Numbers and Shapes

Today the children used Explain Everything during our Maths lesson. They practised using the shape and colour tools to make number patterns on a dice. They had to manipulate the shapes to get the correct size and then ensure that their dots could fit into that square. It was great to see the children fully engaged in their task and supporting each other and then sharing their work on the Apple T.V.
Thanks to Miss Rapold for sharing this idea with me.

Writing

My focus for the last week was for children to be able to take a photo, lock it down, draw four lines, lock that down and copy the story off the board. Some children were quite successful and are now adding a page and working at writing a simple sentence independently.

This is Kharizma's work.
This story was co- constructed by the children and teacher.

Kharizma went on working on her second page and wrote her own sentence with very little support.
She found the word " mangu- which means black in Maori" all by herself.

My next focus will be  to work on using Explain Everything, reading activities which will be more group orientated.

Inquiry 2015

How to create independent iPad learning activities for high cognitive engagement for Year 1's?

This is my first time teaching using one on one devices in my classroom. It  going to be a very busy and exciting year but we're taking it step by step with the juniors. Mrs. George comes once a week to assist us in using our iPads and we have lots of support from our colleagues.

We are presently using the Explain Everything app and learning to use the tools within this app. We started by taking photo's of our friends,  photo's around our school and now photo's of things in our classroom. 

We can't wait for Mrs. George to come in and teach us how to use a stylus and create pages within Explain Everything.