Goals and 'I Can' Statements
Rubrics and Assessment Tools
Goal 1: Students will create projects on paper and on their iPad to share their artistic abilities and demonstrate their learning.
Goal 2: Students will use numbers to 30 to pay for products, receive payment for a product, and add the total cost of products together.
Goal 3: Students will write sentences using kindergarten appropriate skills .
Goal 1: Students will create projects on paper and on their iPad to share their artistic abilities and demonstrate their learning.
- I can use the camera application to record myself.
- I can post pictures, video, and text to my blog.
- I can make a poster with color, shape, words, and details.
Goal 2: Students will use numbers to 30 to pay for products, receive payment for a product, and add the total cost of products together.
- I can count the money needed to pay for products.
- I can add numbers together by using objects, fingers, or a calculator.
Goal 3: Students will write sentences using kindergarten appropriate skills .
- I can write a sentence with the three sentence rules (uppercase letter only in beginning, spaces between words, and a mark at the end).
- I can spell or copy my quick words from the word wall.
- I can sound-spell words by stretching them out.
Standards
ISTE Standards:
MN Math Standards:
- 1. Creativity and Innovation: Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
- 2. Communication and Collaboration: Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others
MN Math Standards:
- K.1.1.2 Read, write, and represent whole numbers to 31.
- K.1.1.3 Count, with and without objects, forward and backward to at least 20.
- K.1.2.1 Use objects to find sums and differences of numbers between 0 and 10.
- K.OA.A.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
- K.OA.A.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10.
- K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.
- 0.10.2.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing: (a) Capitalize the first word in a sentence. (b) Recognize and name end punctuation. (c) Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). (d) Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
- 0.8.8.8 With prompting and support, create an individual or shared multimedia work for a specific purpose.
Apps and Materials
- Kindergarten Store Project presentation
- Kindergarten Store Project forms (can be completed paper-pencil or on iPad based on student need)
- Tablet for each student (or one per every small group of students)
- Camera application for tablet
- Talking calculator app (or similar child-friendly calculator app)
- Blog (preferably a classroom blog and a personal blog for each student)
- Large poster paper
- Sticky labels (for pricing products)
- Coins (either play or real)
- Clay, drawing paper, water colors, and other miscellaneous art supplies
Lesson Breakdown
This lesson design is set up for nine 60-90 minute sessions. It could be adjusted and completed in five days if more time is given each day. There are slides for each day in the presentation linked under the 'apps and materials' heading. Adjust and plan according to the needs of your children, space, and access to materials. Take pictures and document each day to share on the classroom blog.
Day One: Project Introduction and Planning (Goal 3)
Day One: Project Introduction and Planning (Goal 3)
- Classroom discussion: What is a store and why do we need them?
- Project introduction
- Small group meetings and discussion
- Individual surveys
- Kindergarten store presentation: the basics
- Meet with each student and discuss their proposal and provide assistance in planning
- Student shares their proposal on their blog
- Students create their products (drawings, sculptures, paintings, etc)
- Students add price tags to their products
- Share pictures of signs used for businesses in the area
- Students use large poster paper to create a store sign that will hang on their table on opening day
- View commercial example
- Discuss what makes a good commercial and what is its' purpose
- Set minimum requirements for completing the commercials and begin filming using the camera application
- Student shares their commercial on their blog
- Students share their sign, products, and commercial (no more than five minutes each)
- Prepare for the big day by discussing how to use the calculator application when someone purchases more than one item
- Practice using coins to pay for items
- Set-up store sign and products
- Discuss plan for who shops and when
- Discuss what to do when you run out of money
- Multiple days of sales can be utilized if necessary as well as selling to other classrooms
- Students complete end of project survey
- Students share there thoughts on their blog