Category Archives: Kindergarten
CovaisTech Roundup Episode 2!
Episode 2! In this episode I talk about 3D printing, the Hour of Code and literacy activities on the iPad.
Links to what I talk about:
3D Cell lesson
Hour of Code
Puppet EDU
Kindergarten Measuring with Nonstandard Units
Kindergarten students at Trevvett Elementary have been learning about bears and hibernation in science (SOLK.6,K.7) and about measurement in math (SOLK.10). Today students in Ms. Sharpe’s class used ABCYa!Paint to draw a bear and measure it with nonstandard units. First we reviewed how to click and drag to paint, then the students clicked the paintbrush,…
Kindergarten Gingerbread Men
Kindergarten students in Ms. Sharpe’s class at Trevvett Elementary have been reading The Little Gingerbread Man and other gingerbread stories this week. Today I showed them how they can make their own gingerbread men using this website. Kindergarten students are used to using their fingers on the iPads, but in order to prepare them for…
Hour of Code – December 5th – 11th!
The Hour of Code week is coming up December 5 – 11! The hope is you take one hour out of that week to do a coding activity. A ton of activities can be found on Code.org’s Hour of Code page. The hour of code Continue reading
Fall Facts
The students in Ms. Long’s 1st grade class at Davis have been learning all about fall and the effect that the change of season has on plants, animals, and people. Today they used ChatterPix Kids to create video clips. I … Continue reading → Continue reading
Kindergarten Adventures: Sharing with Google Tone
In Mr. Lambert’s kindergarten, we have been working hard practicing logging into the laptops and typing in Pixie. One super smart observation was that all of the keys on the keyboard are capital letters, but when we type, the letters … Continue reading → Continue reading
Kindergarten Adventures: Sharing with Google Tone
In Mr. Lambert’s kindergarten, we have been working hard practicing logging into the laptops and typing in Pixie. One super smart observation was that all of the keys on the keyboard are capital letters, but when we type, the letters … Continue reading → Continue reading
Kindergarten States of Matter
Kindergarten students at Laburnum Elementary have been learning that water occurs in different phases (SOL K.5a): solid, liquid, and gas. Ms. Daniels has been teaching her class that other types of matter occur in different phases as well. So today her students practiced sorting matter into solids, liquids, and gases using ABCYa!Paint. This would be…
Kindergarten Living & Nonliving Things
Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning how to differentiate between living and nonliving things (SOLK.6). Today Ms. Dickey’s class sorted pictures of objects into two groups (SOLK.1d): living and nonliving. First we went to ABCYa!Paint and drew a straight line down the center. ABCYa! Paint has become a more reliable tool for painting…
Kindergarten Living & Nonliving Things
Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning how to differentiate between living and nonliving things (SOLK.6). Today Ms. Dickey’s class sorted pictures of objects into two groups (SOLK.1d): living and nonliving. First we went to ABCYa!Paint and drew a straight line down the center. ABCYa! Paint has become a more reliable tool for painting…
