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Bloxels, Legos, BB8 were the "BIG" hits!

Showbie Class Discussion - Journal time help

Journal time is often overwhelming at the beginning of school.  When spelling words, so many kids get caught up in "how do you spell?"  I always encourage the kids to try 3 before me:  look on the word wall (also we have a digital word wall in Showbie Word wall Class), try to sound it out, and ask a friend.  For their 4th option of asking me, I came up with using Showbie's Class Discussion feature to help me out a bit. You will notice in the picture- a few of the students spelled words they knew, which is great for confidence.  I also use the voice memo option to answer kids who need to sound out words or look more carefully at the world wall-I simply say "sound it out" or "look at the word wall".  The kids did have a blast with this, fun journal time interaction.

  

Here's a student's journal page:

 

Free October Journal file here

Showbie+GoNoodle+PicCollage App Smash=Sanity

 

My 1st graders and I love our GoNoodle time at the end of the day!  The only negative, for me, was song choice...so I came up with another routine to solve this problem.  

Here's what I did:

1.  I created a class in Showbie called:  GoNoodle - Pick 3

2.  I created an assignment in the class with screen shots of about 10 songs.  I will add new assignments with     different songs  each week for the students choose from.

3.  I have students use Showbie's new feature called Class Discussion to cast 3 votes.

4. We tally the votes to see which songs got the most votes and "voila" your songs have been picked for the day!

This seemed to fit right into our morning iPad work routine and the tally counting was a great math and social studies(voting) lesson at morning carpet time.  And let's not forget, I did not experience the end of the day bombardment of song choices, and really, everyone won because they ALL love ALL of the songs!

Showbie Tool Posters

Check this free file out!

Showbie Tools Posters

Tiny Tap QR Codes to Instructional Videos

Check out these QR Codes (free).  I will use them in my MakerSpace and Centers.  Videos created by Tiny Tap.

Tiny Tap Instructional Videos - QR Codes

PicKids and PicCollage Padlet

Kid instructions for using PicKids and PicCollage

*I'm still having issues viewing vids via Padlet & Thinglink. I'm not sure why, I will try to resolve. If videos are not showing entirety, click view original.  The videos are only playing 2-5 seconds, so view original will allow you view entire video through YouTube.

PicKids Padlet

Created with Padlet

Here's another way to view instructional videos:

PicKids Thinglink

link to a pdf with QR codes connected to these videos...perfect for a makerspace or centers

PicKids Instructional Videos - print, cut, & use

Tiny Tap Padlet

Created with Padlet

it's a snAPP! (app share and presentation)

Created with Padlet

Thinglink on Epic Book Reports

Here's a Thinglink on Epic book Reports.  I app-smashed Showbie, Epic, PicCollage, Green Screen by DoInk, SeeSaw, and of course Thinglink. Click the link below to check out this interactive Thinglink.

Epic Book Report Thinglink

Tiny Tap in our 1st grade classroom

The following video shows how I use Tiny Tap in my 1st grade classroom.

~teacher-student games
~student games
~teacher games

Make sure you check out the links below the video.

my Tiny Tap profile

student game

student-teacher game

Tiny Tap tutorials (YouTube channel)

Allie's 3D game

Jadyn's ABC order game

Epic Oral Book Reports

The kids chose a nonfiction book on Epic.  They read their book and jotted down a few facts about their subject.  Then we created a green screen oral book report.  The kids were responsible to find their picture and they shared it with me for the green screen project via our Showbie Picture class.  We used Green Screen by DoInk.   These turned out really cute and we shared them with our parents on SeeSaw. 

Here is Carsen with his 

"book report" on Cobras.

Showbie + Book Creator + SeeSaw = Happy Moms

Each one of these apps can stand alone and stand tall but they have made themselves compatible for some great possibilities!  Here's one example of what you can do if you app-smash these 3 apps.

Mother's Day Card Directed Drawing via SHOWBIE

Using Showbie, I created a directed drawing for a special Oriental Trading Mother's Day craft

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B02Cjcwobc9cd1VOTS1FbW1JMnM

Google Forms for Pick a Partner

Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

Epic - An activity we did with this wonderful app.

If you are unfamiliar with EPIC, you really need to check it out!  It is completely free for educators.  It is a library FULL of children's books, some are even AR books.   Check it out at getepic.com.   There is also an app-search EPIC. Encouraging parents to subscribe will help EPIC to remain free for teachers.  It is very reasonably priced.  

Cale explains how we did our book reports (paragraphs) using EPIC and the 4-square method.  

Hunter chose a book about Sloths.