Bloom’s Taxonomy will be implemented in this enriched program consisting of hands-on activities, projects, and variety of experiences for the students. The class will be divided into two groups to enable increased interaction between students and teachers.

Here are some examples of projects and ideas:

The children will----

To identify Amazing Words for each reading story (KNOWLEDGE) (COMPREHENSION)

To prepare and to produce -create shaped book and to share stories with PreK3 and PreK4 (APPLICATION)

To create and to dramatize shadow hand puppets and shadow dancing outside –journal results with drawing (SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To predict and to report ice cube melting- indoors, outdoors, sunlight, shade, sidewalk, garden, grass (COMPREHENSION)

To recall and to recite and to write your address and phone number (KNOWLEDGE)

To list and tell goals of the year (KNOWLEDGE)

To discuss and to explain good hygiene and basic body care (COMPREHENSION)

To construct shapes with toothpicks and gum drops (SYNTHESIS)

To show video on rain forest and jungle and to design/draw a maze through their own rain forest picture (KNOWLEDGE) (SYNTHESIS)

To name the sequence of months in the year and to organize the holidays in each month (KNOWLEDGE) (SYNTHESIS) paper plate art

To chart by making a daily chore chart (APPLICATION)

To compose a grocery list (SYNTHESIS)

To describe the importance of prayer and praying for others (COMPREHENSION)

To estimate the size of objects in the room using a ruler and tape measure (COMPREHENSION)

To research an event by cutting out pictures from a magazine or newspaper to evaluate an event (ANALYSIS) (EVALUATION)

To construct a clay model and to demonstrate how it might work (SYNTHESIS) (COMPREHENSION)

To select photographs of your life and to relate to the picture and its meaning of importance (APPLICATION) (ANALYSIS)

To create, to cut into 6 pieces and to assemble a colorful picture filled with details—puzzle picture—(SYNTHESIS)

To plan and to produce and to decide/select a subject for a mural working with a group (EVALUATION)

To produce a commercial and to perform with the ideas of selling a new toy (SYNTHESIS)

To demonstrate your talent or group talent (APPLICATION)

To plan a party and to record the necessary arrangements (SYSTHESIS)

To invent a machine to perform a specific task and debate its usefulness (SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To develop a new product, to create a name, to describe how you would market it (SYNTHESIS) (ANALYZE) (DEBATE)

To collect and classify and to examine bugs in plastic jars—use magnifying glass-outside activity (ANALYSIS)

To examine rock samples and to compare and contrast characteristics-to label--igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic (ANALYSIS) (KNOWLEDGE)

To write a prayerful note to your parents (KNOWLEDGE)

To pretend to be on a deserted island and float a note in a bottle and send it to a middle school class (SYNTHESIS)

To define what is a balanced meal and to conclude with a balanced meal design on a plate (KNOWLEDGE) (COMPREHENSION)

To role-play a bible verse (APPLICATION)

To take a nature walk outside and to review God’s creation- to restate experience in the classroom and list observations (KNOWLEDGE) (COMPREHENSION)

To interpret Jack Prelusky and Shel Silverstein’s poetry and to attempt to write our own poem (COMPREHENSION)

To predict the carnation experiment with food coloring and to summarize the results – assess daily results (EVALUTATION) (COMPREHENSION)

To construct puzzle pieces with a group – human body, presidents (SYNTHESIS)

To sing/recite the books of the bible – New Testament- (KNOWLEDGE)

To paraphrase a story that has been read with details and sequence of events (COMPREHENSION)

To read higher level books connected to the reading series (KNOWLEDGE)

To select pictures from magazines and to plan a budget with a stated amount of money for purchasing the items—to count money (SYNTHESIS) (EVALUATION) (KNOWLEDGE)

To choose rules for our school if you were the principal and to rank them in order of importance (SYNTHESIS) (EVALUATION)

To play bingo games (KNOWLEDGE)

To assemble Lego pieces with a partner (SYNTHESIS)

To role play being a teacher or any career of their choice –dramatize (APPLICATION)

To quote bible verses- ABC bible verses (KNOWLEDGE)

To discover the value of money by setting up a play store with price tags (APPLICATION) (KNOWLEDGE)

To research labels on boxes and cans (ANALYSIS)

To trace a clock and to practice telling time (COMPREHENSION)

To examine different kinds of maps and to create a map of Louisiana (ANALYSIS) (SYNTHESIS)

To design a comic book strip and to analyze comics in newspaper for ideas (ANALYSIS) (SYNTHESIS)

To describe the experience of using chop sticks to pick up items (KNOWLEDGE)

To choose items to pack in a suitcase (APPLICATION)

To role-play and to create a situation decided by a group- mall shopping, sport event (APPLICATION) (SYNTHESIS)

To design artistic handwriting- (block, bubble, slanted, dotted) (SYNTHESIS)

To debate and to judge the reasons for liking a flavor of ice cream—vanilla verses chocolate (EVALUTATION)

To produce a recipe of your favorite meal (APPLICATION)

To interview another student with questions (APPLICATION)

To trace feet and hands and create a picture (COMPREHENSION)

To develop a sentence and to cut it up –scramble sentence (SYNTHESIS)

To conclude, to analyze, and to predict –dissolve, float, sink, mix items such as sugar, salt, pepper, cinnamon, beans, cotton ball, sponge, nail, plastic (EVALUATION) (KNOWLEDGE) (ANALYSIS)

To examine magnets and there N and S pull (COMPREHENSION) (KNOWLEDGE)

To assess Mystery Paper Bags- feel, touch, taste, smell items (EVALUATION)

To find and to select 3 words from the newspaper and to arrange in ABC order (APPLICATION) (KNOWLEDGE)

To produce a paper bag puppet to construct a theater and to perform (SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To create the Mayflower drawing the outline with chalk on the playground (KNOWLEDGE) (APPLICTION)

To read Strega Nona book and to design pasta art (APPLICATION)

To identify examples of Acts of Kindness and to create a flower with petals of examples of these acts (KNOWLEDGE) (APPLICATION)

To compare and to contrast two animals using a Venn Diagram – two circles that connect in the middle (ANALYSIS)

To illustrate two pictures of people facing each other and talking and to use noodles as quotation marks (COMPREHENSION) (APPLICATION)

To construct and to identify the sides of a paper butterfly with two math problems such as 6+3 on one wing (outside folded ) and 4+5 on the other wing (outside folded ) and to state the answer in the body of the butterfly which is 9. (closed wings of butterfly for facts and inside the sum or difference. (KNOWLEDGE) (APPLICATION)

To design a page of dots and trace a crayon line to connect dots. (two people using two different colors) Word Wall Activity – to identify and to recite a word under the W’s for example (in order) and to trace a colored line from dot to dot when successfully stated the word. The most boxes wins! (KNOWLEDGE)

To identify, to illustrate, to compare and to contrast-- real food vs junk food-use two paper plates and draw items on each plate to recognize the difference between healthy choices and junk food. (KNOWLEDGE) (COMPREHENSION) (ANALYSIS)

To paraphrase a story by using characters, setting, problem, solution (COMPREHENSION)

To predict temperature using thermometers in classroom and outside and to label the degrees on our own picture of a thermometer (EVALUATION) (APPLICATION)

To role play the statue game of famous people—touch a button and to state 2-3 facts about that person (KNOWLEDGE) (APPLICATION)

To tell events of the weekend—personal, local news, weather- Weekend Reporter (KNOWLEDGE)

To compare and contrast fast food places- Mc Donald’s hamburger verses Burger King’s hamburger, or Pizza Hut verses Popeye’ s Chicken (ANALYSIS)

To develop a model using aluminum foil (SYNTHESIS) robot

To design and decorate a paper airplane and fly it down the hall and to measure the distance(SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To create an object using Q tips (SYNTHESIS)

To develop a time line of your life (SYNTHESIS)

To create and to design on paper first playground games like 4 square and to draw them on black top outside (SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To draw signs for Feed the Hungry and to display them around the school (SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To collect and to construct a bird’s nest with a partner – to pretend to be a bird and glue pieces together (SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To sing the Apostle Song- (KNOWLEDGE)

To write and to draw with your opposite hand (KNOWLEDGE) (APPLICATION)

To draw/design a picture while on your back- tape paper under your desk (SYNTHESIS) (APPLICATION)

To choose different animal parts and create another animal to explain why you choose to place them on your animal. (trunk of an elephant, feathers on a bird, scales on a fish, claws of a dinosaur, sharp tiger teeth (EVALUATION)