Weekly Plans - Week 27 (Mar. 25-29)

This week coming up is definitely one of my favourite times of the year - Holy Week!
We have planned many activities that focus on Easter (religious and non-religious) for our students.
We will be making these beautiful Easter cards for our families using a technique where marbles are rolled around in paint.




This is our craft - a simple Easter cross with gems.

We will be listening to many Easter stories including this book, Benjamin's Box, which is one of my favourites!
We use Resurrection Eggs to retell the story. It's always a hit in our class!

We will also be reenacting the Last Supper by sharing bread and grape juice.
Students will be creating these rip art pictures.

We will also be retelling the Easter story using these picture cards.

You can find all of the above (and so much more!) in my Catholic Religion Activities - Ash Wednesday, Lent & Holy Week (Easter) pack.

Here's a look at our centres this week:

Can you use loose parts to decorate the Easter egg in the Tuff Tray?

Can you create your own Easter game?
We left out various dice, a timer, tweezers, small Easter baskets and a box full of plastic carrots.

Retell the Easter Bunny poem at the Felt Board or make up your own!

We set up an Easter village at the Small World Play Centre.

Let's play a game of Easter Tic-Tac-Toe!

Use the loose parts to decorate the Easter pictures at the Light Table.

We are even playing one of our favourite games - Headbands - with an Easter twist!


We are continuing our inquiry on magnets this week...can you use the magnets to move the items in the bottle? Some are magnetic and others are not!

Play "Find It! Spring" at the Pocket Chart Centre.

Can you stack the bunnies?

Choose a jellybean. Open it and sound out the CVC word. Write the word on your paper and colour the jellybean to match!
You can also put these inside plastic Easter eggs!
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To practice letters/sounds we will be playing the game "Crash" in small groups this week!

To continue to practice or sight words, we will be playing "Crack! An Easter Sight Word Game".


The students needing a little extra support with fine motor skills will be working on cutting skills this week.
You can find all of these templates in my Fine Motor - Cut It! pack in my TpT store (click below).


We are continuing with our story telling unit in writing. The students have been loving this!
We use my Story Writing template which clearly outlines step by step how to think of a story.
This week we will continue using this and I will also introduce the app called "My Story" to the students, which allows them to draw and design their story, even add voice, to bring it to life!

In math, our focus continues to be 3D figures. We left out these foam 3D figures at the Math Centre for students to use and construct different things.

Our Year 2 students will be creating riddle books for our Year 1 friends entitled, "What Am I?"
Choose a 3D figure. Give clues - describe it and list some examples.
Can you guess what 3D figure is hiding underneath?


You can find these fun activities in my 3D Figures/Shapes pack in my TpT store.

Here are my weekly plans if you'd like to download!


If you would like the editable version to modify this for your own class click HERE.  
The original blank PowerPoint file has been uploaded onto Google Slides but the formatting has changed.

Weekly Plans - Week 26 (Mar. 18-22)

We are back from our March Break trip to Mexico and I'm not going to lie...after a week away in the sun doing just about nothing but snorkeling and sun tanning, this week may be a little rough! HA! Good thing we planned some quick and easy centres before we left to help everyone (educators included!) with the transition back to school.

We will be welcoming spring on Tuesday this week so we set out a bunch of activities!
I'm going to be reading the students the story Mouse's First Spring on Monday (see my plans below) and then they can retell the story on the felt board. I made these cut out pieces from felt years ago (it's not that hard to do, just takes some time).

Can you tell a spring story?

We also set out spring cookie cutters at our Playdough Centre.

Here's a look at our centres this week:

Our sensory bin is filled with Easter grass, plastic eggs, loose parts and tongs (shaped like bunny ears).

We made our own teeter totters by using blocks and Popsicle sticks. 
Can you balance the objects? It's actually a little harder than it looks!

We will be exploring magnets at the Science and Discovery Centre for the next few weeks!

This is a game we found on Temu - roll and knock over the number.

At the Light Table we set out another game - Sneaky Snake!
Roll the die and build a snake - who has the longest snake?
You can find this in my "Fun with Dice" pack on TpT (I printed the pieces on transparency paper to use at the Light Table but you can print on regular paper and play at a table top too!)


Can you stamp the beginning, middle, or end of the word?

I saw this activity on Twitter (I can't remember who posted it!) and thought it was so much fun!
Use the turkey baster to blow a cotton ball into the box!
A great game to strengthen fine motor skills!

In math we will be starting our unit on 3D Figures.
We will be going on a "3D Figures Shape Hunt" around the classroom, down the hall and even outside!

This is the game "What's in my Bag?". We play this several times during the next two weeks to practice identifying and describing 3D figures.


Sorting 3D figures in a muffin tin!

Roll, slide or both?

You can find everything I will be doing this week (and next!) in my 3D Figures pack in my TpT store.

I store all of my math units in Ziploc bags in my closet. It's super quick to pull out the bag and everything I need is ready to go!

Here are my weekly plans if you'd like to download!


If you would like the editable version to modify this for your own class click HERE.  
The original blank PowerPoint file has been uploaded onto Google Slides but the formatting has changed.