PreK+Lessons

=2012 - 2013 Lessons =

This is a collection of lessons and resources that have been used with our prekindergarten students during their technology rotation. In addition, projects will be added as they occur.

Trimester 1
**Rotation 1: August 24 - September 3** Goal: Students will become familiar with the teachers and the procedures in the lab. Students will be able to use the proper vocabulary for simple parts of the computer. Students will use the mouse to click while practicing their colors. Introduction to the Lab: Teachers, Procedures, Parts of a Computer -- **Keynote** Using your mouse to click, double-click and drag Color activity - [|Bloople's Colors] - students can do many activities on this site which are listed below the first activity. [|Dragging Colors] [|Number Game]

**Rotation 2: September 4 - 12** Goal: Students will review lab procedures and parts of computer. Students will use the mouse to drag items. Activity: Use blog resource page to navigate to the following sites to practice dragging: [|Build a House] [|Make a Face] [|Monster Maker] [|Match the Leaves] [|Fishin' Mission] [|Hide n' Seek]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Rotation 2 -- could be Brainpop Jr. Welcome to kindergarten/matching game and then one of the above activities.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 3: September 13 - 21** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Brainpop Jr. Plane Shapes movie <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Purpy's Shapes] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Harcourt Plane Shapes] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Build a Sandcastle]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Shapes **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 4: September 22 - October 9** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Tumblebooks Red is a Dragon <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Play Sorting Games/Colors <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Help Oscar Sort Trash] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Help Elmo Sort Laundry] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Flo and Zo Sort it Out] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Olivia Sorts Toys]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Colors, sorting **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 5: October 10 - October 18** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Halloween Tumblebooks: Monster Book <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Starfall Pumpkin Story] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Halloween Coloring] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Pirate Puzzle] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Make a Pumpkin]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 6: October 19 - October 29** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Letter Recognition/Phonemic Awareness with Sesame Street Characters <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Perhaps start with a Sesame Street video to meet the characters <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tumblebooks: ABC Letters in the Library <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Learn Your Letters with Big Bird] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Select the Letter with Cookie Monster] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Cookie Monsters Letter of the Day] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Big Bird's Beginning Letters] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Making Letter Soup with Cookie Monster] Elmo - Find the first letter <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Alphabet Bingo]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 7: October 30 - November 7** Letters and Sounds [|Big Bird Beginning Letter] [|Alphabet Match] [|Beginning Letter Match] [|Letter Sounds] [|Cookie Monster Find the Letter] [|Alphabet Bingo] [|Sight Word Match]

Trimester 2

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 8: November 8 - 19** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thanksgiving <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Dora and the Thankful Troll] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Color the Turkey] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Color the Pilgrims] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Dress the Turkey] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Thanksgiving Day Matching]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 9 : November 20 - 29** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Holidays and Traditions <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Brainpop Jr. Winter Holidays and Game <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Hanukkah Puzzle] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Spot the Differences]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 10: November 30 to December 10** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Christmas <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Twas the Night Before Christmas - Tumblebooks <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">suessville.com -- How the Grinch saved christmas [|Snowman Story] [|Coloring Book] [|Trim a Tree] [|Build a Snowman] [|Swap Puzzles] [|Matching Game]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 11: January 4 - 10** [|Fun with Elmo]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 13: January 11 - 19** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chinese New Year <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Red Envelope] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Lantern] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Counting Koi] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Picture Games] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Coloring Fun]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 14: January 30 - February 6** Happy Birthday, Clifford! [|Which Clifford?] (big and small) [|Kiss from Clifford] (matching colors and patterns) [|Sliding with Clifford] (matching colors and patterns) [|Make a Float] (help Clifford make a float for a parade) [|Puppy Puzzles] (help put simple puzzles together) [|Measuring Up] (identify items based on measuring words) [|Puppy Letters] [|Clifford Hide and Seek]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 15: February 7 - 15** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Valentine's Day/100 Days <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Starfall 100th Day of School] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|100 Snowballs] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Counting to 100] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Valentine's Day Coloring] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Valentine's Day Puzzle]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rotation 16: February 16 - 28** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Patterns <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Watch Brainpop Jr. Video on Patterns and do activity <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kidpix -- finish existing patterns and create your own.

More Patterns [|PBS Pattern Matcher] [|What Comes Next?] [|Copy the Pattern] String of Beads [|Butterfly Colors] Color the Butterfly
 * Rotation 17: February 29 - March 8**

Trimester 3
To add: Add for graphing unit

[|Count the Ducks] [|Pop the Balloons] [|Count the Animals] [|Counting Game] [|Count the Bananas] [|Count the Ants]
 * Rotation 18: March 9 - March 15**
 * Identifying Numbers**
 * TumbleBooks - One Duck Stuck**

[|Starfall Easter Word Hunt] [|Easter Egg Hunt] [|Decorate Eggs] [|Easter Coloring] [|Egg Coloring]
 * Rotation 19: March 16 - 26**
 * Easter**


 * Rotation 20: April 9 - 13**

Letters and Sounds [|Starfall ABC Song] [|Alphabet Match] [|Color and Alphabet Match] [|Beginning Letter Match] [|Letter Tracing]
 * Rotation 21: April 16 - 24**

Mother's Day Cards - Part 1 Students create pictures for their mothers using Kidpix. Save as jpg to the shared folder
 * Rotation 22: April 25 - May 7**

Mother's Day Cards - Part 2 Take pictures of kids using photobooth and add to Mother's Day card template Kids work on any site from blog while we are working with individual students. Classroom teacher and TA's take pictures in Photobooth. Tech teacher and TA add all images to template, save, and print.
 * Rotation 23: May 8 - 16**


 * Rotation 24: May 17 - 25**
 * Math Activities**
 * [|Number Recognition 1 - 10] **
 * [|Counting to 10] **
 * [|Shape Recognition] **
 * [|Match Shape] **
 * [|Color by Number] **
 * [|Pattern Match] **
 * [|Number Series] **
 * [|How Many] **
 * [|Missing Number] **

Navigating [|Tumblebooks]
 * Rotation 25: May 26 - June 5**

Free Exploration of Links from Blog
 * Rotation 26: June 6 to EOY**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Other ideas: Tumblebooks - Boomer Goes to School, ABC Letters in the Library, The Biggest Job of All (Careers), Duck Rabbit (Easter), I.Q. It's Time (Time), One is a Drummer (counting), Ook the Book (rhyming), A Penguin Story (colors), A Pocketful of Kisses (nervous about going to school), A Prickly Love Story (friendship), Round is a Mooncake (shapes)

Ideas:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends, school, houses, all about me (body parts, faces)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Elmo's Classroom - Have fun at school - sesame street web site

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brainpop Jr. - types of homes w/activity on their own computer

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">KidPix - color a room in the house - show the rooms and what is in the rooms (this was kind of hard)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dora's house activity from Nick Jr. would be good also.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friendship - Tumblebooks "Always"