iPads for Kindergarteners of all Backgrounds and Needs
My students need 3 Ipads in order to participate in new technology and applications at our school. They are ready to learn but cannot access various apps without ipads.
My students come to school ready to learn! They are energetic children between 4-6yrs who learn in many ways! Technology is one of the ways in which they are happily motivated. My class of 23 students come from various ethnic and economic backgrounds. They are also a large range of academic needs.
They love all things interactive and love to sing and have fun!
They are amazed and inspired by technology. My students also are at a developmental stage where they need to be able to easily see how things work through animations and videos as well as materials. The range of developmental levels of the students in my classroom is quite vast and I believe that an iPad learning stations would allow me to reach so many levels in a multitude of ways! Some students need the extra practice that can be achieved using iPads. They can also work independently on a large variety of skills.
My Project
Our classroom uses learning centers whenever possible. We use Daily 5 for literacy instruction and I have math learning stations daily. Small groups are a great way to individualize instruction, help set positive role models emerging skills, and build confidence! Our classroom has NO iPads for student use. By having 3 iPads, I could establish an iPad learning center for both literacy and math times, as well as skill building enrichment or intervention throughout the day. Kids can build phonemic awareness skills, manipulate sounds, practice letter identification, read stories, answer questions, and more during literacy times. In math stations, students can use a variety of iPad apps to build math skills such as building number sense, identify and build shapes, and build place value understanding through composing and decomposing numbers. Addition and subtraction practice to build fluency is yet another of the many possible ways we could use an iPad in our room!
Increasing the use of technology in our classroom with an iPad stations will help spark the interest of my little learners!
It opens up a range of possibilities for interactive instruction in all subject areas, as well as providing all children another opportunity to experience success by learning at their own pace!
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