ABC+Next+Steps

=4 areas to explore!=

1. Results of district-wide input and final feedback.
Here are the words, with "issue" words in bold. apple, bike, cat, dog, egg, fish, **guitar, house, itch**, **jam, key, leaf,** moon, nose, octopus, **pig, queen, rainbow,** sun, **turtle,** umbrella, **violin**, **watermelon**, x-ray, **yo-yo**, zipper

There is a paper set of images for the issue words. Take a look at the choices. If you'd like to comment on any of the issue words, click on the "comment" link below.

 [|comment here]

2. Talk to the kids!
Carol Cedarholm is going into classes to collect data from students on their recognition of images for the ABC chart. Would you like to help? Carol will supply you with a set of images and a survey form to record students' answers. The entire process takes about 2 minutes a student. You would send the completed form to Liddy by May 29th. That's it! We are trying to get at least 150 students. That means we need at least 8 PreK- 1st grade classes to participate. PLEEEASE!!!!!!

If you are interested, click[| here] to add your name to the list!!!

3. Image is Everything!
We have a chance to craft our own images for the ABC's chart with help from Carol Spence and her IHS art students. We need to be clear about all aspects of the images we want. Here are some sites you can explore to look for clear images of the words. [|google images] [|Enchanted Learning Picture Dictionary]

If you find any you like copy the url for the web page you found it on. Then come back to this page, click below, and paste the url in the form where requested.

[|I found an image and copied the url!!!]

4. What About the Movements???
Additionally, we need to think about movements to go with the images and/or making a separate set of movements.

The American Sign Language site has videos of movements for hundreds of words. Explore them here. [|Movement Dictionary]

Hap Palmer has written a song with a movement for each word. See the lyrics [|here.]

PreK has done work with on movement and the ABC's with Lisa Tsetse. You can see an overview of her work by going to her [|website] and clicking on the quicktime movie in the D is for Dancing section. Find a PreK teacher to get more specifics of her work.