Below is an animation modeling how to be 'Caring', one of the PYP Learner Profiles that students should demonstrate. Watch the animation then listen to one of my students's prediction that follows of the idea behind the story.
Stick figures are becoming a popular way to create fun, animated media to communicate ideas or tell stories. Year 4 students enjoyed creating short stories using Pivot Stick Figure Animator. We had even more fun watching the stories and trying to predict the story or idea or lesson taught by each animation. After our prediction, the creator of the animation told us whether we were right or not, then told us their version of the story. Below is an animation modeling how to be 'Caring', one of the PYP Learner Profiles that students should demonstrate. Watch the animation then listen to one of my students's prediction that follows of the idea behind the story. Narration for the animation above.
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We read the interactive iPad story 'The Purple Frog". Students are now used to reading interactive stories that they stay focused on the story. We talked about the story afterwards and students knew they needed to be open minded and accept everyone for who they are. I used the story to discussed how friends should behave in the classroom, while we are learning. My questions were 'How should friends behave when someone is talking in class? Should they be talking, laughing with each other?' Students thought about it and said friends should only talk when it is time to talk. If they needed to say something while we were learning they would raise their hands for a turn to speak. I like how we used this story to talk about classroom situations. We read the Friendly Shapes iPad story developed by Tab Table Ltd. This was a good revision tool for shapes and colors. We also had an opportunity to help a student who was absent when students learned about shapes identify the different shapes. Students particularly liked the activity at the end of the story practicing their dragging skills as they had to fit all shapes in their correct places. We then had lots of fun solving tangrams to build a truck tractor and a rocket among other things. We used the Toy Tangrams iPad app developed by Tab Table Ltd. We definitely flexed our problem solving skills. I would definitely recommend these two apps for Kindergartners to practice telling their shapes. After learning about life cycles, Year 1 students read a book about the life cycle of a frog. We had fun creating content for other learners, explaining the life cycle of a frog. We used the Educreations iPad app to record ourselves solving a puzzle (putting a few pictures of the life cycle in their correct order) and explaining the different stages in our own words. We learned the importance to speak louder so that the iPad could pick up our voices. See our class recording below. We look forward to using Educreations again to explain concepts for other learners.
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