The student’s in Mrs. King’s kindergarten class at Longan have been working on 1-1 correspondence and counting up to 10. For this activity, students used crayons that were already at their table to count out a certain number of crayons. We started at 1 and worked our way up to 10 throughout the 4 rotations. Students used Book Creator on the iPads to take a picture of a set of crayons. Next they used the pen tool to write the number that represented the number of crayons in the photo. Finally, students used the recording feature to say how many crayons they had. They continued these steps for the next couple pages so that by the time the rotations were over, we had a complete counting book from 1-10. It was a little repetitive on each page, but that helped the students learn the steps. They picked up on these skills quickly and will be able to use Book Creator for a similar project in the near future.

In our last lesson, the Kindergarten students used Seesaw for a shape hunt. For this lesson, I showed the teacher how she could send these projects straight from Book Creator to the Seesaw app. Since multiple students worked on one book, we were able to select all of the group members in Seesaw and add the same book to each of their folders. Seesaw also has a share option in which you are able to get an embed code to post the finished video to your blog. Check out one of the great work samples from today: