursery rhyme / books: from sheep to sweater (nonfiction) and where is the green sheep (fiction) / discussion of parts of a book, fiction and nonfiction and review how to use shelfmarker / kids color and cut out a sheep ====

[[file:Week 25 - Feb 13 - 17 - K.doc]][[file:JackJill - Sequencing.doc]]
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 26: “jack and jill” review week / Living things need water / celery and food coloring science experiment / book: __Every living thing__ and __What living things need: water__ / Living things need water cut and paste activity ====

[[file:Week 26 - Feb 20 - 24 - K.doc]][[file:Water cut and paste activity.doc]]
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 27: Read across America week! Book: The Foot Book / Opposites / draw outline of feet, cut out and write and draw a pair of opposites on each foot / stick the “feet” on my “big foot” cut out ====

[[file:Week 29 - Mar 26 - 30 - K.doc]][[file:Fry words for eggs.doc]]
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 30: “humpty dumpty” review week / act out the rhyme / book: __Humpty dumpty climbs again__ / rhyming words –all / create a new rhyme with words that end in –all and illustrate it ====

[[file:Week 30 - Apr 2 - 6 - K.doc]][[file:demoHumptyDumptyMiniUnit.pdf]]
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 31: “Little boy blue” / rhyming words / add “corn” (popcorn) and “grass” (green paper) to the cows / book: Farm flu / make Little boy blue story wheel ====

[[file:Little Boy Blue farm animal math facts.doc]]
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 33: (half TCAP week) Discussion of author visit by Steven Riley / read book by Steven Riley Little Ty Cooney and the big Yosemite race / raccoon facts / nonfiction raccoon book / make a paper bag raccoon puppet ====

====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 35: “Mary, mary quite contrary” / rhyming and vocabulary words / act out rhyme / ordinal number (flowers and stems) activity / book: Zinnia’s flower garden (may want to do __Coriander, the Contrary Hen__ next year) / make a “silver bell flower” craft ====

====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">week 36: “Mary, mary quite contrary” review week / parts of a flower / book: Sunflower house / color and label parts of a sunflower and add real sunflower seeds to the middle of the flower ====