Code And Go Robot Mouse Student Jobs

A couple months ago I was in an elementary where students were introduced to Code And Go Robot Mouse Game. I had spent some time learning more about this resource but you always learn more when put it in students' hands.

After one class went through we decided to assign jobs so that there was less confusion on who was programming the mouse (clearing the mouse, pushing play, etc...). We had about 3-5 students in each group so we were also working on communication and collaboration. We came up with these jobs to help the students manage this better. Kindergarten through 4th graders tried this game and they all LOVED it! I loved to hear the collaboration and critical thinking going on throughout each class!

Hope you find them as useful as we did!

We delivered our 1st Boxed.PD! What is Boxed.PD?

Today we delivered our first Boxed.PD. ... (we are still trying to figure out a better name but we aren't letting that stop us for now, if you have suggestions please leave a comment below!)...

Our first recipient was an Instructional Coach in the area who asked for a box focused on Coaching/Mentoring. Tyler Hellmann and I worked with Michelle Vaughn who helped us gather a couple resource focused on Coaching/Mentoring and more specifically observation which is what this coach asked us to focus on. It was nice to collaborate with others in our agency to create something like this!

I am glad I had Crystal Marshal's (@crystalmmarshal) help me with this process! She was nice enough to send a box to for me to check out what they send and it gave us great ideas for items to add to the box and formatting of the documents. Here is the blog post from edSurge that gave us this idea.

Great pick, thanks for this timely article! @crystalmmarshal pic.twitter.com/oG9nebPdK7

— Marisa Dahl (@medahl) March 13, 2018

Our goal for these boxes is to Design, develop, and implement professional learning programs (i.e. Boxed.PD) to promote digital age best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. (Aligns with the ISTE Coaching Standards #2 d)

We are already creating out next box, we will stick with Coaching/Mentoring but this time the focus will be building relationships and ideas for pop-up PD's. If you have any resources that you think would be helpful for this topic please add them to the comments below!


Here is the final project that was delivered today! We can't wait to get feedback from our recipients!

Spark Creativity with Osmo Monster!

I love seeing the joy and excitement my son shows while working with the Osmo this week.

Here are some great resources to help integrated Osmo - Monster into your preschool or early elementary classroom.

Updated TPT Products and Store Name!

Be sure to check out my updated products in my TPT Store!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Digital-Play-Learn

I am also in the process of changing over the title of my blog to Digital Play Learn, I updated my TPT Store name tonight.

Here are two of my latest product updates.

Preschool-1st Grade Date Notebook Artifacts

Reaching Benchmark Goals (which is also a part of the file above)

New Logo - New Name --- Follow my on Instagram! @DigtalPlayLearn

Elementary Device Expectations - Poster FREEBIE Included

Many classrooms are adding devices (iPads/Chromebook/Tablets) and as we do that we need to remember that it is just as important to teach expectations for these new devices as it is to teach students how to use the sand or water table (if you are lucky enough to still have one of those in your classroom.) Just because students have access to devices at home they may not have the same expectations as they would in the classroom.

Below I created a Device Expectation poster to help remind and teach the students how to use devices in the classroom.

Link to Poster