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Helping our younger learners care for the iPads
Teaching our younger learners how to care for their iPad is so important. We need to instill good habits in them right from the moment they begin working with digital devices. This helps them develop…
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"Can Do" Review Poetry Journal
"We Can Do it!" My ELL early learners love to chant this positive mantra daily in my classroom. We believe that we Can Do any kind of learning tasks presented by the teacher. In this "Can Do" Review …
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Dear Zoo mark making Early Years
I made this simple activity for Nursery students to use their stylus to join the dots to create an enclosure for their zoo animals. I also recorded their voices/thoughts. * great for their physical…
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App Prototyping with Early Learners: A Guided Journal
App Prototyping has always been a hugely popular project for my older elementary students. The collaboration, problem solving, brainstorming, prototyping - well, it's an activity that just checks all…
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Level Up Reader’s Theater
Take Reader’s Theater to the next level by utilizing GarageBand. Reader’s Theater is an excellent way for students to practice fluency, prosody, and accuracy. Students can create different readers by…
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Kindergarten Clips
Kindergarten students learn about a new letter each week. They are constantly looking for different ways to practice the letters and what sounds they make. We used Clips to go on a scavenger hunt aro…
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Getting Creative in the Classroom - Back to School Series
The Back to School Series for 2023 is upon us 🙌🏻🙌🏻 I was so excited to be asked to take part in this program for 2023, especially alongside the uber-talented Mandy Dempsey, Chantelle Sansness and…
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Creating Visual Vocabulary for Early Childhood students—EXPLORE
As my examples for the Explore section of my portfolio, I chose the topic of creating Visual Vocabulary for my students who are still in the early stages of linguistic development. The first lesson …
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Animal Patterns in Nursery
I learnt how to use the shapes with live camera on Keynote on Twitter from @PaulHamilton8. This activity was used in Nursery when learning about Jungle and shapes and patterns. I am attaching the Key…
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FaceTime the Zoo
I made this Keynote using the live cameras for the Early Years children to pretend that they are calling the zoo. This is to encourage talk and ideas and using the vocabulary from the book.
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‘We’re Going on a Shape Hunt’ - Using Clips Scaffolds in an Early Years Classroom
Clips would have to be one of my most favourite apps to use with early learners (a close second after Camera 📷 of course!). It is often a forgotten app - one that you might spot on your home screen …
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Scaffolding Learning for Young Learners in Numbers
Numbers is a great tool for scaffolding learning experiences, investigations and inquiry for young learners and provides some great tools to ensure all learners can access content and demonstrate the…
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Sunny day or rainy day? Every day is World Creativity Day!
Rainbow and Raindrop are two free activity books with creative computing learning for indoors and outdoors, no matter the weather! Perfect for World Creativity Day, these books explore the natural wo…
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Supporting Early Literacy with Numbers Templates.
Throughout the many years of my early childhood teaching career, one thing has been constant, children need to know the names of the letters of the alphabet. Knowing the name of each individual lette…
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Early Learners Celebrate Earth Day with Oliver Jeffers
Earth Day has marked our calendars for 54 years now. Back in 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the impact of 150 years of industrial development. Over 50 years later, the campai…
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Early Ed Sight Words Workbook English
Hi friends! I created a review workbook for my teachers that involve photography, markup, and voice recording for their sight words. Feel free to use, share, or manipulate! There is also a teacher gu…
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Hear Me Grow: Fluency Portfolio
Fluency is key in learning to read and so hard to track and show growth. Using the record audio feature in Keynote, I created a digital portfolio for students to record themselves reading in order to…
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Leading iPad Programs in Primary- Pages Portfolio
In 2022 I led a workshop on Leading iPad Programs in Primary, which drew together the things I've learnt about leadership in this space so far in my career. The accompanying portfolio draws together …
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Fine Motor Collage in Keynote - Easter Craft
Support the development of fine motor skills in our young learners by giving them creative and meaningful ways to practise. This is just one example of an activity you could get young learners to do…
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PreK-Early Elementary Technology Based Stations
Need some extra station ideas for the end of the year? Here are some sample stations that implement apple products and apps that work well with iPad devices. ✌🏻💜🍎
