Our classroom has been lucky enough to have 3 iPads to use throughout the year, given to us by the Foundation for Education through a grant application. We use them during our Daily 5 and Math Workshop rotations to listen to stories, practice basic phonemic awareness and math skills, and other more complex Kindergarten skills. One of my favorite ways we use the iPads is for practicing oral storytelling. Through the use of an app called Felt Board, the students create a picture and tell a story to go along with it. Their imaginations just amaze me! While I don't have the oral stories to go along with these pictures, I still wanted to share a few of these masterpieces with you and let you make up your own story to go with it :).
At the end of April, the Kindergarten classes went on a field trip to Prairieland Dairy and the Lincoln Children's Zoo. We got to see how our milk begins on the farm and makes its way to our lunch trays. We also got to enjoy a glass of milk and discovered that there is no such thing as a chocolate cow! At the zoo we were able to see many different animals, even some new ones! Mrs. Flohr and a couple of students got to hold one of the flying squirrels and have it glide out of our hands and into the pocket of one of the zookeepers! February Publishing PartyWe enjoyed sharing our stories in the Author's Chair with our own class and a week later, we were asked by the fifth graders of Mrs. Micek's room (where Ms. Callahan was filling in as a long-term sub) to join their Publishing Party as well. It was fun to have two separate audiences and to see what our writing might look like in the future. Dr. Seuss Self-PortraitsSilly Socks for World Down Syndrome DayDonuts with DadsKindergarten Art
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May 2015
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