Kindergarten

=Library Use and Care=
 * Dewey Decimal
 * Alphabetizing - A-H 1st Q. I-R 2nd Q, S-Z 3rd Q.
 * Catalog search
 * Book Care
 * 1) I took my Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel
 * Reference Resources

=Reading= Pig Pen-Up -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 71 Pig, Pig -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 71 Where's the Bacon? -- Learning About Books & Libraries: a Gold Mine of Games, p. 72


 * Award winners

=Research=
 * Catalog search
 * Encyclopedia
 * Databases
 * Search engines
 * Bibliography
 * Copyright

=Technology Skills=
 * Vocabulary
 * Proper use of equipment
 * Keyboarding
 * Multimedia presentation

=Internet= =Preparation for 1st Quarter= Alliteration -- Find out what letter they are doing each day/week and read an alliterative book. =First Quarter= First Week (Sept. 6-9)
 * Safety
 * Program use
 * Navigation
 * 1) Activity: Seat students on floor then tell them which number they sit on and have them sit in the story center. Practice sitting and standing as a group then practice sitting and standing as a row. Lead rows over by tables and have them sit on floor again. Tell each student whether they will be painting a stick or coloring a paper. As students are done with their stick they can work on coloring a paper.
 * 2) Paint sticks - Only students who have not already done so and only when there is another adult in the room. Color sticks with permanent marker. Students not painting sticks will have a selection of pages to color from Humpty Dumpty coloring page
 * 3) Nursery Rhymes: Do the nursery rhymes that are represented in the pictures and students can figure out which ones their pictures go with.

There was not enough time for the following so they were moved to the 2nd week
 * 1) **Reading: __I Took My Frog to the Library__ by Eric A Kimmel. Make predictions (what is she going to take to the library next?) Look at clues in illustrations**
 * 2) **Library vocabulary: Discuss the difference between borrowing, buying, renting, etc.**

Second Week (Sept. 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Read __I Took My Frog to the Library__ by Eric A Kimmel. Make predictions (what is she going to take to the library next?) Look at clues in illustrations Frog coloring sheet. Practice standing, sitting, etc.
 * 2) Reading: __I Took My Frog to the Library__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: --
 * 4) Alphabet: Seating chart in alphabet order
 * 5) Discuss classroom rules and how they apply in the library.
 * 6) Friday: No class.

Third Week (Sept. 19-23) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Discuss the difference between borrowing, buying, renting, etc. Model looking at a book. Show damaged books and discuss ways to take care of books
 * 2) Reading: __What Happened to Marion's Book__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Check out from tables
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wemberly Worried__ Check out from tables. Wemberly Worried coloring sheets.

Fourth Week (Sept. 26-30) Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Think of words that start with A. Roll out paper towel alligator to show how long they can get.
 * 2) Reading: Read __There's an Alligator Under My Bed__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Letter A. Talk about each fancy letter on the white board
 * 5) Check out from tables
 * 6) Friday: Read __Wemberly Worried__ Check out from tables. Wemberly Worried coloring sheets.

Fifth Week (Oct.3-7) -- Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Think of words that start with B
 * 2) Reading: __King Bidgood's in the Bathtub__ by Audrey Wood
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Letter B Talk about each fancy letter on the white board
 * 5) Check out from tables
 * 6) No Friday class

Sixth Week (Oct. 10-14) - Testing --
 * 1) Activity: Think of words that start with C
 * 2) Reading: __Clara Caterpillar__ by Pamela Duncan Edwards
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Letter C Talk about each fancy letter on the white board
 * 5) Check out from tables
 * 6) Friday: Using document camera, read __The Shelf Elf__ up to the page where the books are not shelved correctly. Students come up to board to point out mistakes or funny things on the shelf. Check out from tables.


 * CONFERENCES**

Seventh Week (Oct. 24-28)
 * 1) Activity: Talk about the letter D
 * 2) Reading: Read: __Officer Buckle and Gloria__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Find alphabet cards in the Everybody books
 * 5) Check out from tables
 * 6) Friday: Using document camera, read __The Shelf Elf__ up to the page where the books are not shelved correctly. Students come up to board to point out mistakes or funny things on the shelf. Check out from the Everybody books.

Eighth Week (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4)
 * 1) Activity: Ask what words start with E
 * 2) Reading: Read __The Saggy Baggy Elephant__ (Goes along well with anti-bullying as well)
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: D week Talk about each fancy letter on the white board
 * 5) Check out from tables
 * 6) Friday: Using document camera, read __The Shelf Elf__ up to the page where the books are not shelved correctly. Students come up to board to point out mistakes or funny things on the shelf. Check out from the Everybody books

Ninth Week (Oct. 8-11)
 * 1) Activity: Learn how to use the clipboards.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Test on the alphabet. Students write as much of the alphabet as they can remember. Draw a picture on the back.
 * 5) Check out from tables
 * 6) No Friday class

=Second Quarter= First week (Nov. 28 - Dec. 2)
 * 1) Activity: Students learn that each book has an address. Practice using the browsing stick in the Everybody section
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Check out from Everybody books
 * 6) No Friday class

Second week (Dec. 5-9)
 * 1) Activity: Talk about the letter F
 * 2) Reading: Read __Fish Eyes__ by Ehlert
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme
 * 4) Alphabet: F week
 * 5) Check out from the Everybody books
 * 6) Friday: Finish reading __The Shelf Elf__ book

Third week (Dec. 12-16)
 * 1) Activity: Talk about the letter G.
 * 2) Reading: Show the Three Billy Goat Gruff books and read one. Tell students to //evaluate// the book.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:G week
 * 5) Check out from Everybody books
 * 6) Friday: Read __The Shelf Elf__

Fourth week (Dec. 19-23)
 * 1) Activity: Discuss the letter H
 * 2) Reading: Read __I Want My Hat Back__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:H week
 * 5) Check out from Everybody books
 * 6) Friday: Read __Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins__


 * Holiday Break**

Fifth week (Jan. 3-7)
 * 1) Activity:Talk about the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Check out from the nonfiction shelves starting with the 500s.
 * 2) Reading: The topics are Ice and Iguana. Compare fiction book about an ice cube to nonfiction books about iguanas.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: I week - Ice and Iguanas
 * 5) Check out from 500 and Everybody
 * 6) Friday: Same as during the week because of no class on Monday

Sixth week (Jan. 10-14)
 * 1) Activity: Show students where the 600s are.
 * 2) Reading: Show 2 jaguar books, one about the animal (500s) and one about the car (600s)
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: J week - Jump rope
 * 5) Check out from 500, 600 and Everybody books
 * 6) Friday: __Hello Red Fox__ by Eric Carle

Seventh week (Jan. 17-21) No class on Monday Testing?
 * 1) Activity: Show students where to find the 300s and 400s. Look at spines for first 3 letters of the author's last name.
 * 2) Reading: __The Three Little Kittens__ by Galdone
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: K week - Key
 * 5) Check out: 300, 400, 500, 600 and Everybody
 * 6) Friday: Same as the rest of the week because of lost day

Eighth week (Jan. 24-28) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Show students where the 000s, 100s, 200s are,
 * 2) Reading: __The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: One, Two, Three, Four, Five
 * 4) Alphabet: L week - Leaf
 * 5) Check out: 000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 and Everybody
 * 6) Friday: No library class on Friday

Ninth week (Jan. 31 - Feb. 4) Testing?
 * 1) Activity: Show students where the 700s are, including drawing books
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: M week - Moon
 * 5) Check out: 000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and Everybody
 * 6) Friday: Friday class needed to just do this week's lesson

Tenth week (Feb. 7-11) Only 2 classes. Wednesday is report card day
 * 1) Activity: Read aloud
 * 2) Reading: __Hello Red Fox__ for one class and __Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse__ for the other
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: week
 * 5) Check out 000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and Everybody
 * 6) No school on Friday

Still need to do author/illustrator roles Didn't do Computer vocabulary: Katie's Room [] This year's kindergarten classes will need to do this later in the year. =Third Quarter= Third QuarterObjectives: Nothing this quarter Students will read books in various genres Students will demonstrate the ability to log on to a computer. Students will use a mouse efficiently. Students will navigate to teacher selected websites.
 * Reference/research**
 * Reading**
 * Technology**

First Week (Feb. 27 - March 2) Short week
 * 1) Activity: New seating.
 * 2) Reading: __Hello Red Fox__ or __Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse__ depending on which one each class has heard
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Literacy Celebration

Second week: (March 5-9)
 * 1) Activity: Check out from 800s
 * 2) Reading: Read poetry
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: week N - Nest
 * 5) Checkout: 000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 and Everybody
 * 6) Friday: No Friday class

Third week: (March 12-16)
 * 1) Activity:Check out from 900s
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: O week - Ocean or Octopus
 * 5) Checkout: 000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and Everybody
 * 6) Friday: Keven Henkes -- __Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse__

Fourth week: (March 19-23)
 * 1) Activity: Check out the magazines.
 * 2) Reading: Magazines
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: P week - Penguin
 * 5) Checkout: 000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and Everybody and magazines
 * 6) Friday: Read books without words

Fifth week: (March 26-30)
 * 1) Activity: Show a video and show students where the videos are shelved.
 * 2) Reading: Find S on the keyboard. Find Ctrl-Alt-Delete on keyboard
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme: about queens (flipchart)?
 * 4) Alphabet: Q week - Quarter
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Read books without words

Sixth week: (April 2-3) Short week then conferences
 * 1) Activity: Read books without words.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites:.
 * 6) Friday: No school.

Seventh week: (April 9-13)
 * 1) Activity: Title page activities: Circle title. Hearts around author. Stars around illustrator. Square or box around publisher. Underline place of publication. Activities at the whiteboard about time.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: R week - Rain
 * 5) Websites: NO WEBSITES DURING MCA TESTING.
 * 6) Friday: Read __The Dot__. Let them draw a picture that starts with a dot.

Eighth week: (April 16-20) Testing?
 * 1) Activity: Explain how to put books on hold. Have 3 books on cart for them to put on hold. IN CLASSROOM
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: S week - Sun
 * 5) Websites: NO WEBSITES DURING MCA TESTING.
 * 6) Friday: Read __The Dot__. Let them draw a picture that starts with a dot.

Ninth week: (April 23-27) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Compare fiction and nonfiction turtle books__. __
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: T week - Turtle
 * 5) Websites: NO WEBSITES DURING MCA TESTING.
 * 6) Friday: No class

Tenth week: (April 30 - May 3) Testing Friday report card day = = =Don't forget:= Write usernames on cards. Other students play Alphabet Order game at whiteboard Show how to find Ctrl-alt-delete and show how to log in. Practice logging in. I opened up TuxPaint NO WEBSITES DURING MCA TESTING. What Time Is It?: [] Math Games: @http://www.apples4theteacher.com/clocks.html Time Travel: @http://www.abcya.com/telling_time.htm V week. Read __The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Vacation __
 * 1) Activity:
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: U week - Uniform and Umbrella
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: Report card day

Not on schedule yet: =Fourth Quarter= First week:(Tuesday, May 31-Friday June 3)
 * 1) Activity: Password. In order to use the computers you will need to know your password. Make labels with Name, Username, Password and stick on one side. On the other side student will write first name, username, password. It helps if there is someone else to read letters and numbers to student while they write.
 * 2) Reading: Using the document camera: Show __Pigs from A to Z__ by Arthur Geisert. Students will come up to the whiteboard one row at a time to look for the letters in the pictures. I'll mark over those letters with the pen. (Might have done this already?) while students come up to the table to write their password.
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: P week
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: Longer check out. Since this was P week read a fun book about pigs.
 * 1) Activity:Practice logging in and using the mouse. Practice double clicking on Tux Paint and make a picture.
 * 2) Reading: X week = Find the X on the keyboard
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: X week
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: No class on Monday so Friday is a regular class

Second week:(June 6-10) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Review browsing stick use.
 * 2) Reading:Y week
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Y week
 * 5) Websites:
 * 6) Friday: __The Absolutely Awful Alphabet__ by Mordicai Gerstein

Third week: (June 13-17) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Bemboszoo
 * 2) Reading: Z week **Test: write alphabet in order**
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Z week
 * 5) Websites: [] []
 * 6) Friday:

Fourth week: (June 20-24) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Computer vocabulary. Katie's Computer Alphabet Bingo to help them recognize letters on the keyboard.
 * 2) Reading:
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: [|http://growing.course.com/level_K/index.html] []
 * 6) Friday:

Fifth week: (June 27-July 1) Testing
 * 1) Activity: Type titles into the online catalog to find the call numbers.
 * 2) Reading: Letters in titles, letters on keyboard, __Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet: Letters in titles and on keyboard
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: Read a chapter book: __Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day__

Sixth week: (July 11-15)
 * 1) Activity: On the computers learn how to go open Internet browser, find link to [|Mrs. Watson's Website], find K-1 links, and navigate to mouse practice links
 * 2) Reading: __Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day__
 * 3) Nursery Rhyme:
 * 4) Alphabet:
 * 5) Websites: []
 * 6) Friday: Read a chapter book: __Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day__

Fiction and nonfiction

[] Cybersmart [|Go Places] This could be done at the white board.