Kinder SGI

Kindergarten Explorers

Explorers is an enrichment class designed to enhance the classroom instruction for students who have mastered the current learning objectives. We work together once a week in the library learning some basic concepts of research and technology.

RISD uses the Big Six research method

Mouse Practice

Fun Things To Do With Our Favorite Songs:

Old MacDonald Had a Farm- We use our online resource, Searchasaurus, to find pictures of animals. We save the picture to our Wallace Swap file. We get the picture from the Swap file and print it on Ms. Enriquez's color printer and make puppets to use while we sing the song. We also use construction paper and paper rolls to make a barn. We might surprise you with our choice of animals!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - We will use this data page and look up the name of a real star using the link below.
http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/name.html
We will write the name of our star & its constellation on an old CD & hang it from the ceiling. We will also use chalk, star stickers and black construction paper to make our own constellations.

Itsy Bitsy Spider - We will use the spider book series by James Gerholdt to find the names of real spiders. Then we will use cardboard tubes & aluminum foil to make a water spout and yarn to make rain. We will draw our spider's body to match the pictures in the book while using pipe cleaners for the legs.

Ring Around The Rosie - We will use our library nonfiction books to answer two questions: Why do plants need flowers? and Why are flowers so pretty? We will use the computer to color famous artwork of flowers. We will read a story about Lady Bird Johnson and Texas wildflowers. We will draw pictures of Texas wildflowers, label them & cut them out. We will make our own flowers out of various types of paper. We will make a paper pocket to hold our flowers. Online Resources:
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/do/paperflowers.html.
http://www.texasalmanac.com/ladybird_2000.htm
http://www.wildflower.org/
Texas Flower Images: http://www.wildflower2.org/NPIN/Gallery/State.asp?StateField=TX&submit2.x=9&submit2.y=5
Online coloring pages: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/flowers.shtml
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/flowers/tissueflower/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/flowers/pencildecoration/

Source: "Crafts From Your Favorite Children's Songs" by Kathy Ross The Millbrook Press, Brookfield, Connecticut, 2001

Community Helpers Research

1. What do I need to do?
Find information about your community helper such as where he/she works, what he/she does and who he/she helps.

2. What can I use to find what I need?
"We Need" book series that Ms. Enriquez has saved.

3. Where can I find what I need?
We are learning to use the Table of Contents and the pictures in the books to find information.

4. What information can I use?
Whatever we find in the books and what we have experienced in our life (we know what the dentist's office looks like).

5. How can I put my information together?
We're making a booklet! click here for the Community Helpers booklet
(thanks to Bowie Elementary library)

6. How will I know if I did well?

When we have finished our pages and can look at them knowing we've done our best.

SGI Research Project:
Community Helpers booklet (thanks to Bowie Elementary library)

Our Research Project TEKS

Information Acquisition

TEKS

Locate and use important areas of the LMC

Language Arts: K.12D

Demonstrate appropriate behaviors for checking out, returning and caring for library materials according to district procedures

Language Arts: K.1B

Acquire library terminology, as needed, such as shelf marker, check out and check in

Recognize that different parts of a book offer information, such as cover, spine, title, and page

Language Arts: K.5H

Analyze information by predicting outcomes

Language Arts: K.12C

Use such print and nonprint sources as picture dictionaries, nonfiction books, and Internet resources to gather needed information (with guidance)

Language Arts: K.12B

TEKS

Identify and define a specific problem or task for research, investigation, or discussion

Language Arts: K.16A; Social Studies: K.17

Generate ideas or relevant questions as a basis for inquiry/research

Language Arts: K.12A; Social Studies: K.16A

Interpret graphical information such as pictures

Language Arts: K.12B

Analyze information to determine usefulness to problem solution

Social Studies: K.17; Science: K.2E, K.3A

Draw conclusions from information gathered

Language Arts: K.12C

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