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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

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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

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