iPad Cart

On Thursday of last week our class was able to use the library's cart of iPads in our classroom. We learned how to use a few new apps and also got to play some of our favorites. During reading we learned how to play the app Sparkfish and it became a fast favorite. Sparklefish is like a recorded Madlibs. It tells you what kind of word you need and it then records your voice saying the word. For example if it says you need an adjective you tap the microphone and record an adjective word. At the end you can play the story and your child's voice fills in the missing parts of the story. This fits perfectly with our journey's lessons on nouns, verbs, and adjectives. During math we used an app called Show Me. This app allows the students to record their voice and writing. We used this app to help us solve subtraction story problems. After solving the story problems the kids are then able to playback the video hearing their own voice and seeing their own writing. We did this with multiple story problems. The kids even got to make their own story problems. Below you will find a few pictures and a video. We will have the iPad cart again in a few weeks. :)

October, 22nd

We have also used our two iPads during math time. 

Today we took turns using them to record our story problems. :) 

All other students recorded them in our math journals.