Staying Up To Speed with the Latest Resources
As you may have seen on the home page , my most current resources have been developed in collaboration with Jessica Twomey and Innovating Play. This Templates Page holds information and links to where you can find our latest resources, in addition to my original templates and activities.
1. Google Apps for Littles and Innovating Play Books
We definitely consider these two books to be siblings! Google Apps for Littles sets the foundation and shares with the world what Littles CAN do with Google Apps. Innovating Play builds on ideas and connections from the Littles book, and shares more about reimagining learning through meaningful tech integration. Read more on our Book Info Page.
2. Innovating Play Store
Jessica and I are sharing our newest resources on our Innovating Play Teachers Pay Teachers store. We encourage you to follow us there, so that you get notified when new items hit our store!
These are the categories that we are adding new resources to. Click on a category image to learn more.
3. Innovating Play Site
Jessica and I shared about our early collaborative experiences on innovatingplay.world. We also have our own Templates page there with free resources we offer.
4. Social Media Platforms
Original Templates and Activities
Below are among my first resources and ideas from when I began exploring possibilities for tech integration with Littles.
Here you can find templates that I have created or have generated through collaboration with others.| Template URL | Description | Blog Post |
|---|---|---|
| christinepinto.com/colorwords | Students insert images to correspond with colors on slides | Identifying Color Words |
| christinepinto.com/graphingbears | Students graph counting bears results via this conditional formatted spreadsheet | Graphing in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/allaboutmeslides | Students insert images to correspond with sentence frames to express preferences | Capturing Memories in Slides |
| christinepinto.com/numberslides | Students insert shapes or a picture to represent a number | Number Sense in Google Slides |
| christinepinto.com/tenframeslides | Students insert shapes into ten frames | Number Sense in Google Slides |
| christinepinto.com/imagineanddesign | Students click and drag clip art onto a grid to design a map, city, game, etc. | Imagine and Design in Google Sheets |
| tinyurl.com/slidesdragandsort | Students sort shapes by shape, color, or size. Created by Alice Keeler. | Sorting Shapes in Google Slides |
| christinepinto.com/shapescavengerhunt | Students insert pictures of shapes in their environment and describe the images and their relations to the shape. | Alice Keeler’s Vocab Template – Modify it for Littles |
| christinepinto.com/iseecollaborativeslides | Students work collaboratively to demonstrate understanding of number sense and spelling color words. | Collaborative Slides in Small Groups |
| christinepinto.com/logincardspreadsheet | Put color tape on keyboard rows, and use this login card template to align with the colored tape. | Colored Tape on Rows of the Keyboard |
| christinepinto.com/flyingbirds | Students practice identifying more and fewer groups. | Flying Birds |
| christinepinto.com/buddies | When teaming up with buddies, students can work collaboratively within these Slides to get to know each other. | Getting to Know Our Buddies Template |
| christinepinto.com/secretmessage | (My Sample) I used these slides and recorded over them, for students to listen via YouTube to plot letters on a number line to create a message. | Secret Message – Learning About Number Lines & YouTube Videos |
| christinepinto.com/readingrecordings | Students use Google Slides to organize and link to their reading recordings. | Reading Recordings |
| christinepinto.com/dots | Students practice reading simple sentence and insert dots to create a visual for the slides. | I See Dots (no blog) |
| christinepinto.com/leavesonmytree | Students place leaves on a tree via Drawing in Google Sheets. They graph their results and complete sentences to correspond with their data. | Create and Graph in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/weathergraphing | As a whole class, the weather can be charted daily and organized monthly to spark discussions about weather patterns over time | Weather Graphing |
| christinepinto.com/ornamentsonmytree | In Google Sheets, students manipulate a Google Drawing by putting ornaments on a Christmas tree. They graph their results. | Create and Graph in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/winterscenegraph | In Google Sheets students manipulate a Google Drawing by putting snowflakes and winter animals into a snowy scene. They graph their results and create equations to support their data. | Create and Graph in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/fishbowl | In Google Sheets students manipulate a Google Drawing by putting different colored fish into a fish bowl. They graph their results and create equations to support their data. This activity can go along with Dr. Seuss’ “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” book. | Create and Graph in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/leprechaunscene | In Google Sheets students manipulate a Google Drawing and create a leprechaun scene. They graph their results and create equations to support their data. | Create and Graph in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/scatteredeggs | In Google Sheets students manipulate a Google Drawing by scattering eggs on a field. They graph their results and create equations to support their data. | Create and Graph in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/modelsandequations | 4 activities in one spreadsheet! Students use 2-3 different colors to fill cells to make 5 in a five frame or 10 in a ten frame. Students can also make arrays of 20. In all the activities, students create equations to go with their models, and use formulas to check their answers. | Models and Equations in Google Sheets |
| christinepinto.com/candyland | Use this template to have students practice learning goals while playing Candy Land. CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words are included. Check out the blog post to see how to edit them. | Editable Candy Land Cards |
| christinepinto.com/buildasundae | In Google Docs, students manipulate a Google Drawing that includes items to build a sundae. They break down their steps in a flow chart, and type sentences to go along with the steps it took to build their sundae. | |
| christinepinto.com/collaborativefeelings | Kids insert slides into a collaborative presentation and take snapshots to capture facial expressions that go along with feelings. | Our Many Colored Feelings: Collaborative Slides |