Lesson plans, Dental Health, and Sight Words

Working, working, working on getting my lesson plans finished.  

I have now made it to the end of April, however I do have some of the last few weeks finished, just not completely put together.  I now feel if I go into labor tonight (wishful thinking) I have enough planned and ready to go.

Top view of lesson plans.  I actually have one more crate on the right. This is everything for the rest of the year.

I tried to put everything together that my sub would need.  Copies of what the students are completing and any projects they are working on.  Also, sight word flash cards and sight word word wall words.  Phonogram posters and word family posters.  Basically everything my sub will need for the week is in the crate week by week.  On some weeks I even added what books she will need to get from our library.

This has taken me a while to do, however I think it is worth it.  I really only had to make 2 weeks of lesson plans for my sub for when I leave, however I wanted to make sure my students were covering everything they needed to by the end of the year.

I do like how I have put everything together in the crates.  I may do this every year to help make the year flow better.

This week I had to test my students on sight words, phonograms, and letters for mid-terms.  Once I was finished assessing all the students I wrote down what each child missed.  Then I had my assistant write out flash cards for the students so they could practice at home.

This week we also studied Dental Health.  Here are some of the writings we did.

The first writing we did together.

The Dentist is my friend.

The Dentist is my friend.

For the next writing, I gave the students a picture of a tooth and they had to write about it. 

I brush my teeth.

I wanted to concentrate on writing during this unit.  We have been working on starting with an uppercase and adding an end mark.

Dental Health Ideas and Sight Word Hop

Dental Health and Sight Word Hop

This week my kiddos are learning about Dental Health.  Here are some of the things we did. 

 

Read some stories about teeth.

 We made a fresh clean mouth.  I have also copied the teeth pattern on yellow paper and had the students "brush" their teeth white with white paint.  Here is a FREEBIE!!!!  Here is the pattern for the mouth.

 Completed a writing about how the Dentist is your friend.

 Practiced brushing teeth using the bottom of a pop bottle (looks like a molar) and shaving cream.  (I have learned only to put the smallest bit on the molar of shaving cream or it is really really messy).

 I remind the students to use little circles when brushes and to get into all the little spots.

 The students really enjoy brushing their molar.

 We practice flossing.  We used half of an egg carton and a piece of yarn.  I showed them how to wrap the yarn/floss around their finger and how to wiggle the floss down each tooth. 

Another activity we completed was stretching out a sentence together about Dental Health.  We decided to write our teeth our healthy and then the students had to illustrate the sentence.  They had to show me how their teeth were healthy or what they could do to keep them healthy.

We also watched two cartoon movies about Dental Health and have a Dentist coming in to talk with the students.

Sight Word Hop

Today I had my students practice sight words by hopping them.  I partnered the kiddos up and then I made a trail around the room.  I assigned one partner to read the words and the other one to be the referee.  I reminded the referees not to tell the answer to their partner but to help by reminding them to sound it out.  Then I had the students start on the trail.  Once the first group reached a certain point, I let the next group go.  After the partners went, they walked back around to the front and the opposite partner read the words.  The students LOVE doing this.  Plus it motivates them to get the words quickly so they can hop around the trail faster.  

Sight Word Hop

Sight Word Hop