Kindergarten+2011

toc =Kindergarten Plans=

**Apr 9-13**

 * 1) Show BrainPop, Jr. video – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle here: []
 * 2) Discuss the ways students can reduce the amount of trash produced in their homes.
 * 3) Have students navigate to the Hand-Out folder and drag the Pixie file: You Can Recycle.pxi to their desktops and open. Ask students to drag the recyclable objects into the bin. Local recycling policies differ so watch out for differences between answers here.
 * 4) Circulate and check for progress – consider allowing students who finish early to label non-recyclables with compost, trash, donate, etc.
 * 5) Ask all students to save their work to their desktops AND to change the file name to “firstname recycles” and to quit Pixie. Check for one or two for color printing.
 * 6) After all students have saved & quit, ask the class to drag their new file to their network folder – the one labeled with their user name. Demonstrate the process and how to check.
 * 7) Direct students to the Hand-Out folder and follow the hyperlink to Free the Beach where students find recyclable materials and clean up the beach for its inhabitants. Ladybug Breakdown and Michael, Michael are both popular follow-ups for the end of class - the environmental message can get lost
 * 8) Have students log out, line up, and select two outstanding students for recognition.

**Apr 16-20**
1. Have students come in and get their laptops. Tell students that today we are going to start by reviewing [|Earth Day using a Sesame Street Playlist]. 2. Demonstrate for students how to drag the playlist to their desktop and start the playlist after they have logged in. Assist students with using individual headphones. 3. When students finish the playlist have them come up and sit on the front carpet for the next set of directions. 4. Show students a magnifying glass. Ask students if they can identify it? Have they ever used it? What is it used for? 5. Show students[| I, Magnify video segment from Sid the Science Kid] to confirm/deny predictions/ideas. 6. Tell students that today we are going to take a field trip to the Courtyard to find an item in nature that we can magnify. 7. Review with students how to use a magnifying glass as well as expectations for them in the courtyard. Consider grouping students with a partner. Tell students to look at their item without the magnifying glass and then again with it. Share with their partner similarities and differences. 8. Gather students in the courtyard to discuss what you observed. 9. Bring class back to the technology room and collect all magnifying glasses. 10. Have students drag Pixie template to their desktop from the Hand Out Folder and open on their computers. 11. Using the document camara place the leaf/clover under the document camera on normal magnification. Ask students to describe what they see. 12. Allow students time using Pixie to draw what the item looks like under normal magnification. Use the camera feature in ArcSoft to snap a photo of the item to refer back to. 13. Then using the pink box, zoom, and eInstruction spotlight's feature magnify leaf/clover for students. Have students compare with their drawings and our previous view. What do they see? What do they think these changes are? Illustrate the changes on their Pixie document. 14. Print and Save Student work. 15. Have students logout and put their laptops away. 16. Select a SpecTECHular Student and assign a letter if class earned it.

__**File for Hand Out folder**__ - (Includes Pixie File and Sesame Street Playlist)

Earth Day/Spring Lesson > http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=5c7223b0-4b57-4d2d-939d-d7f03721aa5b Ask all students to log out. Line ‘em up at the door and ID one or two kids for spotlights if possible.
 * Apr 23-27**
 * 1) Have all students enter the Lab and log in. Once logged in, invite them to the carpet for the video and remind them about audience expectations.
 * 2) Show the ‘Spring has Sprung’ video from Ready, Set, Learn with Paz – stop the video as Paz leaves the house and discuss the new arrivals outside as spring arrived – flowers, green leaves, birds, etc.
 * 1) Ask all students to return to their seats and navigate to Hand-Out, Quatchie (Phil Held Hand-Out), and Holden. Students should drag the file ‘springgraph.pxi’ to their desktops and double-click to open in Pixie 2
 * 2) Demonstrate how to graph the objects and create a pictograph – the cherry blossoms are pretty easy but show and do together anyway – id from the key at the bottom, drag all the matching objects to the appropriate columns and move to the next. The sun is tricky – there’s only one of them but it’s too large fro the graph so it must be resized to fit! Remind students to use ONLY THE CORNERS to resize and use the Undo button as needed. Give kids about 10-20 minutes to finish the document and circulate.
 * 3) As students finish, remind them to save their work using the Command+S keyboard shortcut or by clicking File-Save. Ask students to check the red dot at the top left of the window – no black spot=saved; black spot=not saved!
 * 4) Have all students quit Pixie using the Command+Q keyboard shortcut and, if time allows. Direct them to the hand-out folder for a game of Michael, Michael, Go Recycle. If they tire of this game quickly, suggest that any of the Globe Rider games are ok.

**Apr 30-May 4**
1. Tell students that today we are going to be making a special digital image for our Mom's Review and discuss the definition of Digital Images. 2. Demonstrate how to drag the Mother's Day K file to their desktop. Tell students to open the file. 3. Review how to add text by double clicking and using the keyboard. Review where the space bar is on the keyboard and how it is used. Allow students time to type in their name and complete the two sentence starters from the paper they brought with them 4. Review the other tools that students can use in Pixie to make their picture. Share the sample. 5. Allow students time to work on their card. When they finish have them save their work as MomKMctrudden (MomKteachercodefirstinitiallastname) or complete the Optional Step below. 6. __**Optional:**__ Have the students export to their desktop and save .jpg as MomKMctrudden (MomKteachercodefirstinitiallastname) and then hand in or do it for them when they finish. 7. Turn in Pixie File or .Jpg to the Hand In Folder. 8. Have students quit out of Pixie and log off their computer. 9. Have sudents logout and clean up. 10. Select a SpecTECHular Student and award a letter if earned.

**May 7-11**

 * Finish Mother's Day**
 * Start Father's Day - Comic Life**

**May 21-25**
1. Tell students that today we are going to do an activity that is a follow up to their trip to the zoo last week. Show video on zoo's. [] 2. When the video is finished, ask students to describe their trip to the zoo. Elicit from students names of animals that they saw during their trip. 3. Have students get their laptops and login. 4. Have students go to the Hand Out Folder and download the Zoo Folder to their desktops. 5. Have students open the Animal Sort. Tell them that the animals got all mixed up. Discuss the different groups of animals and give students time to sort independently. After a few minutes do the first box together as a class. Then give them a few more minutes to work and go over the second box. Continue until they have all animals in the correct categories. Have students save and print their work. 6. With additional time have students explore the Animals & Pets Tab on the [|National Geographic for Kids website.]



__Quarter 3 Lessons__
Jan 24-27 Winter Comic Finish Teacher Prep: Add Student Winter Photos to the Hand Out Folder. 1. Students will come in sit down and login to their laptops. 2. Have students drag their photo from the Hand Out Folder to their desktop. Have them place their photo to the far right or far left of the desktop screen. 3. Show students how to open the Winter Comic they worked on last week. 4. Model for students how to drag their photo into the large box from their desktop. 5. Write the sentence starter on the board at the front of the classroom. WINTER IS..... Call on student volunteers to finish the sentence. Write student responses on the board. 6. Model for students how to add a speech bubble to their comic. 7. Demonstrate how to type in the speech bubble. Students will include a sentence that starts with Winter is (blank) and they will input their own word. 8. When they are finished have them save their work. 9. Have students turn their comics to the Hand in folder to print as a class book for their teacher. 10. Have sudents logout and clean up. 11. Select a SpecTECHular Student and award a letter if earned.

Rhyming 10. As time permits, consider having students follow the hyperlinks to Reggie the Rhying Rhino or to Rhyme Time Bingo for follow-up games. 11. With about three minutes left in class, ask students to quit applications (Cmd+Q) and log out of their computers. 12. Select two students for outstanding behavior or work and take photos for posting in hallway.
 * Jan 30-Feb 3**
 * 1) Students enter & log in to computers and wait for directions to sit on the carpet in a group.
 * 2) Read two poems aloud – Jack Prelutsky – Penguins/I Used to be a Speedy Horse
 * 3) Discuss the idea of rhyming and point out the rhyming words at the end of each line – the kids will repeat the rhymes in unison.
 * 4) Consider a longer read-aloud as time/preference permits.
 * 5) As students return to their seats, repeat the rhyming word pairs aloud.
 * 6) Have each student navigate to the Hand-Out folder where they will find Rhyme2.pxi to drag to their desktops and open – double-click.
 * 7) Once all students have the file open, demonstrate the process of connecting the images at the two sides of the document – “match the rhyming pairs”. One can use the paint brush/pencil tool or the shapes tool to create lines that connect the pairs. Watch for the line thickness adjuster/slider – the lines can be too thick if the slider isn’t near the minimum.
 * 8) Have all students connect the rhyming pairs and add their names to the name field. Remind them to use upper-case letters for their names and the Undo tool for any mistakes.
 * 9) Circulate & check for completion and have all students save their files to their desktops. Repeat the process for rhyme3.pxi

100th Day Activity - Carrie 1. Have students come in and login on their computer. Once they are logged in have them join you on the carpet for a story. 2. Read the story 100th Day Worries by Margery Cuyler 3. Ask students to share their 100th day collections that they brought into school last week. 4. Tell them that today we are going to make a 100 collection using a new tool in Pixie called the Stamp. 5. Have students drag the Hundreds Day Template from the Hand Out Folder to their Desktop 6. Tell students to double click to open the template. 7. Demonstrate and model for the students how to select the Stamper Tool. 8. Using the Menu options have students select images for their collection. Before they begin to stamp they will need to adjust the size of their image using the slider. Their collection can include 100 of the same thing or 100 different things. Demonstrate for students that they do not need to drag the stamps out. They simply track out to the location and click to add the stamp once it is selected. 9. Save and Print the collections. 10. Have sudents logout and clean up. 11. Select a SpecTECHular Student and award a letter if earned.
 * Feb 6-10**

1. Have students come in and take their seats. 2. Call students to get their laptops and login. Once they are logged in have students sit at the front of the room for a special Valentine's Movie. 3. Show Students - [|Holiday Facts and Fun video] 4. Have students return to their seats and wake up their computers. 5. Have students download the and the [|Valentine's Links] (to get the link with the cute candy heart icon, take out of Carrie's Hand Out Folder) to their desktop. 6. Have students double click to open the Valentine's Candy Sort. Using the Caps Lock Key have them type their name with a correct capital letters. Have students sort their Valentine Candy into different boxes based on color. Show students how to use the Dropper tool to select the heart color and then the Fill Bucket to fill in the box with the same color. 7. When students are finished, they should save and print their work. 8. If time remains they can select a Valentine's game to play from the Valentine's Link file. 9. Have students logout and clean up. 10. Select a SpecTECHular Student and aware a letter if earned.
 * Feb 13-17**

1.Have students come in and take their seats. 2. Pass out login cards and have students login. Once they are logged in have students sit at the front of the room for a special President's Movie. 3. Show students [|George Washington Brain Pop Jr. Movie]. 4. Have students return to their seat and drag the President's Day Kidspiration File to their desktop. 5. Have students add their names to the document and then sort the pictures that go with George Washington. 6. Call students back to the carpet to watch the [|Abraham Lincoln Brain Pop Jr. Movie]. 7. Have students return to their seats and sort the pictures that go with Abraham Licoln. 8. Check work together with students. 9. Have students save and print their work. 10. If time remains students can play a game quietly. 11. Have students logout and clean up. 12. Select a SpecTECHular Student and a award a letter if earned.
 * Feb 20-24**

1. Have students enter and login in on their laptops. 2. After students are logged in have them drag the Teeth Folder to their desktop. 3. Call students up to the front of the room. 4. Show students BrainPop Jr. Video on [|Caring for Teeth]. 5. You can play the BrainPop Game when the video is over to review Health and Unhealthy foods for teeth. 6. Dismiss students to their seats. 7. Have them open their Teeth Folder and then open the Pixie Document Healthy Teeth. 8. Complete the activity with them using the different tools in Pixie. Sample Below. 9. Students should save and print their work when finished. 10. If time remains students can explore the Plaque Attack Game in the Teeth Folder. 11. Have students logout and clean up. 12. Select a SpecTECHular Student and a award a letter if earned.
 * Feb 27-Mar 2**
 * Dental Health**

3. When the video is over ask students if they can tell you what they learned from the video. 4. Make the connection from the video to the term Personal Narrative. A personal narrative is where you write about something that happened to you in your life. 5. Open the Favorite Part of K Inspiration Organizer. 6. Tell students that over the next few weeks we are going to use Pixie to create a personal narrative about their favorite part of Kindergarten. 7. The first step in the writing process is to brainstorm our ideas. Ask student so share with you some things that are their favorite from Kindergarten. Web ideas. Try to use an image from the image library to connect words with text for students. 8. After you have brainstormed. Have the students pick their favorite part of K and record on their paper at their seats using pencils. 9. Next call tables to come get their laptops off the cart. Have students take them to their seats and then get logged in. Once they are logged in have them go back up to the front carpet for the next set of directions. 10. Show students Pixie template and go over directions. Allow students time to draw an illustration of their favorite part of Kindergarten. Remind them that they will need to be included in the illustration somewhere. (For now have students illustrate themselves. We will add image over their illustration later in the process) 11. Have students save their work. 12. Students should log out of the computer. 13. Have students logout and clean up. 14. Select a SpecTECHular Student and a award a letter if earned.
 * Mar 5-9**
 * 1. Have students come in and come up to the front carpet.**
 * 2. Watch a Brain Pop Video about [|Writing About Yourself.]**


 * Mar 12-16**

Ask students what they know about seasons and the changes from one to another. The first day of Spring (vernal equinox) is in March and the lesson focuses on using your senses OTHER THAN sight to detect the change in season.
 * Mar 19-23**
 * Spring Senses - Kindergarten**

> Finish Recordings/Share as Movie/Hand In/Compile to create class movie
 * 1) Show the brainPop, Jr. video: []
 * 2) Consider Peep and Quack’s DE Streaming video about Spring: []
 * 3) Discuss and answer questions, as needed
 * 4) Brainstorm some signs of Spring that can be sensed by smell, sound, or feel – consider webbing the words in Inspiration or writing them on the board for all to see and refer to later. (see step 6 below)
 * 5) Have students copy the Pixie or Kidspiration file springsort (.pxi or .kid)
 * 6) Remind students that they can browse or search for items to place in the smell, feel, hear columns. Be ready to write a few key items on the board like flower, grass, wind, bird, sun, tree, cricket, insect, rabbit, squirrel, etc.
 * 7) Allow students time to locate and place at least three things in each column and circulate to assist where needed.
 * 8) Have students save their work and direct them to the Spring flower puzzles: []
 * 9) Ask all students to quit applications and log out. ID a SpecTechular student, photo, and line ‘em up. Happy Spring!
 * Mar 26-30**


 * Counting by Tens**
 * 1) Start with Brainpop, Jr. video but be ready to stop & start as needed – this is entitled “Adding & Subtracting Tens” and only parts should be shown for the lesson.
 * 2) Have the students skip-count with you as you pause the video in the beginning, making certain that the class has some background with skip-counting.
 * 3) Return the students to their seats and ask them to navigate to your Hand-Out folder and click on the hyperlink to: []
 * 4) Once there, show the students the columns for the ones and tens blocks and have them all reduce the number of columns to 2, ones and tens. Demonstrate the process of clicking the Next Problem button, finding the blue number and adding ones and tens to make the black number match the blue number. Students can drag unwanted blocks to the trashcan icon or click the reset button to remove all blocks. Allow students 5-109 minutes for this activity and consider challenging some students by increasing the number of columns to 3, with hundreds blocks.
 * 5) Once everyone has completed several rounds, ask students to navigate again to your Hand-Out folder and drag the Kidspiration activity file “counting by tens.kia” to their desktops. To ensure that Kidspiration launches and opens the file, drag the file icon to the Kidspiration icon in the dock – occasionally, Inspiration will launch and try open the file instead.
 * 6) Have students add their names first and demonstrate the process of completing the document and adding their own number to the last box. Have them highlight all the words in the blue box and replace them with a number ending in zero. Also remind them that they must represent the numbers with both tens and ones blocks.
 * 7) Once complete, have students save and print their work. As time permits, allow students to follow one or both hyperlinks:[| http://www.learningbox.com/Base10/BaseTen.html] and/or[| http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers_v2.html]
 * 8) Select a SpecTechular student, have all students log out and line up.

Earth Day - First Week Back from Break. http://www.sesamestreet.org/playlist_player/-/pgpv/playlistplayer/0/1682/go_green_day

__Quarter 2 Lessons__
Nov 14-18 1. Have students login on their assigned computer and then join you on the front carpet for a movie. 2. Show [|Thanksgiving Brain Pop Jr. Movie.] 3. When the video is over play the interactive matching game using the Smart Board. Call students up to select cards to match. 4. Have students go back to their seats. 5. Demonstrate how to get today's work out of the teacher's hand out folder. Show students how to drag it to their desktop. 6. Then have students open their Turkey Pixie File. 7. Model how to type their name. 8. Model how to use the Fill Bucket Tool to paint the turkey. Remember to show them the Color Patterns as well as the other Menu options. 9. Allow student time to paint their turkey. 10. After about 10-15 minutes, ask students to stop and look at their turkey. Elicit from students adjectives that describe their turkey. Chart responses on Inspiration. 11. Model for students how to type their adjective in the text box at the top of the page. 12. Allow students time to type their adjective and finish coloring. Students should save their work when they finish. 13. If students finish early, print their work for them and have them to go to the Thanksgiving Games Links. 14. Have sudents logout and clean up. 15. Select a SpecTECHular Student and award a letter if earned.

Nov 21-22 (30 minute classes) 1. Have students come in and login on their computer. 2. Have the drag the Thanksgiving Color By Letter Pixie activity to their desktop. 3. Review how to use the fill bucket to paint. 4. Allow students time to use the fill bucket to complete the picture. 5. If students finish early they can go to the Thanksgiving Games from the previous week. 6. Have students logout and clean up. 7. Select a SpecTECHular Student and award a letter if earned.

Nov 28-Dec 2 1. Have students come in and log in on their computers. Once they are logged in, have them sit on the front carpet to watch a movie about maps. 2. Show Students the Making a Map segment: [] 3. Model for students how to drag the Kidspiration Activity to their desktop. 4. To open the students may have to drag the file to the Kidspiration Symbol on the dock. 5. Demonstrate how to use the Student Name button to add their name to the document. 6. Show students how to use the listen tool so that they can listen to items. 7. Work together with students to create a map of our CES neighborhood. 8. Have students save and print their work when they finish. 9. If time, students can explore and build their own neighborhood on: [] 10. Review with students how to Quit and Log Out of their computers. 11. Select a SpecTECHular Student. 12. Award a letter if earned.

Dec 5- 9 1. Have students login on their computers. After they login, have them sit on the carpet. 2. Show students: [] Do the Interactive Game on the Smart Board when the video finishes. You can also do the following interactive as well with students. [] Review the Cardinal Directions with students. 3. Review how to download the Kidspiration File to the student desktop. 4. Demonstrate how to use the Student Name button to add their name to the document. 5. Remind students that they can use the Listen Tool to find out the names of objects. 6. Print the directions activity and read each direction to the class. Give time to perform the action independently. Check work together as a class. 7. Have students save and print their work. 8. Students should quit and log out. 9. Select a SpecTECHular Student. 10. Award a letter if earned.

Dec 12-16 1. Have students login on their computers. After they login, have them sit on the carpet. 2. Show the Video: [] Using the Smart Board complete the game with students sorting items they saw in the video into the correct holiday. 3. Review how to get to the Hand Out Folder. Tell students that they will need to pick 1 Winter holiday that they celebrate and drag the file for that holiday to their desktop. 4. Have students open the file they selected. 5. Go over the directions with the student. Review the Fill, Paint, and Undo options. 6. Demonstrate how to add your name to the page. 7. Allow students time to work. 8. Have students save their work. 9. Students should quit and log out. 10. Select a SpecTECHular Student. 11. Award a letter if earned.

Dec 19-23 1. Have students login on their computers. After they login, have them sit on the carpet. 2. Review with students the 4 Winter Holidays you talked about the previous week. 3. Tell students that today they finish their illustrations and then we will print them all. 4. If students are done they will be able to play holiday games. Go over with students the holiday games available. (add link) 5. Dismiss students to their seats to finish their picture and/or play Holiday Games. 6. Before class ends have all students open their holiday picture from last week and print. 7. Students should quit and log out. 8. Select a SpecTECHular Student. 9. Award a letter if earned.

Jan 2-6 1. Have students come in and sit down. 2. Tell students to use their card to login and then come up to the carpet to watch a video. 3. Pull up the [|Peep and Quack - Quack's Tracks] video. It will come up to the Title Screen. Ask students to make predictions about the video using the Title and small illustration provided on the Title Screen. Then show video. Discuss what happened in the video when the video finishes. 4. Ask students to return to their seats. Tell students to open a blank Pixie document by clicking the paintbrush on their dock. 5. Tell students to close their eyes and imagine that they just woke up from a long night of sleep. They come out to their living room and look out the window and Oh My Goodness It has snowed. There is a fresh blanket of snow on the ground covering EVERYTHING. Now tell students to open their eyes. Show them how the blank Pixie screen is like that blanket of snow. Tell them that today they are going to make Tracks like Quack using Pixie. 6. Demonstrate how to add a text box so students can enter their name. 7. Then demonstrate how to turn on the Roller Tool and how to draw tracks. This tool works by clicking and dragging across the page. Many students will try to drag the images from the palette onto the page. Allow students time to create their tracks. Below is a sample. 8. Print tracks papers and allow students to take with them. 9. Have students close Tracks and they do not have to save them since it was just for fun. 10. Now have students drag the Winter Weather Folder out of the Hand Out Folder and onto their desktop. This folder has all Files for this week and the next few weeks. 11. Have students open the Kidspiration Document that is Green. WinterWeather.kid. 12. Discuss Winter and what it feels, looks, smells, sounds, and tastes like. Then have students complete the Venn Diagram by dragging the pictures to the correct circle. 13. When students finish, print and save their work. 14. Have students Quit and Logout. 15. Select a SpecTECHular Student. 16. Award a letter if earned.

Jan 9-13 [|Brain Pop Jr. Winter Video]

Jan 16-20

__Quarter 1 Lessons__
Aug 29-Sept. 2

Procedures Bathroom Field Trip Getting to Know the Laptop

Sept. 6-9

1. Have students come in and find their assigned seat and sit down. 2. Pass out paper keyboards with Username and Passwords. Pass out School boxes with Crayons for students. Have students color the keys that are needed. and practice typing their usernames and passwords using the paper keyboard. 3. Tell students that next they are going to do something very very special. They will be starting to use their laptops. Start by showing them [|Arthur's Computer Disaster.] 4. During the story, stop periodically, ask students what were some unsafe things they see. 5. Demonstrate how to carry a laptop and place it correctly on the table. 6. Call students one at a time over to get their laptop and take it to their seats. 7. Use the Intro to the MacBook Computer from the Tech Conference to go over parts of the computer. Have students point to the different parts as you talk about them. 8. If time: Have students practice typing their login on their laptop with the laptop turned off. 9. Collect worksheets from students to keep for the next week. Tell students that you will be sending a copy of it home with them so they can practice. Tell them to practice each night on their paper keyboard or on their family computer, if their parents say it's ok. 10. Choose a SpecTECHular Student. Take their photo. 11. Award a SpecTECHular Students letter if earned.

Sept. 12-16 1. Have students come in and sit in their assigned seats. 2. Pass out their paper keyboards with Usernames and Passwords. Have students practice typing their login and their password on their paper keyboard. 3. Call tables to get their assigned computer. 4. Demonstrate how to use their paper to help them login in on their computer. 5. Allow time for students to login on their computer. 6. Demonstrate the pop the bubble wrap game and how it is played. 7. As students login, go around and drag the three links below to their desktop. Have them begin by double clicking the bubble wrap link. 8. Allow students time to play Pop the Bubble Wrap. Give students challenges as they are working, have them create letters of their names in the popped bubbles, shapes, animals, beat a certain time limit. 9. If time, have students go to Space Typewriter and type in letters. 10. Demonstrate how to log off the computer. 11. Put laptops away if time. 12. Pick a SpecTECHular student and award a letter if earned. 13. Call students to line up.

Sept. 19-23 1. Have students come in and sit in their assigned seats. 2. Pass out their paper keyboards with Usernames and Passwords. Have students practice typing their login and their password on their paper keyboard. 3. Call tables to get their assigned computer. 4. Demonstrate how to use their paper to help them login in on their computer. 5. Allow time for students to login on their computer. 6. Demonstrate the SpaceTypewriter game and how it is played. 7. As students login, go around and drag the three links below to their desktop. Have them begin by double clicking the bubble wrap link. 8. Allow students time to play Space Typewriter. Give students challenges as they are working, have them create letters of their names in the popped bubbles, shapes, animals, beat a certain time limit. 9. Demonstrate how to log off the computer. 10. Put laptops away if time. 11. Pick a SpecTECHular student and award a letter if earned. 12. Call students to line up.

Sept 26-30 1. Have students come in and sit in their assigned seats. 2. Pass out their paper keyboards with Usernames and Passwords. Have students practice typing their login and their password on their paper keyboard. 3. Call tables to get their assigned computer. 4. Demonstrate how to use their paper to help them login in on their computer. 5. Allow time for students to login on their computer. 6. Tell students that today we will take a field trip to get some more Computer Activities. 7. Demonstrate how to visit the Hand Out Folder, Click on the teacher, and Click on Open in Finder. Next demonstrate how to double click their teachers icon. 8. Tell students that today they will drop and drag an item from the Teacher Hand Out Folder to their Desktop. Model how to drag the Track Pad Practice link from the Hand Out Folder to the Desktop. (Link found in Kindergarten Link Zipped folder from previous lesson.) 9. Instruct students to double click and open the Simply Box with activities for students to select from. Demonstrate how to open webpages and change webpages when they want to choose a different game. 10. Allow students time to play. 11. Demonstrate how to log off the computer. 12. Put laptops away if time. 13. Pick a SpecTECHular student and award a letter if earned. 14. Call students to line up.

Oct 3-7 1. Have students come in and sit in their assigned seats. 2. Ask them if they can tell you what the word Art means. Chart using Kidspiration. Then ask them does the meaning of art change if you add the word digital in front of it. Discuss what digital art is. 3. Show students the Video on Color from Brain Pop Jr. 4. Pass out student logins and computers to students. 5. Review login procedures to students. 6. Allow students time to login. When they get logged in they can play one of the games on their desktop. Circulate and assist students who are struggling with logging in. 7. Take students on a field trip to the Hand Out folder to get the websites for today. Have students drag the art websites folder to their desktop. Demo each of the three websites they can select from. 8. Allow students time to explore and create artwork using the websites. Consider printing 2 in color for the hallway. Have each student print one of their creations in black and white before the end of the class period. 9. Demonstrate how to log off the computer. 10. Put laptops away if time. 11. Pick a SpecTECHular student and award a letter if earned. 12. Call students to line up.

1. Have students come in and sit in their assigned seats. 2. Ask them if they can tell you what the word Art means. Chart using Kidspiration. Then ask them does the meaning of art change if you add the word digital in front of it. Discuss what digital art is. You may need to have the students 'on the rug' or in a central location for viewing the video. 3. Show students the Video on Parts of a Computer from Brain Pop Jr. (http://www.brainpopjr.com/artsandtechnology/technology/partsofacomputer/) - pause when they discuss input and output and review what's said. you may need to have the students 'on the rug' or in a central location for viewing the video. 4. Conduct the BrainPop Jr. GAME directly beneath the video on the Web page and ask students to select an object and tell you whether it's an input or output device. 5. Ask students to return to their seats 6. Pass out student logins and computers to students. 7. Review login procedures to students. 8. Allow students time to login. When they get logged in they can play one of the games on their desktop. Circulate and assist students who are struggling with logging in. 9. Take students on a field trip to the Hand Out folder to get the websites for today. Have students drag the art websites folder to their desktop. Demo each of the three websites they can select from - start with the Jackson Pollock site, where one input device, the mouse, and one output device, the monitor, are used. 10. Allow students time to create a great piece in the Pollock style. Consider printing 2 in color for the hallway. 11. Move on to the sand art site, where more works of art are created, this time using two input devices, the mouse and the keyboard - and two output devices, the monitor and the speakers, are used. Look for two more exemplars for color printing. If time allows, have all students stand, push in chairs, and, without touching computers, walk carefully around the room to see what other students and their imaginations, did with the very same tools as one another - the magic of art. 12. As time permits, have the students visit the final Web site, Crayola's Digi-color, and use any of the tools on the page. Only one input device, the mouse is used on this site but there is a print button on the page. Allow all students to print one image from the Crayola site in b&w for returning to class. Remind the students that the printer was used by all and ask the class if it was an input or an output device - "OUTPUT!" 13. Demonstrate how to log off the computer. 14. Put laptops away if time. 15. Pick a SpecTECHular student and award a letter if earned. 16. Call students to line up.

Pumpkins - Patterns & Carving http://simplybox.com/public/?id=170774

Oct 31 - Nov 4

Before class: Write each letter of the alphabet on a post it and stick on the white board.

__**Motivation**__ Using the Smart Board, [|play concentration with students]. Students will match the upper case alphabet letter with the lower case alphabet letter.

1. Show students the movie [|Chicka Chicka Boom Boom] to students from DE Streaming. You can give the students the [|online quiz] after the video to review if you would like. 2. Discuss with students some of the actions of the alphabet letters in the movie. Tell students that these words are action words or verbs. 3. Tell students that today they will create a digital image that shows an alphabet letter performing an action as they travel up the coconut tree. 4. Assign students an alphabet letter. Have them take that post-it from the board and place it at their table. 5. Get out laptops. Students will login. 6. Get template out of Hand Out folder and place on desktop or in TECH folder. 7. Open Template. 8. Have students use stickers to add their alphabet letter to the template. 9. Demonstrate how to use the rotate tool to rotate their letter so it appears to be going up the tree 10. Read the verb choices for students. Have them choose a verb and drag it over to complete the sentence. 11. Have students delete the other verbs that are not used. 12. Tell students to use their drawing tools like the paintbrush to add details to their letter and illustration. 13. Students should Save and Print their work. 14. Quit out of Pixie and Logout 15. Select a SpecTechular student.

Nov. 7-11 Sorting foods by alphabet letter
 * 1) Have students log in to each computer
 * 2) Show Brainpop Jr. video on upper and lower case letters: http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/sentence/capitalandlowercase/ - stop & discuss as needed
 * 3) Direct students to hand-out folder for .pxi file -[[file:alphabetfoodsorting.pxi]]and [[file:alphabetfoodsorting2.pxi]]
 * 4) The first file has one food item, hamburger, already placed in the appropriate box. Point out that the boxes are lebeled with upper-case letters and the foods are labeled with lower-case letters - have students match 'em and place all food items into the appropriate boxes.
 * 5) Once all food items are placed, ask all students to draw their first names, using an upper-case letter to start, using the paint brush/pencil tool.
 * 6) Demonstrate the use of the shift key to produce upper-case letters - discourage the use of CapsLock!
 * 7) Ask students to type in their first names using an Upper-Case letter to begin and lower-case for the rest.
 * 8) Have all students save their files to their network folders.
 * 9) Identify one or two for color printing and the rest for b&w printing.
 * 10) Have all students log out, line up, and select two outstanding students for photos or spotlights.