The end of the school year was nearing and open house was around the corner. I wondered to myself, What is something my kids can create and that will capture their memories in transitional kindergarten? Then it dawned on me……A memory book in Google Slides! The kids were ecstatic when I demoed Continue Reading →
Little kids CAN use spreadsheets. My transitional kindergarten students blew my mind when they made bar graphs to represent the totals of their counting bears in Google Sheets. Alice Keeler, THE spreadsheet queen and EdTech specialist, and I brainstormed about ways littles could use spreadsheets. Alice formatted a spreadsheet template that was appropriate for my students to use. Her Continue Reading →
Children begin to recognize colors at a young age. My transitional kindergarten students were learning to identify color words by sight. To support that learning objective of identifying high frequency words, I created a template for my students to use on Google Slides where they can insert pictures to correspond with Continue Reading →
The steps for inserting an image onto a slide are simple. The steps are so simple that on the first day that my students were inserting pictures, they picked up on the pattern quickly and acquired a new digital skill. Modeling and breaking down the task into kid friendly steps is Continue Reading →