Kindergarten
2016-17
June 9th:
June 9th:
- Go to Code Studio, sign in, and complete through Bee Sequence
- ABCMouse
June 7th:
June 7th:
- Whole Class:
- Review Algorithm and Program
- What do you know about bees? Introduction to Bee Sequence
- Go to Code Studio , sign in, and complete through Bee Sequence
June 2nd:
June 2nd:
- Go to Code Studio , sign in, and complete through Maze Debugging
- ABCMouse - Learning Path
May 31st:
May 31st:
- Whole Class:
- What is this word and what does it mean?
- What did you do to get ready for school today?
- What steps do we need to do to plant a seed ?
- How to complete slides 15-17
- Go to Google Classroom and complete assignment 008 Real Life Algorithms (Slides 15-17 in Kindergarten Code.org Course 1)
- Go to Code Studio , sign in, and complete through Maze Debugging
- ABCMouse - Learning Path
May 26th:
May 26th:
- Whole Class:
- Review Algorithm and Program
- Review how to sign in to Code Studio
- Show where to stop in Code Studio and how to complete through Maze Debugging
- Go to Code Studio , sign in, and complete through Maze Debugging
May 24th:
May 24th:
- Whole Class:
- What was the word we learned last time?
- Learn a new word: Program
- Reminder on completing Move the Flurbs
- How to sign in and complete levels in Code Studio
- Go to Google Classroom and complete assignment 007 Move It, Move It! (Slides 8-13 in Kindergarten Code.org Course 1)
- Go to Code Studio , sign in, and complete through Maze Sequence
May 19th:
May 19th:
- Whole Class: What was the word we learned last time?
- ABCMouse - Learning Path
May 17th:
May 17th:
- Whole Class: Happy Maps
- Learn a new word: Algorithm
- Can you give me instructions to get to the board?
- Can you give me instructions to draw a smiley face?
- Meet the Flurbs
- What did we learn?
- What does the new word that we learned mean?
- Breaking something into exactly two pieces
- A list of steps that you can follow to finish a task
- The plastic coating on the end of a shoelace
- What word did we learn?
- How to complete Happy Maps
- Go to Google Classroom and complete assignment 006 Happy Maps (Slides 3-7 in Kindergarten Code.org Course 1)
- Complete Happy Maps Online Activity
May 12th:
May 12th:
- Whole Class: Watch Butterfly Life Cycle videos
- ABCMouse - Learning Path
May 10th:
May 10th:
- Whole Class: How to record in ScratchJr & how to create speech bubbles in ScratchJr
- Finish Butterfly Life Cycle animations in ScratchJr
May 3rd & 5th:
May 3rd & 5th:
- Whole Class: Review in ScratchJr
- How to make characters move
- How to make characters change size
- How to switch scenes
- Work on Butterfly Life Cycle ScratchJr projects
April 26th & 28th:
April 26th & 28th:
- Whole Class:
- Review Butterfly Life Cycle (or video)
- Review how to draw characters in ScratchJr
- Review how to record in ScratchJr
- Work on Butterfly Life Cycle ScratchJr projects
- ABCMouse - Learning Path
April 7th:
April 7th:
- Whole Class:
- Read Holidays: Easter
- Tux Paint: How to draw shapes, where to find grass
- Draw an Easter egg picture in Tux Paint
April 5th:
April 5th:
- Whole Class:
- Complete the Butterfly Life Cycle Activities
- How to draw characters in ScratchJr
- Draw Butterfly Life Cycle characters in ScratchJr
March 29th & 31st:
March 29th & 31st:
- Whole Class:
- Introduction to ScratchJr
- Introduction to Driving program
- Make your vehicle drive across the scene
March 22nd:
March 22nd:
- ABCMouse - Learning Path
February 24th - March 15th:
February 24th - March 15th:
February 22nd:
February 22nd:
- Whole Class: Bugs & Debugging
- What is a bug?
- What is debugging?
- Why is debugging important when coding?
- When does a programmer debug their code?
- How does a programmer debug their code?
- Complete Who Has the Correct Code?
- Continue in Kodable
February 16th:
February 16th:
- Whole Class:
- Let's meet the fuzzFamily
- Introduction to Sequence and Algorithms
- 1,2,3 Roll in Kodable
February 15th:
February 15th:
- Whole Class: Teach Your Monster to Read posters
- Done? ABCMouse - Learning Path
February 3rd & 8th:
February 3rd & 8th:
- Whole Class: How to complete your Teach Your Monster to Read poster
- Go to Google Classroom and complete assignment 005
- Done? ABCMouse - Learning Path
January 4th - February 1st:
January 4th - February 1st:
- Whole Class: Introduction to Teach Your Monster to Read
- Done? ABCMouse - Learning Path
December 14th:
December 14th:
- Whole Class: Introduction to Binary
- Make Binary Ornaments
- Christmas Games
December 9th:
December 9th:
- Finish Cubetto's First Day
- Work with Cubetto OR Robot Mouse
December 7th:
December 7th:
- Whole Class: What is a Robot?
- Whole Class: Introduction to Cubetto
- Cubetto's First Day
November 30th:
November 30th:
- Whole Class: Look at thankful pictures
- Whole Class: Watch The Gingerbread Baby
- Decorate a Gingerbread Cookie in Tux Paint
November 18th:
November 18th:
- Complete your thankful picture in Tux Paint
- Go to Google Classroom and add your picture to Our Thankful Book
- Done? Thanksgiving Games:
November 16th:
November 16th:
- Whole Class: Review Leaves on My Tree Graphs
- Who had the most of each color leaves
- Who had the least of each color leaves
- Whole Class: The Thankful Book
- Draw what you are thankful for in Tux Paint
November 9th:
November 9th:
- Whole Class: Introduction to Leaves on My Tree
- How to open the picture and add leaves to the tree
- How to create the graph
- How to enter the number
- Go to Google Classroom and work on assignment 003 Leaves on My Tree
November 4th:
November 4th:
- Whole Class: Review how a tree grows and why leaves change color
- Whole Class: Review on drawing an autumn tree
- Finish drawing Autumn Tree in Tux Paint
- Do one of more of the following, when you are done:
November 2nd:
November 2nd:
- Whole Class: Why do leaves change color?
- Whole Class: Be a Tree
- Whole Class: Introduction to Tux Paint & how to draw a tree in Tux Paint
- Draw an Autumn Tree in Tux Paint
October 28th:
October 28th:
- Whole Class: Reminders on how to draw with shape tools in Google Slides/Google Drawings
- Go to Google Classroom and open 002 Jack-o-Lanterns. Use shape tools to "draw" a Jack-o-Lantern. Mark as Done when finished.
- Halloween Games:
October 26th:
October 26th:
- Whole Class: What is your favorite type of costume? For 2nd Grade survey
- Whole Class: How to draw with shape tools in Google Slides/Google Drawings
- Go to Google Classroom and open 002 Jack-o-Lanterns. Use shape tools to "draw" a Jack-o-Lantern
October 21st:
October 21st:
- Talk about/see photos from Spaghetti/Marshmallow Challenge
October 19th:
October 19th:
October 14th:
October 14th:
- Practice signing in and out of Google Classroom
- Starfall ABCs
- My First Clicks
- Fuzz Bugs Patterns
October 12th:
October 12th:
- Go to Google Classroom and open 001 My Pumpkin Book. Complete Pumpkin Glyph slide together.
October 7th:
October 7th:
- Whole Class:
- Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Video
- Role Play Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
- How to edit your Pumpkin "Book"
- Go to Google Classroom and open 001 My Pumpkin Book. Work on slides.
October 5th:
October 5th:
- Whole Class: Read the book "Pumpkins in Fall"
- Whole Class: Hints on drawing a Jack-o-Lantern in Tux Paint
- Draw a Jack-o-Lantern in Tux Paint
September 28th & 30th:
September 28th & 30th:
- Whole Class: Computer, What Do You See?
- Whole Class: Reminder on how to use My First Clicks
September 23rd:
September 23rd:
- Whole Class: Introduction to My First Clicks
- Whole Class: Reminders on how to use Tux Paint to create your self-portrait
- Finish your self-portrait in Tux Paint, if not done
- My First Clicks
September 21st:
September 21st:
- Whole Class: How to draw a portrait in Tux Paint
- Draw a self-portrait in Tux Paint
September 16th:
September 16th:
- Whole Class: How to use Quiver App
- Sign your dots!
- Make your dots 3D with Quiver App
- Dot Games:
September 14th:
September 14th:
- Whole Class: International Dot Day
- Listen to Peter H. Reynolds read his book The Dot
- Talk about The Dot
- What can you draw with just a dot? Ready, Set, Drawish
- Whole Class: Tools to use in Tux Paint - Paintbrush, Fill Bucket
- Draw your Dot picture
September 9th:
September 9th:
- Whole Class: Review how to hold and use a mouse
- Mouse Practice
September 7th:
September 7th:
- Whole Class:
- Review Class Rules
- Demonstrate and practice how to hold a mouse and move & click it
- Assign Seats & show how to use headphones
- Practice Using the Mouse in Tux Paint