Fun with an iPad!

Mrs. Fennemore's little boy (who is really a big boy) let us use his iPad today! We were very careful with it.  We are exploring iPads a little to show the grownups who rule all the schools around us that they are a great learning tool!  A few of the kinderkids spent 5 minutes of Daily 5 choice time today to Work on Writing or Word Work using iPad apps.  Look at what a few kinderkids did in under 5 minutes!  Superstars!

First we had some friends choose a free app Skitch to label what was happening with our pumpkin seeds and our caterpillars. 

We also had two stories created using the My Story app.  The kinders found this one really easy to use.  We can read and listen to their finished stories on the ipad but we couldn't post it directly here - so I had to videotape it playing on the ipad for you to see! We hope you like them! Not bad for under 5 minutes work!

Volcano....

   

 and How a Pumpkin Seed Grows

 




And another friend told a story about a caterpillar. 

 Another friend practised how to print and name different letters using My Name.

  

 The Word Magic app was another favorite! Some friends found missing initial sounds while others were stretching words to hear the missing vowel! We are great word detectives!

 We are hoping an iPad fairy will come and leave us a few iPads to explore a little longer!

Learning to do the Daily 5!

No, it's not a new dance! The Daily 5 is just a different way to deliver the Language Arts curriculum! It builds on the students' ability to choose how they want to learn. We are learning to be "experts" in each of the 5 choices.

This week we practiced "Word Work" and "Read to Self". Students choose what activity they would like to do first, second and third and spend just four minutes working at each activity. Eventually (when they are experts!) more time will be spent working independently.

Some of the Word Work choices in action.

Kindergarten friends in their "special" reading spaces.

Ms. Warren was so pleased and proud of their hard work and she knows they will be at "expert" status in no time!