I am excited to share my robot book with you to prepare for the Hour of Code. During Hour Of Code Week students around the world will have the opportunity to learn about computer science. For more information about Hour Of Code. check out code.org.
Preschool students and Kindergarten students will enjoy reading this book about robots. Check out the photos and links below. Click here to download it from my store.
I am excited to share this donut interactive guided reading bundle. My daughter's birthday is donut themed so I put together a packet for you, and your students to enjoy!
Includes 4 books: 1 easy reader with dots for voice print match, 1 easy reader with no dots, and 1 harder reader. Also includes comprehension questions, sight word fluency strips, sentence structure practice, and like sight word practice sheet.
We ask our students to take risks every day, many times we may not even know they are taking risks. I also ask teachers to take risks all the time. So I knew I had to model risk taking.
This year for ITEC (Iowa Technology Education Connection) Conference I took a risk. I wanted to have participants to be creative. When teachers experience being creative they remember what it like to be creative as a kid. I had 45mins to explain why it is important for students to be creative and share a few creativity resources, which isn't a lot of time, but I wanted to make sure I left enough time for explore/play time! I didn't want the participants to feel like they were drinking from fire hydrant, instead I wanted them to play in the splash pad!
Participants were asked to create a superhero who resembled the strengths they felt that had. My examples is below. If I was going to ask a room full of teachers to do this, I had to model one.
Unfortunately, the internet wasn't working well during my session so many people couldn't participate but a few didn't give up, they tweeted theirs out later using the hashtag #superherosareread. I even had an educator share that she was taking a risk today after going to my session a few weeks ago.
That wasn't the only risk I took during this session, I also wore an Avengers Shirt, instead of my usually professional attire, if I want to go all out maybe I will wear the cape and everything next year.
The newest creativity app that I learned about when putting this presentation was Drawp, you have to check it out! You can set up student accounts and link it to each student's family members so they can receive artwork with a simple swipe. (not an advertisement)
Are you taking risks? Are your students encouraged to take risks? Are your teachers encouraged to take risks?
Here are 6 ways to integrate technology into fall activities in the early childhood classroom. Depending on your comfort level using technology in your classroom there should be something for you.
** Remember it is important to always start with an instructional goal for meaningful technology integration. Think about your GOLD Standards or Iowa Core Standards before implementing one of these. If you are familiar with SAMR some of these are substitution but it is a great place to start!
1. Create a StopMotion video that goes along with the book 5 Pumpkin On a Gate. Or describe the life cycles of pumpkin or apple and have the student describe the life cycle,
2. Take the device (iPad, iPhone, Android Tablet) outside to take pictures of fall things in the classroom. Put the objects in a science center along with printed pictures of the objects for students to match to the correct word/1st sound/Number Match.
3. Use ChatterPix Kids to describe the fall items, or tell a story about the object.
5. Check out the Fall/Autumn books on the Epic app/website. (Free for educators!)
Kitten's Autumn By Eugenie Fernandes Ages 2-4 Read To Me book
How Do We Know It Is Fall? By Molly Aloian Ages 7-9
Leaf Jumpers By Carole Gerber Ages 4-6
Fall By Emily C. Dawson Ages 5-7 Read To Me Book
Lost in the Corn Maze By Precious McKenzie Ages 4-6 Read To Me Book
Need to get quick feedback to evaluate the relationships between different factors? Need a scatter plot or a correlation graph, don't have paper, dot stickers, or time? Maybe you aren't meeting face-to-face? Here is a solution!
I saw a colleague use paid software to do this digitally, well at 1:00am last night I had a grandiose idea of how I could use Google Draw to do the same thing, and it is FREE!
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