Available on Amazon The Google Apps For Littles book is PUBLISHED! The book released in the heart of the school year, and it has taken me awhile to wrap my head around the fact that IT IS ACTUALLY OUT THERE IN THE WORLD! It wasn’t until a week after the Continue Reading →
Cross Posted from innovatingplay.world Written By Christine Pinto and Jessica Twomey Magical things can happen when learners come together and play! Play holds the power to make connections, share ideas, explore possibilities, and discover each other. Something magical happened when the #GAfE4Littles (Google Apps for Littles) community came together to Continue Reading →
You would think by me writing a post involving major league baseball, that I keep up with the stats and the game. I don’t. 🙂 However, I was surprised to learn about a gesture that was made by one of the Astro players (Gurriel) after hitting a home run off Continue Reading →
Thinking maps are helpful when organizing and elaborating ideas. In my classroom I like to put our alphabet thinking maps along the perimeter of the room, but all the other ones go into ONE Google Slides presentation. (Well, technically I took pictures of the alphabet thinking maps and put them Continue Reading →
This year my school, along with others in the district, are fully integrating The Leader in Me process for character education and building up our kids to be leaders. The Leader in Me revolves around 7 Habits, they are: Be Proactive Begin with the End in Mind Put First Things Continue Reading →
This is a guest post by a kindergarten teacher who frequently inspires me, Jessica Twomey. She shares what a day of innovating play looks like in her classroom, the tools her students use, along with ideas for getting started. What does innovating play look like in the classroom? There is Continue Reading →
Recently, my buddy Cori Orlando, hit me up with an idea about a Number of the Day activity, where kids represent a number in different ways. She visualizes the activity being something the kids can do in class regularly. We put our heads together and designed a spreadsheet activity together. Continue Reading →
I binge read Jo Boaler’s Mathematical Mindsets within a few days. I literally sat for hours on end reading this book. Considering I hardly take the time to sit and read for pleasure, this was huge for me. Jo Boaler is a Stanford professor who has written seven books and several research Continue Reading →
Link to the infographic in Google Drawing. Getting your Littles started with Google Apps is super exciting! I will be integrating Google Apps with my third class of Littles, and by now have developed a mental checklist of things I need to make sure we are ready to roll once Continue Reading →
Those of us who work with Littles know that they are still learning how to identify letters and sounds, let alone how to read words. In Google Classroom teachers title their assignments, but how are the Littles supposed to read it? I use Alice Keeler’s hashtag system while titling assignments. Her approach Continue Reading →