Student Centered Syllabus Santoski

Monday
-Identify and
participate in
the calendar
routine

Tuesday
-Identify and
participate in
the calendar
routine

-Engage fine
motor skills
through kinderdevelopment

-Engage fine
motor skills
through kinderdevelopment

Math
Play Ordinal
number game
Learn about
bean stick place
value

Math
Play a more or
less
SmartBoard
game Whole
group

Wednesday
-Identify and
participate in
the calendar
routine
-Engage fine
motor skills
through kinderdevelopment

Thursday
-Identify and
participate in the
calendar routine

Math
Play a more or
less
SmartBoard
game Whole
group

Math
Play a more or
less SmartBoard
game Whole
group
Reading

Reading
Reading

Use number
bond sheets to
create a story of
5, 10, 20
Reading
Increase
understanding
of concept of
word by
explaining what
words mean,
how words can
be long or short,
and reading
The Itsy Bitsy
Spider
literature
Use pictures
that were taken
by Ms. Mercado
and Ms. Santoski
on Friday within
the classroom to
create a
classroom

-Engage fine
motor skills
through kinderdevelopment

Reading Eggs

Choral Read a
small letter R
book
Word study
through the
introduction of
at and an using
the smartboard
Use number
cards, word
cards and
nursery rhymes
to isolate
individual words
Increase
understanding
of concept of
word through
buy my
sentence game

Friday
-Identify and
participate in
the calendar
routine
-Engage fine
motor skills
through kinderdevelopment

Math
Play Ordinal
number game
Learn about
bean stick place
value

Reading Eggs
Cut apart the
feature (at) and
sort words
underneath

Play a be the
sound game
using index
cards to form a
word and stress
the sound heard
in each word
Use the book
Its Raining, Its
Pouring by Kin
Eagle to focus
on rhyme
discrimination
and recognition
Finish research
on Thanksgiving
then and now
and begin
creating their

Reading
Cut apart the
feature (an) and
sort words
underneath

Play a slip and

slide
wordsplash
game to practice
blending sounds
together to form
words

Through teacher
modeling,
picture cards and
word cards, sort
words that
rhyme and those
that do not
rhyme into
different piles
Work on each

Complete our
ABC book page
for letter R
through
identification of
a word,
sentence,
picture and
example
Play Head,
Waist and Toes
to isolate the
sounds they
hear in words
Read and
identify each
part of the word
in Five Little
Ducks
Put words
together by
isolating each

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scrapbook
write about and
represent
pictorially what
is happening in
each picture and
put descriptions
and pictures in a
class album
Play
concentration
with our sight
words
Engage in a
research project
on Thanksgiving
then and now
using library
books,
webpages and
interviews of
teachers
Practice our
letters and
sounds through
watercolor
Write the
Rainbow
letters/sight
words/
sentences

Units
Create a KWL
chart about
what we know
as a class about
thanksgiving
Read P is for
Pilgrim by Carol

Use fiction and

nonfiction books
about
Thanksgiving
then and now to
write down
information on a
flow chart
Trace, highlight,
sort and color
uppercase and
lowercase R
Write the
Room by
finding all
sheets in the
room that start
with the letter R
Units
Read Aloud One
is a Feast for a
Mouse by Judy
Cox and talk
about setting,
characters,
problem,
solution

own book
Practice
handwriting
through letter
writing

page of the
Thanksgiving
then and now
book

letter through a
picture puzzle
activity
Continue work
on Thanksgiving
book with
sentence
creation

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Crane

*We Read Aloud books every day even if they are not mentioned on the plans
*Plans subject to change