Pre-Kindergarten

Unit 7: Shadows and Reflections

Cheering Shadow Family Clip Art

 

Teacher NotesWebsitesPixieKidspirationPreK Home

Big Bird Gets a Letter

Wooden Alphabet Blocks - Vendor: iClipart

Elmo's

Keyboard-O-Rama
picture for keyboard

Alphabet Letter Sound Match

 

Starfallstars

Chicken Coop/Beginning Sounds (Professor Garfield)
picture of chicken

Find the Difference Between the Pictures (uptoten.com)

More Resources

 

Spelling Words/

Easter Egg Fun
picture of an egg

Fun with Fridge Magnets
(ABCYa - writing)
stars
Alphabet Soup
(Cookie Monster)
Sid the Science Kid Shadows
(PBSKids)
tornado
Shadows
(BBC)
mailbox
discoveryReading Rainbow Video Clip: My Shadow
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discoveryShadows and Sunlight Video Clip
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shadow

Shadow Puppet Video


 image from http://socialshadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Dance.jpg
Shadow Dance Video
Vocabulary Match
Weeks 1 & 2

smartboard
Vocabulary Match
Weeks 3 & 4

smartboard
 
 
 

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Pixie Templates:
 

 


 

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 Kidspiration Templates:

Shape Shadow Match-Drag shape shadows to the correct shape.


 

Teacher Notes: Content and technology standards with student outcomes for templates and activities are listed below.
 
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Big Bird Gets a Letter

Students will classify words by initial sounds.

Common Core:  RF2.e Isolate and pronouce the initial sound in spoken words.
Technology Standard:1.A.1.b. Use mouse to perform computer functions.  3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Elmo's Keyboard-O-Rama

Students will press keys on the keyboard and Elmo will tell words that begin with that letter.
Common Core:  RF2.e Isolate and pronouce the initial sound in spoken words.
Technology Standard:3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Alphabet Letter Sound Match

Students will match letters with their beginning sounds by playing memory. 

Common Core:  RF2.e Isolate and pronouce the initial sound in spoken words.
Technology Standard: 1.A.1.b. Use mouse to perform computer functions.  3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Starfall

(Reading / Seasonal activities)

 

Common Core:  RF1.d Recognize and name some upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Technology Standard: 3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Chicken Coop / Beginning Sounds

Students identify pictures with the same beginning sounds.
Common Core:  RF2.e Isolate and pronouce the initial sound in spoken words.
Technology Standard: 1.A.1.b. Use mouse to perform computer functions.  3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Find the Difference Between Pictures

Students will identify 10 differences between 2 pictures.
Common Core:  SL4 Decribe familiar people, places, things and events with modeling and support.
Technology Standard 3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Spelling Words/ Easter Egg Fun

Students can create words and/or their name by dragging letters into the egg.
Common Core:  RF3.c Recognize name in print as well as some environmental print.
Technology Standard:3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
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Beginning Sounds /Yy/, /Zz/, /Pp/

Students will identify beginning sounds by sorting pictures.
Common Core: RF2d. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
Technology Standard:3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills

Shape Hunt

Students will be able to identify shapes in real world photographs.

 

Common Core: PK.G.2:
Group the shapes by attributes.
Essential Skills and Knowledge Ability to sort shapes by applying their real-life experiences of sorting
Technology Standard:3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
2D and 3D Shape Sort

Students will recognize 3D shapes by sorting pictures.
Common Core: PK.G.2:
Group the shapes by attributes.
Essential Skills and Knowledge Ability to sort shapes by applying their real-life experiences of sorting
Technology Standard:3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Shadows and Reflections Vocabulary Match

Students will drag pictures to match them to the vocabulary words.
Common Core: L4 Determine or Clarify the meaning of unknown words and phrases based on prekindergarten reading and content.
Technology Standard: 3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Kidspiration
Shape Shadow Sort
Sid the Science Kid
BBC Shadows
Students will match shape shadows.
Common Core:  L.5.a. With modeling and support, sort common objects into categories (e.g. shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. 
Technology Standard: 1.0- Basic Operations: Students will use computers and related technologies in a proficient manner that demonstrates an understanding of the nature of these systems

Videos

Shadows and Sunlight

Reading Rainbow Video Clip:
My Shadow

Students will watch a video clip
to learn about shadows.
Common Core:  L6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversation, being read to, and responding to text.
Technology Standard:3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills
Shadow Puppet Video/ Shadow
Dance Video

Students will watch a video clip
learn about shadows. 
Common Core:  L6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversation, being read to, and responding to text.
Technology Standard:3.A.1.a. Explore and use technology tools in an instructional setting for learning. Explore and use teacher selected technology tools to reinforce skills

 AACPS Office of Instructional Technology - August 2015

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