2009 Kindergarten Projects

Teach 21 Capstone ExpoMay 4th

Kindergarten Projects

• Station: 1 Title: “National Symbols and Presidential Elections”• Name: Bethany Bailey Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Social

Studies• Summary of Project: The students explored America's national symbols

through the use of internet photos, video streaming, and websites. They also studied about elections and voted for their own "Kindergarten Class President" in a mock election using Acti-votes.

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• Station: 2 Title: “Sense-ational Senses”• Name: Deb Havens Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Other• Summary of Project: The entire concept behind this project was to teach

children how they use their five senses to learn about the world around them. In the project Kindergarten students learned about technology. Using this technology, the students were able to take their learning to levels they would never be able to achieve without these tools. Every month the children participated in a new, big classroom theme. All lessons were multi-sensory; however, within each special unit, one of the five senses was highlighted.


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• Station: 3 Title: “Seasons”• Name: Jill Cole Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Science• Summary of Project: The Kindergarten students were actively

engaged in an in-depth study of the seasons. The students discovered how the seasons were alike and different. We created a movie and podcasted about our favorite season.


• • Station: 4 Title: “Let's Be Social”• Name: Katherine Derman Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Other• Summary of Project: My special needs Kindergarten students

worked very hard on learning appropriate social skills. After a unit of study, each child completed a survey, created their own social story book, and then starred in their own social story movie.




• Station: 5 Title: “Publishing for Patients”• Name: Mrs. Lindsay Stickler Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Language Arts• Summary of Project: My Kindergarten students participated in a service

learning project for Northside Hospital in Cherokee County. While using language arts and technology skills, they made different creations for the hospital patients to enjoy! Not only did the children learn how to use technology in the classroom, but they also learned how to use technology to be good citizens and to help others!


• Station: 6 Title: “ABC's of Kindergarten”• Name: Sheryl Willoughby Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Other• Summary of Project: Kindergarteners learn the letters of the alphabet

and the sounds that they make. My class demonstrated the completion of this standard by making a page in an alphabet book. After the pages of the book were completed, each child read his/her page in a movie and chose their own transition slide to complete the video.




• Station: 7 Title: “America”• Name: Angie Switzer Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Social

Studies• Summary of Project: My students were engaged in a study of

America. We learned about past presidents and national symbols. We wanted to discover what makes our country special. Each student created a power point about a president. Also, the students with help from older students produced a movie about their symbol.

• Contact Information: [email protected] • Station: 8 Title: “Fractured Fairy Tales”• Name: Cathy Stickler Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Language Arts• Summary of Project: Kindergarten students were engaged in a

month long literature based genre study of fairy tales. The end products were written in cooperative gorups. Each group wrote and illustrated a fractured fairy tale.




• Station: 9 Title: “Gravity at Avery”• Name: Rebecca Spears Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Science• Summary of Project: Students studied gravity and the effects of

gravity on common objects. Students then worked in pairs to make photo stories of evidence of gravity at Avery Elementary School.


• Station: 10 Title: “The Weather We Go Through”• Name: Cameron Muchow Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Science• Summary of Project: The students spent the year learning about

different types of weather we experience. During this time the students learned a multitude of new vocabulary, learned the job of a meteorologist, and became masters of laptop computers. The students also completed podcasts and weather videos of weather happening around us.




• Station: 11 Title: “Flower Power”• Name: Debbie Ritter Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Science• Summary of Project: The topic of study driving this capstone is plants. Good or bad,

everyone’s got an opinion about plants, and students are no exception. Plants are remarkable in so many ways; yet, in their study, emphasis is usually placed solely on naming the parts of a plant. By allowing students to become active learners, rather than passive viewers by implementing a level of technology integration (LOTI), students could be treated to some of the fun aspects of studying botany in the hopes of dispelling the perception that plants are boring.

• Students published books using Microsoft Word, wrote individual stories using Kidspiration, and took digital pictures and narrated a movie using Photostory/Movie Maker to document their learning experiences.


• Station: 12 Title: “Exploration of Plants through Technology and Hands On Learning”

• Name: Lyn Whitworth Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Science• Summary of Project: Students will take pictures of plants, keep journals to record

field trips, plant growth, and write stories. The class will produce a class book with pictures taken outside and on field trips demonstrating how plants are sorted and classified. The class will design a PowerPoint with facts about plants.




• Station: 13 Title: “Habitat Happenings”• Name: Melanie Phillips Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Science• Summary of Project: Students researched a habitat and the

animals that live there. They made a clay-mation movie about each of their animals. We also added a video clip of the real animal. Each clip was a part of a news show called habitat happenings hosted by students in the class.


• Station: 14 Title: “Animals on the Farm”• Name: Kimbra Satterfield and Nancy Walker Grade: Kindergarten

Focus Subject: Other• Summary of Project: The students were engaged in Reading, Math,

Science and Writing activities that related to animals on the farm. Technology was integrated into each of these subjects.

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• Station: 15 Title: “Using Technology in Reading and Writing”• Name: Allison Correll Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Language Arts• Summary of Project: The students have used technology

throughout the year to complete self created books. The capstone is a project completed with another class about animals and their habitat. The students, working in partners, have created factual books about their animal and dioramas.


• Station: 16 Title: “Sensational Seasons”• Name: Brandy McConnell Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Science• Summary of Project: Kindergarten students worked throughout

the school year to learn about each season. The students created season journals, completed a web blog, among many other items.




• Station: 17 Title: “The Lifecycle of a Butterfly”• Name: Amy Catherine Manzella Grade: Kindergarten Focus

Subject: Science• Summary of Project: The students studied the lifecycle of a

butterfly by observing the changes of six caterpillars. The students kept a journal and wrote in it twice a week during the project. At the end of the project, the students helped the teacher create a Photo Story movie documenting the lifecycle of the six butterflies.


• Station: 18 Title: “The Gingerbread Man Goes on Vacation”• Name: Brandy Simms Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Social

Studies• Summary of Project: Kindergarten students participated in a

project similar to a Flat Stanley project. Each student sent a gingerbread person to visit an out of state friend or family member. The students then produced a video to document where and what their gingerbread man or woman did on vacation.




• Station: 19 Title: “How To Hatch a Chick”• Name: Danielle Kononen Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

English• Summary of Project: Kindergarten students learned to type on a

keyboard, create stories using Story Book Weaver and Microsoft Word, and create a digital story using digital cameras and Photo Story in order to investigate the life cycle of a chicken.

• Contact Information: [email protected] • Station: 20 Title: “The Lifecycle of a Frog”• Name: Kelly Reasor Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Science• Summary of Project: My capstone is a virtual tour of the lifecycle

of a frog. My students have raised leopard tadpoles and documented the changes throughout their lifecycle. We used many different areas of technology in this project including our digital camera, scanner, and having the students learn to type their journals using Type to learn Jr.




• Station: 21 Title: “Amazing Animal Stories”• Name: Dianne B. Vergouven Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject:

Language Arts• Summary of Project: After learning about and then researching

different animals with their 5th grade partner, each student wrote either a fiction or non-fiction story. Stories were typed using Type to Learn Jr. We then made a photostory of their work. A movie of the entire process was also produced. The students then shared what they had learned about writing a story with other Kindergarten classes.


• Station: 22 Title: “The ABC's of Amazing Animals”• Name: Donna Toole Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Science• Summary of Project: My students researched an animal and we

made a Photo Story. I also made a short video to show the process• Contact Information: [email protected]



• Station: 23 Title: “Learning My Way”• Name: Carrie O'Bryant Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Language

Arts• Summary of Project: Students participated in literacy projects including

the creation of an alphabet movie, a clay-mation project, and a writing project including webs, typed stories, illustrations, and narration all captured in digital format. Technologies used included Kidspiration, Microsoft Word, digital camera and video camera, digital voice recorders, web cams, and Adobe Premier Elements.


• Station: 24 Title: “Months of the Year”• Name: Cecelia Rainey Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Math• Summary of Project: Kindergarten students learned the months of the

year in order, the four seasons in which the months are divided, the national holidays that occur in each month and the significance of the holidays and the people associated with these special days.

• The students produced a "Months of the Year" journal, a calendar for the 2008-2009 school year, a birthday graph of our class birthdays, and a movie about the months of the year and the special days celebrated in each month.




• Station: 25 Title: “Vowels Are Everywhere”• Name: Kimberly Moody Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Reading• Summary of Project: Kindergarten students were engaged in a study of

vowels. They learned "reading tricks" which contained vowels such as: the r controlled vowels (er, ir, or, ur, and ar) ing, ink, oo, ook, ay, all and etc. The students took digital photos of vowels found on the school premises and created graphs to report their findings. They produced a claymation project and a movie hi-lighting their knowledge gained about vowels.


• Station: 26 Title: “Letters All Around Us”• Name: Sandy Hendrix Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Reading• Summary of Project: Tricks such as "sleepy e", "two vowels walking",

"ch", "sh", and many others were introduced throughout the year. The students took pictures and worked on the laptops to complete a movie, a book and a Claymation project using the tricks they have learned this year.


• Station: 27 Title: “Born To Fly”• Name: Amy Green Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Science• Summary of Project: Students will be introduced to many different

types of technolgy while exploring the life of a butterfly. Using this as a focus topic student will learn different ways to use technology while observing and recording information about caterpillars living in our classroom.


• Station: 28 Title: “Where is the Gingerbread Man”• Name: Beverly Grimm Grade: Kindergarten Focus Subject: Social

Studies• Summary of Project: Understanding maps and globles through the

use of the traveling Gingerbread Man.• Contact Information: [email protected]

• Station: 29 Title: “From Acorns to Zebras”• Name: Nikki Mason Grade: Kindergarten Focus

Subject: Language Arts• Summary of Project: The students have learned all the

letters in the alphabet and produced a school alphabet book by thinking up all school related words and taking all pictures. They have also produced a claymation of the alphabet.


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