Subject-Verb Agreement

According to our Journey's Kindergarten Curriculum, I am supposed to be teaching subject-verb agreement this week, however, we do not have any of the resources that go along with the plans, so I had to get a little creative!

I made my own little subject-verb agreement unit which includes posters, whole-group pocket chart activities, and independent practice worksheets and I used them with my class before sharing on TPT. The kids really seemed to get it by the end of the week & I had fun teaching because I love testing my own products with them and I love interactive learning!


We started out with a lesson on what the subject and verb are in a sentence by looking at some posters from the unit and discussing the example sentences. Then we worked together to find and circle the subjects and underline the verbs in a few different sentences that I projected up on the screen (these are included in the packet & can be used as a pocket chart activity as well).

And of course wrapped it all up with a worksheet for independent practice:

In our next lesson we looked at another poster and discussed the fact that the subject and verb need to agree with each other. I told them that they have a "meeting" and agree on who is going to carry the letter S. If the subject is plural then the subject agrees to carry the S and the verb doesn't have to worry about a thing. If the subject is singular, however, then the verb agrees to carry the S and gives the subject a break. Then we read the example sentences on the poster and I made sure to very clearly point out and emphasize the fact that when the sentence was talking about more than one WHO or WHAT (A.K.A. a plural SUBJECT) then the subject got the s!!!!! (I hope you can sense the overdramatic articulation and repetition that I used in this discussion from my italicizing, bolding, and underlining☺️ ).

Feel free to take this freebie for your class!

Once I felt like they sort of got it, I whipped out a pocket chart activity and told them that I would read the sentences out loud and that they would help me choose the correct words to put in the blanks. For the first few sentences I pointed out whether or not the subject had an S at the end to help them choose the verb that did or did not have it's own S. After that I let them do it all by themselves.

When we finished completing the pocket chart sentences, we headed back to our tables and did a "Do the Subject and Verb agree?" worksheet. (They were all laughing a little too hard when I read the sentences aloud that didn't make sense).

If you want to try this unit it out with your class, you can click on the picture below and purchase it from my TPT store. Have a great weekend! 

Ash Wednesday

Today we spent some time talking about why and how we observe the 40 days of Lent. We focused on three main vocabulary words: Pray, Fast, and Give. We talked about how we can make a resolution (just like new year's!) to pray more often, give alms, and fast or give up something that we don't really need.
We're going to be collecting money for Catholic Relief Services using the rice bowls this year, so a lot of kids said that they would make the resolution to give all of their money to the poor (I told them that it would be OK to give some money to the poor and keep some for themselves - didn't want any parents getting upset).
After brainstorming a long list of things that we can work on during lent, I had each of them write down their lenten resolutions on this paper: (grab it for free on TPT!)

Then, they cut out purple crosses to glue their writing paper onto:

Here are some of their finished products!

"For Lent I will give the toys I don't play and give clothes what do not fit me and pray every day and night."

 "For Lent I will give my toys to the people who don't have toys and the people that are poor. Also pray for the people that are poor."

"For Lent I will pray for people. I will try to be good. I will give ip taking baths (?!?!?!) when I am clean. I am going to pray for Jesus."

'Twas the Night Before Halloween

Ok, so, it's not exactly the night before Halloween, but it's getting close! Since my school spends all day Friday celebrating the holiday, I decided to spend Thursday doing fun Halloween activities in class with the little ones. This week has been out of control with Red Ribbon Week events, activities, dress up days and more, so I'm ready for a fun-filled day in Kindergarten.

Most, if not all, of what we will be doing I got for free, so I'll include links to everything in case you are interested in using it yourself! Here is our plan for tomorrow:

Math

Count to 100 Every Day

(we literally do this every day and they still love it)

After this quick warm up we will be doing some Halloween hundreds chart pictures:

Next, we will review patterns (which we have been working on for a while now) and complete this Halloween pattern worksheet: 

Reading & Writing

Next, we will be reading Aaaargghh, Spider! (if you don't have this book there are plenty of read-aloud videos on youtube of the book) and completing a graphing and writing activity from this mini unit created by Miss Kindergarten.

Art Project

Just for Fun

Happy Halloween!

First Day of Fall

Happy belated first day of Fall! I did not realize that that was yesterday until I got to work in the morning and saw Google's cute little ad. I panicked! What kind of Kindergarten doesn't know the date of the first day of fall and prepare crafts and fun activities well in advance?! This kind. But you know what, I did a great job of winging it and the kids had no clue that it was all planned last minute! Hooray! Thanks to a few other wonderful teachers who shared their ideas, we were able to celebrate the change of season all day.

First, we used a few worksheets from this awesome packet by This Reading Mama to practice math skills such as counting and sorting pumpkins, scarecrows, leaves and more by different attributes.

Next, because we are working on reading color words and drawing detailed pictures, we completed the coloring sheet that you can see on the bottom, right of the picture above. After coloring in the tree and leaves, I asked everyone to add at least five details to the background.

Then we reviewed letter sounds using this fun activity from Miss Kindergarten that you can pick up here.

That's about all I was able to squeeze in today, but I wanted to share this fabulous list of 50 Free Fall Printables for Kids that saved my life today!