•Locates the Menu Bar and uses an option from the Menu

•Uses Return, spacebar

•Uses both hands on keyboard

•Uses Shift key to capitalize words

•Uses Delete key

•Opens and Saves Text

•Uses one space between words

•Uses one space after a punctuation mark

•Sorts and classifies data

•Constructs and interprets graphs

•Compares graphs

•Uses basic drawing tools

•Views or uses a slide show

•Launches a browser and navigates a site

•Uses the browser buttons: Home, Back, Forward, Favorites

•Respects others' work and workspace

•Demonstrates appropriate behavior when using equipment

1. Self-portrait using KidPix and learn how to type name.

2. Use literature inspired Kidspiration templates. Sample templates focus on rhyming words, patterns, and sorting.
Kinderhive: http://www.kinderhive.net/kidspiration.html
Kidspiration Collection: http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~elem/kidspiration/collection.html

3. Complete the following activities in Graph Club :
•Counting and Sorting-Funny Faces (picture and bar graph)
•Measurement-How Long is Your Pencil? (table and bar graph)
•Survey-Favorite Flavor (collecting and interpreting data-table and picture graphs)
-Eye Color (colecting data through observation-bar and circle graphs)

4. Story sequencing: Group activity using PowerPoint to sequence pictures.

5. Use teacher-made templates with the program, Clicker, in connection with subject areas.

6. Internet Skills: Use Kindergarten Math and Language Arts Games on web page:
http://intranet.cathedralnyc.org/grkonlineresources/konlinegames.htm

1. KidPix quilt. Students make individual squares, which can be put together into a class quilt.

2. KidPix Slide Show on a subject created topic such as fall or a field trip.

3. Participate in an online project such as the Traveling Mascots Project.