Literacy Project-Another Digital Story Using Voicethread!

For my literacy project I used Voicethread again to create another digital story. With a few children in my class I have been doing guided reading groups with the focus being some of the most basic skills needed for beginning readers. The first skill we work on in voice-print matching, and touching each word as they read. We have also been working on decoding strategies, strategies they can use when they come to a word they do not know. At my school in Kindergarten they are introduced to decoding icons, so I figured why not introduce them to them now! This digital story introduces each one of the icons as well as the strategy they can use to help them decode an unfamiliar word. Watch and enjoy!

Trying to understand Popplet

I recently attempted the Web 2.0 tool Popplet as well, I did not enjoy this as much as Voki. Does anyone have a trick to help better understand Popplet?

Experimenting with Voki!

First time experimenting with Voki! Anyone could have so much fun with this!

Digital Story-Fruit Kabob Patterns

Below is the digital story that I created with my preschool students. One of the skills on our district wide math assessment is patterning. A child must be able to successfully extend a pattern, and then create their own pattern and be able to explain what kind of pattern they made.  The children in my class used fruit manipulatives to first practice the skill of patterning along with sentence strips which have spaces for them to extend a pattern and blank ones for them to practice creating their own patterns. Once children practiced making patterns using sentence strips and manipulatives they were provided with strawberries and bananas to pattern on kabob sticks. Some children showed mastery creating an AB pattern while others demonstrated the ability to create ABB patterns and AABB patterns. This was an excellent way for me to differentiate and authentically assess their ability to pattern. After the children finished making their kabobs they visited the writing table and wrote about the learning process, how they first practiced using manipulatives then got to pattern using fruit to show their learning. The children in my class enjoyed this learning experience so much!

My Diigo Library

Since having started this class, I have found Diigo to be quite useful! It is a place where I can find the literacy, math, and science ideas and have them right at my fingertips. I used to google everything I needed to find and now all I have to do is look at my Diigo library to find the sites I use and visit most. I find many great ideas that can be implemented right away into my classroom. Let me know if anyone has any other great sites they use that I can add to my library!

Digital Story Rough Draft

Here is my rough draft of my digital story, the pictures are all in order all I have left to do is add the narrations. Let me know what you think so far!

Literacy in Preschool

As we continue to work on the wiki project I have found a number of great ideas and activities to implement in preschool. Many of the ideas I found on pinterest and many others came from following links to literacy sites like prekinders and some free ideas found on teachers pay teachers.

Here is a snapshot of my wiki page!