Google Drawings to Seesaw Activities
And here is a link to the snowgirl activity , if you're interested!
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Gingerbread Men in PicCollage Kids
This was such a fun, simple way to introduce students (and teachers!) to PicCollage Kids , and the concept of setting an image as a background and having students complete a project. You could either send students an image (via Seesaw or AirDrop), or let them use the web search tool in PicCollage to find a blank gingerbread man template. I like the idea of using Seesaw Activities to distribute the image to students, plus give them directions. Teachers can give students audio AND visual directions on how to complete the task in PicCollage, then upload to Seesaw under Activities & it will be organized if you tag a skill or folder. I also like that when using Activities, I get the grid view where I can see which students have completed the task, and which I'm still waiting on. Here's what you'll see: Here's what they see: To access this Seesaw activity and add to your own library, click here. Once the image is on the iPads, students open PicCollage Kids and set the g...
Getting Started with Epic! Books
The FREE app Epic! is an amazing resource for classrooms, providing students with access to thousands of books. Using this app is so easy, but it does take a little initial set up. It's important to set up an account as an EDUCATOR, so it's free. I also recommend setting up student profiles. It only takes a few minutes, and it allows each student to save their favorite books and preferences, as well as you to track their progress and save their reading logs. Keep reading to see how to get started. Begin by creating an account for yourself. To set up your account, go to www.getepic.com and choose Educators . You'll be prompted to create a free educator account. Once your account is created, sign in and go to your Dashboard. Here is where you can add student profiles. Just click "create profile" and enter your students' names. I don't set a pin, as I want them to login easily, but you could certainly set a security pin if you felt this was necessary in ...
Christmas Books with Green Screen Awesomeness
This project was so much fun! Inspired by Brigitte Hollohan , we used the DoInk Green Screen app ($2.99) to take photos of each student in Mrs. Parisien's first grade in front of an image of Santa in the night sky. We used this image, but you could use any you like. It would be really fun to let students make their own using the Make a Scene: Christmas app ($2.99). Once the pictures were taken, we could have done any number of things with them! Print them for cute Christmas cards or gifts, add to Seesaw and type or tell their story, create a collage in PicCollage Kids ... really the possibilities are endless! We decided to have each student write a Dear Santa letter using this cute FREE template , then load all the photos into Book Creator app, and have students read their "Dear Santa" letters onto each page. It easily shared to Seesaw, and turned out absolutely adorable!
Hour of Code Stations
Loved helping with Hour of Code stations in Mrs. Bishop's 1st grade. Students were split into groups of 3-4 and participated in each of these activities. The combination of hands-on, "unplugged" activities, plus coding on devices, was amazing. The transfer of skills was apparent, and the students' perseverance and stamina for creating code and problem solving was phenomenal. Read more to see the activities the students participated in! 1. Osmo Coding 2. Daisy the Dinosaur FREE app 3. code.org 4. ThinkFun Rocket Turtles game 5. Hopscotch Coding from Teach Outside the Box Brooke Brown from Teach Outside the Box has some amazing resources for coding with little kids on her blog. Check it out here ! I also really loved Seesaw's webinar for K-2 students, How Do You Build An App. Check it out below:
Christmas Tree Apps
There are several fun, free Christmas tree apps for your iPad that allow students to be creative and decorate their own Christmas trees. Use these apps for math problems: Have them create arrays or simple equations on the trees using the ornaments, then put into Seesaw or another app to annotate, solve and explain their thinking. You could also have them create illustrations for stories and upload to apps such as Seesaw, Shadow Puppet Edu , or Book Creator , where they can add text and voice.
