Each center has a mini lesson that will be taught whole-group between center rotations; assessment varies for each activity, and small group or individual instruction will be provided daily during continual assessment throughout the week Center Activity Standard Assessment Writing Free writing about CCSS: ELA:WK2: Use a BHE Kindergarten anything that combination of drawing, writing rubric; individual relates to the dictating, and writing to conferences with each ocean; pictures compose student; anecdotal that students use informative/explanatory notes on skills for ideas will be texts in which they replaced with ocean name what are writing animal/scene cards about and supply some information about the (writing can be topic about a family trip to the beach, maybe going fishing once, a made-up story about a shark, etc.) Puzzles & Math Stories game CCSS:Math:K.OA2: Solve The activity is a game, addition and subtraction but students will Games (gold fish might be word problems, and add record their answers incorporated for a and subtract within 10, on a recording sheet lesson, maybe use e.g., by using objects or which will be assessed; sSt Patricks Day drawings to represent small group instruction related word the problem will be created for stories for Friday) those that do not understand working word problems ABC Rhyming words CCSS:ELA: RSF.2A: Students will be game Recognize and produce matching rhyming rhyming words. words in the game, so (create recording a recording sheet will sheet and decide on be used for students number of rhyming to record the rhyming pairs that must be words, then a checklist created) and anecdotal notes will th th
March 13 -17 Centers be used to determine who has mastered the skill and who needs extra help Make & Maker Station with Louisiana Art Content Students will create items that relate Standards- Aesthetic their own creations Do (M/T) to the ocean and a perception: Benchmark using various materials variety of art 4: Recognize that there and mediums, then mediums: sea shells, are many possibilities asked a series of sponges, paint, and choices in the questions such as scissors, processes for designing what materials did and producing visual arts you use to create this picture? what other materials could you have used to create a similar picture? (W/TH) Students will be La GLEs: LS-E-A2: Students will be given a given a tub of Classify objects as living recording sheet in items which will be (biotic) or nonliving which they will classify composed of blue (abiotic). the objects they find slime to represent as living or non-living. ocean water, in the water will be Students will be asked different questions to determine creatures and if they understand the objects found in terms biotic and the ocean. abiotic. Students will have to dig in the bucket to find items in which they will determine if they are living (biotic) or non-living (abiotic).