Year 2 students practiced sentence construction using the Jumbled sentences 1 free app, one for a series. Through trial and error, students tried out different sentences till they got the correct ones. Then, someone figured there would always be a clue in the middle of the circling words. We will explore Jumbled Sentences 2 and more soon!
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Year 5 students flexed their problem solving skills by playing the Pirate Treasure Hunt game, a free iPad app. Students were required to solve eight problems to find the hidden treasure. The whole class came alive as they tried to come up with solutions using their math and literacy skills. Problem solving skills and decision making is one of the strands we use to assess students. The app allows students to gain confidence to solve more complex problems. 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.
Kindergarten students made some artifacts in their Art class. Their artifacts had two main purposes. We asked them to explain how they made their artifacts and what they would be used for. They had to learn to speak for an audience using the Pixntell iPad App. Year 3 students wrote stories to celebrate 100 days in school. We read an interactive story on the iPad and discussed how we could also create our own. We used the Pixntell iPad App to create a digital story to read to the younger students in our school. During their Sharing The Planet unit, Kindergarten students explored different kinds of animals using Spot The Farm Animal, an iPad app. We thoroughly enjoyed finding animals and imitating the sounds they make, hearing their true sounds from the app made kindergartners even excited. It was interesting to realise some animals are called different names in different parts of the world. Later we looked at Spot the Jungle Animal to explore other kinds of animals and students could not stop talking about their
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