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SECOND TRIMESTER
All of first trimester skills plus
  • introduce how to use the MacBook Air 
  • introduce how to use the mouse
  • KidPix (pencil, fill bucket, paintbrush, backgrounds, stickers, animations)
  • Dreambox on the MacBook Airs
All of first trimester skills plus
  • ​introduce Path application
FIRST TRIMESTER
Media Day 4 - 
  • Rules/Routines
  • Introduce DreamBox on iPads​
Media Day 3 - 
  • Rules/Routines
  • Read Dot and use DoodleBuddy to make dots
Media Day 2 - 
  • Rules/Routines
  • ​Social Skill - Self Control (hands in lap and quiet listening)
  • Review - rules for using the iPad
  • Introduction to new Doodle Buddy tools
    • Stencil (move, make large, make small, use multiple colors, rotate, get rid of stencil)
    • Stamps (large, small)
    • Eraser, Smudge
    • Text tool (change color, change font, move, make larger, make smaller)
    • Change background - when done put white background back in place and clear the workspace
    • Use home button to return to home page and close iPad
    • Sharing with a partner/using my own iPad
    • Working with headphones
Media Day 1 - 
  • Rules/Routines
  • ​Social Skill - Self Control (hands in lap and quiet listening), where's the bathroom and how to turn on the light, where's the drinking fountains
  • Introduction to the iPad - rules for using the iPad
  • Introduction to Doodle Buddy - Chalk tool, undo tool and trash can clear tool
  • Introduce Stencil tool - demo only
Media - Our Kindergartners will be learning to:
  • use an iPad
  • use a laptop computer
  • work with a trackpad/mouse
  • navigate the Internet
  • drag/drop objects
  • open and close applications
  • manipulate online videos/photographs
  • use the Internet to get information
Robotics and Programming Day 5
  • Doodle buddy on the iPads
  • mall group introduction to Go on Dash ​robots
Robotics and Programming Day 3 & 4 
  • Rules/Routines
  • Introduce DreamBox Learning (on iPad)/Practice using DreamBox Learning
  • DoodleBuddy
  • Introduce DASH robot and Go application
Robotics and Programming Day 2 - Same as Media for 1st couple weeks of the first Trimester
  • Rules/Routines
  • ​Social Skill - Self Control (hands in lap and quiet listening)
  • Review - rules for using the iPad
  • Introduction to new Doodle Buddy tools
    • Stencil (move, make large, make small, use multiple colors, rotate, get rid of stencil)
    • Stamps (large, small)
    • Eraser, Smudge
    • Text tool (change color, change font, move, make larger, make smaller)
    • Change background - when done put white background back in place and clear the workspace
    • Use home button to return to home page and close iPad
    • Sharing with a partner/using my own iPad
    • Working with headphones
Robotics and Programming Day 1 - Same as Media for 1st couple weeks of the first Trimester
  • Rules/Routines
  • ​Social Skill - Self Control (hands in lap and quiet listening), where's the bathroom and how to turn on the light, where's the drinking fountains
  • Introduction to the iPad - rules for using the iPad
  • Introduction to Doodle Buddy - Chalk tool, undo tool and trash can clear tool
  • Introduce Stencil tool - demo only
 
Robotics and Programming - Our Kindergartners will be learning to:
  • plan and design a sequence of events
  • program a robot to perform a sequence of events
  • use a variety of apps to practice programming skills (on an iPad)
Bookflix - Bookflix features fiction and non-fiction books that students can read independently or they can choose to have the stories read out loud. The site also features links to puzzles, safe websites on the topic, and a visit to the authors of fiction stories. This site can be accessed at school and at home.
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Dreambox - Our students use Dreambox to develop mathematical concepts by using virtual manipulatives and critical thinking skills. Dreambox can be used on a computer, laptop or iPad (at school or at home). If you use the app at home you will need an access code (you can get this from your child's teacher).

​iReady - iReady is the universal screening tool that our complex has chosen to use with all students. In addition to being a screening tool it also is an adaptive instructional tool providing lessons in math and reading for all students. The instructional component is accessible at home and school and works best using the Google Chrome browser on a laptop or desktop computer. In 2018-2019 it became available for the iPad.

2017-2018

Kindergarten Robotics