Alice Keeler designed an awesome Google Slides vocab template for a math scavenger hunt. In her version, students can use their mobile devices to take pictures of visuals that associate with math vocab terms and can demonstrate their understanding of terms through descriptions. I strongly suggest you read her blog post: “Math Continue Reading →
Day two of TK (transitional kindergarten) using GAfE, and the kids were already in spreadsheets! Credit for that fact goes to the EdTech specialist and spreadsheet queen, Alice Keeler. She was so curious about what the kids could do in Google Sheets and passed along her Pixel Art template. We were Continue Reading →
Classification is a DOK (depth of knowledge) level two skill. My transitional kindergartners had multiple opportunities to practice sorting with different concepts: animals that fly vs. animals that stay in the water, letters vs. words, etc. Through collaborating with Alice Keeler, EdTech Specialist who promotes critical thinking in all learning tasks, we came Continue Reading →
At one point in the school year, my transitional kindergarten students expressed an interest maps. Some kids came to school with hand drawn maps. They were excited about the fact that we were following a map when we did a school wide “snake” through the campus the day after open house. Continue Reading →
A skill that my transitional kindergartners practiced frequently was counting objects and corresponding them with numerals. TK’s first task in Google Slides was inserting shapes onto slides to represent numbers. Click here for the Numbers 1-10 template The template includes numbers 1-10. You will find that the numbers are “fixed” onto Continue Reading →
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 →