Category Archives: Kindergarten

Kindergarten Seasons Animations

Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about Earth patterns, cycles, and seasons (SOL K.9 & K.10), so today Ms. Feldman’s class created animations to show how trees change through the seasons. We used ABCYa! Animate to create the animations. On the first frame, students painted a line across the bottom for the ground…

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Kindergarten Shadows Animations

Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about shadows (SOLK.8) so today Ms. Dunkum’s class created shadows animations using ABCYa!Animate. Kindergarten students have a generic login, so instead of sharing the link with them, we had to type it in manually for each one. While we were doing that we discussed shadows: what causes…

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Kindergarten Measurement

Kindergarten students at Holladay Elementary have been learning about measurement with nonstandard units (SOLK.10) and they’ve been studying money (SOLK.7). Today students in Ms. Silber’s class used coins to measure a snake they drew. This was their first lesson with Pixie, and since many kindergarten students have a hard time using the computer track pad,…

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Kindergarten Rhyming Words

Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about rhyming words (K.4b) so today in Ms. Dunkum’s class we creating pictures of rhyming words using Pixie. This was their first lesson with the computers, so we logged in using a generic kindergarten login. I showed the students how to open Pixie by clicking the Start…

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Kindergarten Rhyming Words

Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about rhyming words (K.4b) so today in Ms. Dunkum’s class we creating pictures of rhyming words using Pixie. This was their first lesson with the computers, so we logged in using a generic kindergarten login. I showed the students how to open Pixie by clicking the Start…

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Graphing With ChatterPix

Today I worked with the kindergarten classes at Kaechele Elementary.  We worked with picture graphs and ChatterPix and it was great!  I used some pictures from an amazing ITRT that I work with, Julie Smith!  She has them posted here.  We used the November pictures so we could talk about Fall and Thanksgiving…I mean who …

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Kindergarten Insect Selfies

Today in Mrs. Rademacher’s kindergarten class at Kaechele Elementary we turned ourselves into insects!  The students had just finished learning all about insects so we used PicMix to have a little fun.  Mrs. Rademacher gathered a handful of pictures for the students to use and put them in a Google folder.  I made a QR …

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#TechTakeout Gets Creative At Carver!

Today the #TechTakeout crew went over to Carver Elementary to work with some amazing kindergarten students and teachers! We had a blast working on some Math skills on both iPads and computers. As a group we made sure to focus on particular skills that the students had trouble with throughout the year. Even though we …

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Bringing the Creativity to Carver

Today the #TechTakeout crew went over to Carver Elementary to work with some amazing kindergarten students and teachers! We had a blast working on some Math skills on both iPads and computers. As a group we made sure to focus on particular skills that the Continue reading

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Kindergarten Spring Math Pictures

Now that winter is finally over, Kindergarteners at Holladay have been learning about the plants and animals of spring (SOLK.9). They’ve also been learning how to find one more or one less in math (SOLK.4b). So today students in Ms. Green’s class created spring math pictures using ABCYa!Paint. First we helped them log into Google […] Continue reading

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