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On this page I'll describe each of the family projects, and possibly show some examples of what
last year's kids created.
About Our Class
Favorite Links
"All About Me"
Poster
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DUE August
22, 2008
Create a poster that describes your child include pictures. Describe
his/her favorite things like food, toys, games, activities, holiday. Add where and when your child was born.
Decorate the poster with pictures, stickers, crayons, markers, anything you and your child would like to add to make it unique!
Standard: The student
will be able to listen and speak to peers appropiately. The student will be able to talk about his/her life and
include important facts such as birthday, family members, likes and dislikes.
Build Your House
DUE September 29, 2008
Build a house with your family. Use any items you
have at home like shoe boxes, or cereal boxes. Be creative. The purpose is to learn your address, phone number
and full name. The students will present and give mini-speeches on Friday, September
2008, at 1:00 p.m.
Standard: The Student will be able to recite his/her
full name, address, and phone number independently.
"What I Want to Be When I Grow Up!"
Speech
Due October 31, 2008 With your family, talk about different jobs you can do as a grown-up.
Pick a job that you like. You will dress up as your career and in at least 5 sentences you will tell the classmates:
1. What job you want to have. 2. Why you think that job
would be good for you. 3. Who your job will help? 4 How do you get your job? college/trade
school/just apply? 5. What tools would you use? Standard: The student will be able to listen and speak to peers appropiately. The student
will be able to talk about making choices for his/her own future.
Fantastic
Turkey
Due November
11, 2008 Design your own Fantastic Turkey! I will
send home a turkey body on the 19th of October. Decorate this turkey as outrageous as you want... paint, feathers,
stickers, pictures, cloth, shiny items, glitter, etc. There will be rewards for the "Best Dressed Turkey",
the "Most Colorful Turkey", the"Most Unique Turkey", the "Prettiest Turrkey", and
the "Most Realistic Turkey!" The administration, office staff, kindergarten Para-pros and kindergarten
teachers will be asked to judge the turkeys. Standards:
Social Studies- The Students will learn about the National Holidays (Thanksgiving).
Language Arts- The student will describe the steps in a process. (by April they are expected to write events in a series,
so talking about How and What is a great way to lead into writing steps/series independently!)
Gingerbread Man
This project has no due date! Hopefully we will start
recieving Gingerbread Men by January 1st!
Gingerbread Man visits With our Families and Friends. I
will provide each family with 2 Gingerbread men. Please pick 2 family members or friends that live in other
places. Send them/give them a Gingerbread man, ask them to decorate him so that he represents where they live. They will send
the Gingerbread Man back to Harmony Leland in a self addressed-stamped envelope.
For example,
my cousin in San Diego might decorate him with sand from the beach or pictures/stickers from the San Deigo Zoo.
When my family lived in Birmingham, they decorated a Gingerbread man with a UAB Blazers sticker, an Alabama
football jersey and the Alabama flag. It doesn't have to be super fancy, just coloring it will do! Our
goal is that it comes from somewhere else. We will plot them on the U.S. map to show where they come from. If you
send them to another country, we will show that Gingerbread man on the world map!
Standards- Social Studies-
Learning about the different cultures and regions that our family members represent.Respecting differences.
Famous American/Inventor Speech
The
families are asked to pick an influential person, a list of multi-cultural persons will be provided. At home, research
the person... find the birthdate, date of death, location of birth, and contributions or inventions of the person. The
students will give a speech on the 9th of February about their person. You may even dress up like your person!
Standards: According
to Picasso's scope and sequence of the state standards, January's Social Studies focus will be Martin Luther King
Jr., the struggle for peace and equality. Again, according to Picasso's scope and sequence of the state standards,
February's Social Studies Focus will be the Presidents of the United States. February is also African-American
Month,so we will be taking the liberty to blend the 2 topics for that first week of February.
School Wide Book Report
Due Week of March 3rd! This year we will be implementing a Book Report Fair throughout the school! All students, K-5, will be asked to read
a book and send in a project board discussing that book. They will be asked to display the characters, plot, author,
title, and location/scene. MORE information will be sent home in the winter.
Humpty Dumpty
Due April 15, 2009
As a family, create a 3-dimensional Humpty. The students will use mathematical processes to figure out
which Humpty is the Longest/Tallest, Heaviest, and "Fattest"/biggest circumference. Awards will be given to
the winners!
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