We are back to school! I have changed things up a bit for K’s Kindergarten, therefore I will change how I organize the Kindergarten with Krash blog posts.
Each week he will have 3-4 areas: You Can Read, RRSK, Calvert, and a Theme of the Week {if we have one}. This past week we kicked off our new routine!
We are still using his workboxes, he just uses all 9 now that he is a big boy!
You Can Read: Unit 7 {play, find, to, run}
RRSK: Letter Aa
Theme of the Week: PIRATES
OK, I must say I am IN LOVE with the fact that RRS has come back into our lives again, I was missing it! The difference in Krash now is phenomenal! It has been so fun to revisit this verse and talk about it with him, read the book, and watch him grow. He just gets it so much more now. It became very obvious to me this week that expanding RRS to Kindergarten was totally a God thing, as HE has totally shown up this week as we have worked with this RRSK unit.
You can download all of the printables for this unit FREE here on the main RRSK page, just scroll down until you see them!
We did 2 activities from the set per day, making 10 total activities.
He loved tracing his verse as we practiced it together…
I did the cutting for him, he searched for the words as we recalled the verse together. We did this on day 2, and he knew the verse tune by this point and was singing it to me in the photo on the right. He was at the part that says “verse 1” and was holding up his 1 finger! So cute!
He has decided {for now at least} that he would like to teach the song to other kids, so he made a video for you! I sure hope he is willing to do this every week!! You can download the printable with the verse tune here on the RRSP Letter Aa webpage.
He really liked glittering the word…
then, he chose markers he liked to trace the bottom portion…
LOVE the tongue. Above you can also see the mini book sitting next to him. We are pulling the book out to work on it again. The easy reader is a part of the Letter Aa RRS Preschool set.
Following my oral directions…
Finding words that start with A and actually enjoying the tracing of the letters!
Practicing counting and writing numbers through 20…
At the end of the unit he told me his story, which I love. 
He was a bit confused, but that’s to be expected. I explained that I wanted him to look at the picture {of the mom with the kids on the couch} and think of a story to tell me about it.
Here it is:
Once there was a snowy week then soon happened a tornado came after the snow. Soon the storm stopped. Then they were driving in a car and they were speeding like super fast and they got in trouble. Then they were driving in the car again and soon there was another tornado and they drove into it. Then they turned and went in their bedrooms and sat on the couch with their mom. She said, “it will be alright kids.” They went to bed and went to sleep until the storm stopped. The tornado was crazy, it kept going and going! It barley stopped for 15 hours and then the snow came back. Then they were finally happy. They shouted to God, “ Thank you for stopping this storm.”
He loved watching me write and kept saying, “man that is a big word, wow!” Dictating stories teaches kids so many things, I hope you enjoy this with your young children too!
RRSK Letter Aa Printables Here!
We used unit 7 from You Can Read. Here’s a glimpse into some of the You Can Read work he did…
Tracing is so much more fun with a Dollar Tree pen…
Now that he is a big boy, he colored all 4 Color by # Sight Words in one sitting, and I laminated them to use for Word Play!
He also used them as templates as he put together his words.
He completed a word reading assessment and read 21 correctly, missing 11-which showed me the words he needed to work on. One of the new activities Annie from The Moffat Girls has created: Sight Word Graphing, featured one of his trouble words: said, as well as the sight word for RRSK Letter Aa: away, so I had him work on it!
Funny Fonts with dot paint…
Tracing his words using our dry erase activity center…
Finding words in sentences {one of his favorites}…
At the end of the week, we will be adding to his word caterpillar. He re-reads the words up there to me…
…then heads to the floor with me to see if he can read any others that he has learned so far. He cannot add them to the caterpillar until he can read them quickly on his own! 
This needs no explanation, right?
Probably the most fun word play ever. Get your nerf guns out and start shooting.
Check out more wonderful Word Play ideas here!
*~*~ PIRATES!~*~*
My boy loves pirates. I don’t really dig them, but oh well…it made for a fun theme! See links to the resources we used here in the Pirate Theme Post.
Here he is clipping his pirate sounds…
Using The Moffat Girls Pirate Counting by 10 printables in our wall pocket chart…
He also did the counting by 10’s puzzle from the same pirate set…
The Kindergarten Printables were a HUGE success! Probably his favorite part-which surprised me! He loved learning more than/less than with the pirate images and alligator. We joked that the alligator would only eat MORE. We used our mini pocket chart and played the “game” many times and in various ways. Sometimes leaving the alligator out, sometimes putting him in first and putting the amounts in the proper place. Best part-he had no CLUE he was learning , he just had fun!
The number line activity was his very favorite and he asked to play with me in his free time! First, I taught him that it was a number line and we talked about why. We practiced counting and then began hiding numbers under the pirate. It turned into a fun close-your-eyes game and he greatly improved his “counting-on” skills while playing!
He also loved sorting coins with the pirates!
Playing the pirate graphing game from 2 Teaching Mommies…
Reading MANY pirate books!
Building with Guidecraft City Blocks is always a favorite… 
Magneatos continue to come out a lot, this was a special waterfall shower contraption…
Helping Ladybug with her work-he LOVES this!
He too loved the tong game, you can read about it here!
He adores our kitchen, you can see my full review about it here! 
Krash lived up to his nickname getting his very first stitches this past week! He got two on his forehead after tumbling from the high monkey bars while on the playground at church. he was such a trooper!!!
A few items we used…
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