Showing posts with label Thing Link. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thing Link. Show all posts

Friday, October 23, 2015

Our Alphabet Linking Chart!



Kindergarten students have learned all about the Alphabet linking chart. This tool helps us remember our letters and sounds for reading and writing. You have probably seen it in you child's homework folder.

Each class worked very hard to make their own linking chart for the classroom.
Students learned how to write each letter using the correct steps then added them to the chart. They colored the linking chart pictures and wrote the words too.

We took a picture of our chart and made it interactive using iPads and a few cool apps. 
(Thing Link and Shadow Puppet)
Students learned to use the iPad camera tool and made a movie for each letter! Every student helped build a letter with materials found in our classroom and took a picture with the iPad. We also had fun searching for real objects to go with the letters.
(Except for Oo, we couldn't find an octopus at school.)

Just click or tap on each play button to see our work.






Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Our Community

What do you know about Port Aransas? What makes our town special? What landforms are in our town? What jobs are in our community? What are maps?
These are just some of the questions students answered in our study of Port Aransas.

 Check out our interactive town map to see what else we learned.



Students really enjoyed using Goggle Earth to explore and take pictures of our town.

Student quotes about Google Earth:
"This is better than Mine Craft!"
"I'm totally getting this game when I get home!"

Kindergarten students did their own research with a partner to learn about our community workers. They reported their findings using their choice of apps from a menu.

We are also proud of our school community!