Being a Kindergarten class, this fall we have been working on one of our main goals of simply being more familiar with the ipads. Some students know what they're doing but they're many who have little to no screen time at home and are not familiar with ipads. We spent time talking about what the different buttons on the ipads do so they are able to change to volume and manage on their own. We talked about online safety and what to do if you end up somewhere you're not supposed to be. Although our ipads are set-up to lock the screen somehow students could run into a previously opened page and end up getting more into something while trying to exit. After this we tried to open a few applications on our own and practiced taking pictures of different shapes around our classroom. This was an interesting task as again, some were very familiar and some were very new to it. Students who were newer to ipads were paired with more familiar students so they were able to critiques each others photos and fiddle with what needed to change, e.g. - hold the photo still, stand back, etc. We are continuing to make books together and read many that the other teachers in the project have made which has been very helpful. We are also using them to work on our French letters the sounds that they make and literacy through different applications.
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Over the next two weeks as we get back into the swing of things I plan on using the iPad as an assessment tool. We are looking at words such as: devant, derriere, sous, sur etc. We will be creating aquariums out of shoe boxes and little fish puppets to place within the aquarium. The idea is that the students will then take their puppets and place them in a spot "a cote de" and snap a picture of it with their iPads, they will then record their voices stating where their fish is located. We will also look at: Au debut, apres, et finalment which they will be encouraged to use as well. As the class is now pretty familiar with Book Creator we will probably be using this app.
We are also starting a coding unit, and tying it in with our the core competencies and science and tech. Eventually I would like to get them started using Scratch, but I am also curious to hear if anyone else has explored coding apps for kids? |
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May 2018
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