Exciting New STEM Technology For Your Classroom!

Recently I was contacted by ReTrak, a tech accessories company, about their Utopia 360 Augmented and Virtual Reality Bundles. Since I'm always looking for new STEM resources for my classroom, I agreed to give an honest review of their product here on my blog in exchange for a free sample.

First up was the 4D+ Dinosaur Experience. My 4 year old, Sullivan, LOVES dinosaurs, so we just had to take a look at this pack!

 It comes with a VR headset and a deck of augmented reality flashcards. 

The app is free to download, you just input the code that comes with the cards to use it! The neat thing is that once you download the app and enter your code, the device does NOT need to be hooked up to wi-fi to work! This means that if you get some old iphones or android phones donated to your classroom, you can use them without having to log them into your school's wi-fi (I know that can be an issue at some schools!). I just downloaded the app at home on my old iphone and then used it offline at school! NOTE: you may have to remove protective cases. I have a large Otterbox case on my own iPhone and it was too big to fit into the headset, which is why I dug out my old iPhone.

You can also use the app and cards without the headset, if you have an Ipad or tablet. The advantage of going that route would be that students could share the device, thus allowing more than one child to have a turn at a time. I still love the headset for the immersion quality (Sully was hilarious to watch as he tried to reach out and "pet" the dinosaurs!) but in a classroom setting, the iPads might be a better option, simply because setting up and putting on the headset is really something an adult has to help with, whereas students should be able to manage the iPad app independently.

Here's Sullivan interacting with the iPad app. It really is as simple as opening the app and placing a card in front of the camera!

Next up we tried out the 4D+ Animal Alphabet Zoo:

 

Again, the pack comes with the headset and cards, but the neat thing is that you can purchase the cards separately as well, so if you buy one set, you can use the headset with  different packs of cards! As you can see, Sullivan gave it a thumbs up!

What I LOVED about these cards is that not only do they show an animal for each letter, there are also interactive food cards. If you place the correct food card next to the animal, it will move to the food card and 'eat".  Here's a video of the Queen Bee and flower cards.

So not only can you use these cards in your alphabet lessons - each card has a large uppercase letter on the back, as well as the animal picture, letter and animal name on the front - but you can also use them as a science lesson as you discuss the eating habits of different animals! As you can see in this next video, Sullivan knew that horses eat hay, but he didn't know that hay is dried grass!

These packs (along with another one for Space!) are available at Amazon (affiliate links provided above) and also at Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Brookstone and Staples. I have to say that the quality of the app is top notch - using the cards with the iPad was simple and fun for Sullivan. The headset was a bit trickier to use, and we had to adjust it to make sure it wasn't blurry. Its not a high-end VR headset, but it doesn't have a high-end price tag either! Sullivan liked it well enough, but complained that his eyes were tired after about 15 minutes of sustained use. I tried it myself (and of course my older kids had to try it out too!) and we all agreed that for limited use it was fine, but sustained use of the headset (15+ minutes) did start to cause eye strain. Luckily, using the iPad solves that issue and honestly, with pre-k and K students, I think their attention would wane faster than their eyes would strain, so it wouldn't be an issue.

Overall, I think these packs are a fun STEM addition to any classroom! Not only would they expose your students to new technology, the Animal Alphabet set can also reinforce letters/sounds while the Dinosaur set also shows the dinosaur bones, which could be a great lead in to a unit on Paleontology! 

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Incorporating STEM in Kindergarten

STEM Ideas for Kindergarten using Nursery Rhymes

I think my most popular session at SDE's I Teach K was my "S.T.E.A.M.ing Through Nursery Rhymes"! It's such a hot topic right now, but there isn't a whole lot out there for making it truly accessible in kindergarten. Today I'm going to share a little bit of that session with you!

 

One of my favorite ways to incorporate technology into teaching nursery rhymes is by using a Green Screen app!  I use Green Screen by Do Ink on my iPhone, it's $2.99 in the App store. Here's a quick clip of my son, Sullivan, reciting Baa Baa Black Sheep.

I simply hung a piece of green felt on my wall and googled a picture of a sheep in a field. Sully was totally not into being filmed (I bribed him with Dum Dums, if you look he has two fistfuls!), he hates the flash on my camera so even when I promise him it won't flash he tends to look away anyways. However, once he saw the finished product with the sheep behind him he was enthralled! He wanted to do it again and again and kept asking to do different rhymes to see what would pop up behind him! It works the same with students! They LOVE seeing themselves on screen, and putting together some video clips of students reciting nursery rhymes is a great way to start an Open House or Parent Teacher Conferences!

Engineering challenges can be hard in Kindergarten! Their little fingers may have difficulties manipulating the materials, so often we call in our 5th grade friends for help. However, I like to start the year with a challenge they can complete on their own so they have some experience before calling in older helpers. I find this gives them more confidence in their ideas, so its not so much the 5th graders leading the challenge as being directed by the Kinders. One of the easiest engineering challenges for Kinders is this Building a Tuffet challenge for the Little Miss Muffet rhyme.

This challenge requires just some paper towel rolls, tape, glue and construction paper, along with a doll or two to play Miss Muffet!

I have my kinders work in groups, but you could easily have them complete this challenge on their own as well. You can see that there were several different ideas for creating the "tuffet"!

Incorporating art into nursery rhymes is easy, but I always try to move away from simple crafts to actual process art. For our Tiny Tim nursery rhyme we used different sizes of bubble wrap to paint our turtles and the kids loved it!

Tying in math concepts is easy with some of the nursery rhymes. For example, for Hickory Dickory Dock we combine retelling with learning to tell time! I made this clock out of a cereal box and the mice from felt.  As we retell the nursery rhyme, we use a different clock face and change the time in the rhyme!

And of course we can't forget the Science aspect of S.T.E.A.M.! I incorporate a demonstration or experiment with each of my nursery rhyme units:

Like this demonstration on what fire needs with the rhyme Jack Be Nimble  - perfect for Fire Safety in October!

Or an experiment on gravity for Humpty Dumpty using sand, flour and marbles! 

Another way that I incorporate STEM ideas in my classroom is through our center materials. I have so many different types of building materials from blocks to magnetic tiles to 3d shapes to natural wood pieces to plastic cups! You'd be amazed at what the kids can build with these materials! However, while I was at I Teach K this summer I saw a great, new product at a booth and had to have it! 

Meet BlocksRock. This product was created by a group of 6th graders! It comes in a handy, zippered carrying case for easy clean up and storage. It includes 2 levels of cards along with a bell. There's a free app that extends the fun even more!

This is me with at the BlocksRock booth at I teach K with their incredibly friendly staff!

Angie from BlocksRock was gracious enough to allow me to try a set out for myself. I brought it home and started playing it with Sullivan. Since he's only 4 and his spatial awareness is still developing, I allowed him to build at his own pace rather than racing against me.

He loved being able to ring the bell when he was finished! Initially he played for 20 minutes straight, which was awesome for a 4 year old's attention span! We've played with the set several times in the past month and I can already see a big difference in his ability level. We started with the Level 1 cards and he is now able to easily complete the Level 2 cards and even some of the Level 3s! 

Here's a picture of what I built with the app!

I took my set to my first day of in-service training and soon had all of the teachers playing it too! Our 3rd grade teacher is using some leftover grant money to purchase some sets! You can buy them either through the BlockRock website or on Amazon (affiliate link) There's a discount for buying 2 sets, and if you buy 5 you get a set free! These are perfect for after school Science Clubs, STEM Nights or even in your classroom Block Center! I honestly can say that this product can go from Pre-K all the way to at least 5th grade in a classroom setting. Not only has Sullivan played it, but my 10, 13, and 18 year old kiddos also tried it out and enjoyed it! I even got my 18 year old to put down her phone for a full twenty minutes to play it with me!

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Classroom Tested Art Supplies You Need!

Using Kwik Stix in the Classroom

Have you heard about Kwik Stix from The Pencil Grip? These are solid tempera paint sticks that dry super quickly and provide vibrant color! I have to admit that I was skeptical at first - my kids love painting at our 4-person easel and I didn't think the experience would be the same with paint stix. Well guess what, it isn't the same, but sometimes it's better!

Here's what I used my Kwik Stix for:

Before Christmas we wrote Thank You cards to our local police officers and to some people who donated items to our classroom. I wanted something more fun and brighter than crayons, but I didn't want to have to wait for paint to dry. I also didn't want to use markers because often the kids over-color with them and end up ripping the paper because it gets too wet. The Kwik Stix were amazing for cards! As you can see from this picture, the colors were vibrant and they didn't smear or bleed into each other like sometimes happens with water colors.

We also used them to paint our craft sticks to make these picture ornaments. They gave great coverage, so this didn't take but a few minutes, whereas getting out the tempera paint and cups, protecting the tables and then cleaning everything up would have taken twice as long! They washed off of my students' fingers easily too!

The absolute best part though, is that they literally dry in 90 seconds or less. So when a child flips the paper over, or puts their sleeve in it, there's no mess! It's also super easy to clean up - it wiped off my tables with a Clorox wipe and no elbow grease needed!

While I would never get rid of my liquid tempera paint or my easel, the ease of use of the Kwik Stix, the easy set-up and clean-up as well as the super quick drying time, make them a must-have addition to my classroom. Oh and in case you're wondering about how long they last,  we've used them on 40+ thank you cards, as well as our ornaments and during Center Time at Art Center a few times, and I am still on my original packs - in other words, they've lasted longer than I thought they would!

In fact, I think these are so great that I'm adding them to my wishlist that I'll be sending out to my parents in a few weeks when tax return season hit (tip: tax return season is the perfect time to hit up your parents for extras for the classroom-start making your list now!)

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Amazing Alphabet Progress + Giveaway!

Do you want to hear something incredible? On Friday I sent 8 of my kiddos home wearing a crown that said 'Hip, Hip Hooray! I know all of my letters and sounds!"

Two other kiddos missed it by only 3 sounds or less (they had 100% letter recognition). If these 10 students know all of this by the beginning of October, just think how far we can go by May!

When I printed out my ESGI Class Totals Report and looked at our numbers, even I was impressed! At the beginning of the year our class average for knowing all upper case & lower case names and letter sounds was only 53%. Now it is 78%!! We gained 167 letter sounds as a class, 82 lower case letters and 52 upper case letters! I had students go from 76% to 100%, but even more impressive 4% to 46%! All of my learners made gains - from my lowest kiddos to my highest, this program was effective for all! (And just in case you're wondering, I teach in a Title I school with 95% receiving free/reduced lunch. I started the year with 19 students, lost 2 and gained 1, so now I have 18. Of those 18 I have 4 ELL, 1 ADHD, 2 military children with fathers deployed, and 3 that didn't go to pre-k. I love them all, but they have the same issues that your students are probably struggling with!)

How did I do it? 26 days of intense instruction on a single letter a day with reinforcement of all letters daily! I have a Mega Alphabet Phonics Pack that we used daily. We built an anchor chart for each letter:

Each day I would challenge my students to come up with a picture I could easily draw or trace that started with our letter of the day. I can't draw at all, so they had to be super simple lol! I also didn't want to spend a ton of money on this, so when I found a few sheets of yellow and pink poster board in our work room I was so excited! We never have things like poster board, so I have no idea where they came from, but I sliced those babies in half and skipped all the way back to class! There was enough that I only ended up buying one extra yellow sheet, so the whole wall of anchor charts cost me 50 cents! And, since we're working on patterns in math, we alternated the pink and yellow. Of course that became an issue when I made the T and U both pink by mistake...those little buggers sweet angels made me redo the whole umbrella just so we didn't break the pattern!

Once I had drawn or traced the shape of the day and cut it out (while they were working on their hats), we went through our stack of beginning sound pictures and found the 4 that began with that letter and glued them on. This was great practice in discerning initial sounds, and my kiddos are such experts at it now! Once they got used to listening for the beginning sound, a lot of them made the leap to ending sounds, with a few even starting to hear medial sounds. One day one of my sweeties walked up to me and said "Hello.....oh...there's an "l" in the middle of hello! Wow!" and walked away! She never did tell me what she was coming up to me for lol!

I  laminated the pictures in advance, and used a glue stick to attach them, so I can easily take them off to reuse them next year Then each child came up and wrote the upper and lower case letter. While each child was waiting for their turn, we watched different letter videos on Youtube - Jack Hartman has a new set that is awesome, plus Sesame Street and a few other channels have great ones - but that's another post entirely!

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For some letters, I raided our craft supplies to help out - like adding streamers for the jellyfish's tentacles, yarn for the kite, and raffia twine for the balloon's string!

I also used the wall for math concepts in addition to the AB pattern - we have a rhombus kite for K, a rectangle for R and an octagon for O!

For some things it came out lucky that we landed on a particular color in the pattern - like pink pear!

Y is for Yoda...or "For Yoda, y is." 

The placement on our hallway wall was also strategic. We pass the anchor charts every time we go to recess or specials. That means 3 times a day we stop and chant our way through the alphabet. The kids stand in two rows in front of the wall and I walk along pointing at the pictures like Vanna White and we say "A is for apple, /a/ /a/ apple. B is for balloon, /b/ /b/ balloon." All the way to "Y is for Yoda, /y/ /y/ Yoda. Z is for Zebra /z/ /z/ zebra!" This takes literally less than 2 minutes, but it is such a great reinforcement! 

We also made hats each day - I made my own because what I really wanted to focus on was both initial sound and writing. A lot of the hats I've used in the past just didn't have any space for handwriting and/or the pictures they used weren't ideal (I've seen blends and digraphs used on alphabet pages before...chair does not begin with the /c/ sound...ugh! sorry pet peeve lol!) These hats give my students clear picture cues for the beginning sound and lots of practice writing the letters. This year's batch of kiddos will work pretty darn hard for a compliment, so it soon became quite competitive when it came time to color the hats. They even got into trying to match color to beginning sound (lots of yellow on the Y hats) or making a pattern when writing the upper and lower case letters!

These were two of my boys who really took their time crafting their hats!

 Each hat has 4 beginning sound pictures and then handwriting lines for students to practice writing their letters. Look how neatly this little sweetie worked!

I loved this tie-dyed hat!

This was also great daily scissor practice - one little guy needed one-on-one help daily with cutting out his hat. We went from having to do it hand over hand to him being able to cut his entire "Hip Hip Hooray!" hat by himself!!

Each day we also used the initial sound posters also included in my pack. They gave my students a great jumping off point for what the letter sounded like at the beginning of words, really cementing that sound for them. The challenge each day was to find words that started with the letter of the day that were not on our poster.

We also watch our Groovy Cat Names & Faces slideshow daily.  I took pictures of all of my students and added them to the slideshow just like in the picture below with my son Sullivan. Each day we watched the show and say "S is for Sullivan /s/ /s/ Sullivan!" and we go through everyone's name on the show. Not only did this help my students learn each other's names, thus building our classroom community, it also helped them recognize their own name in print as well as their friends! It really helps my students to add meaning to learning letters. One day when the Letter of the Day was revealed to be "L" one of my friends squealed in delight and turned to me "For Luna and Lucas!" he cried. He was just thrilled that we were going to be learning "their" letter!

Now that we've gone through the alphabet the first time, my Mega Alphabet Pack will come into play even more! I have a low group  of 3 students who need even more intense instruction. Although they showed gains during our alphabet review, they didn't make as dramatic progress as some of the others. With these students I will be working in small group, giving them hands on experiences like writing in sand, working with play dough and play foam to form letters and other experiences to really engage them in the learning process. This is the group that is going to need the most intervention and for the first little bit it will mostly be hands on with little paper/pencil.

 We'll be using our ABC Rubber Ducks from Oriental Trading for sure!

And wait until you see what we're doing with our Alphabet Plush from My Early Learning Box!

Then I have a group of 4 who are at about the halfway point. They scored between 39% - 58% on letter and sound recognition. These 4 started at 4% - 14% so they actually made the greatest gains in the class! These students need moderate intervention to help them pick up the rest of the letters and sounds. These students will be working on games during our small group time - matching upper case letters to lower case to beginning picture. Playing Roll & Cover games or clothespin clip cards, these students will soak it all up through plenty of fun activities with the chance for more pencil/paper work at the same time! All of these activities are ALSO in my Mega Alphabet Pack!

What will my high group be working on? These kiddos started out at 58% - 91% and now are at 94% - 100%. This is my largest group, and they're ready for more pencil/paper, independent work while I focus on the two lower groups. They'll mostly be working on reading cvc words and sight words, especially using activities from my Medial Sounds Pack to help them discern those tricky vowel sounds!

I am so excited by the progress that my class has made, I cannot wait for Collaboration Wednesday when we meet with admin to go over data. My principal is going to blown away! To celebrate, I decided to do a giveaway of my Mega Alphabet Pack! Enter below for your chance to win!

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Thanksgiving Experiments, Sensory Table & a Giveaway!

Happy Sunday! It's just 7 more school days until Thanksgiving Break! I can't believe how fast this year is flying by! We've been packing in a ton of fun and learning this November, and I have lots to share:

In our Sensory Center we have corn cobs and seeds. 

I'll be adding acorns on Monday - freshly harvested by my own children lol!

The kids loved taking the corn off the cobs - those will be recycled in our Art Center as a paint "brush"! They also used the sieves to separate the seeds and corn. After this picture was taken I added a wire basket whose holes were just big enough for even the corn to fall through! As the week progresses we'll be adding measuring cups, more sieves and containers. These help us work on concepts of volume as well as size. Plus, taking the kernels off the cob is great for fine motor muscles!

Corn is elsewhere in our classroom too! 

We're attempting to have our Indian corn grow in both a container of water AND a container of soil. 

We watched this time lapse video of a seed growing to help us learn about roots and shoots:

At home, the students are working on their "Disguise a Turkey" projects. and yes, often the parents do the bulk of the "work", which doesn't bother me AT ALL. To me, this project is more about sparking conversation between children and parents. Having the family plan together which disguise to do and what to make it with. Maybe shopping for materials, or scrounging in drawers and cupboards. The parents NEED to be active participants in this project - for me, the whole point is to get the parents involved in something their child is doing for school. Giving them a topic of conversation: "Did your teacher like the Turkey Disguise we made? What did you friends make? Which one is your favorite? If we do this again next year, which disguise will you choose?" so that they're children realize that mom & dad (grandma, whoever!) care about their education and want them to do well! The turkey project is low risk too - there's no right or wrong answer, the child is going to be thrilled with whatever help they get, and the teacher is going to welcome any disguise!

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We're also working on letters and sounds of course, and my students are blowing those out of the water! Kids that came in not knowing even one letter of their name now know 20 letters! Everyone is making progress, and it is so heartening to see it! So many times we as teachers get bogged down in the politics of teaching, the long hours, the workload that seems to get bigger each year etc. Yet seeing the growth in my students, that they are learning so much and reaching their potential, while still loving school and rushing to hug me in the morning, well, that makes it all worthwhile!

Our main resource is this:

My Alphabet Sounds pack contains center activities and no-prep printables for each letter of the alphabet! There are so many pieces that you can use in whole group, small group lessons or one-on-one too! Since we don't have a reading curriculum, this is what I use to teach letters and sounds, and it works!

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Stepping It Up With GoNoodle!

We have finished 10 full days of school! Or, in GoNoodle terms, we've gone through 1 1/2 Champs! Today I'm joining up with a bunch of other bloggers for a Back to School Blogger Blitz to share all the wonders of using GoNoodle in the classroom!

This year I'm in pre-k and I have 17 darlings who have tons of energy and very short attention spans. We can't sit still for more than 5 minutes at a time, so we need LOTS of brain breaks - most of which come from GoNoodle!

In the morning, before breakfast, we start off with Maximo - his easy yoga videos calm my kids and get them ready to head into the hallway! I can already see the difference in balance and concentration after just 10 days!

We also GoNoodle during calendar time! My calendar block is 20 minutes long, since we hit a LOT of math standards during it. Of course, 20 minutes is way too long for my kids to sit still at this point, so we do a lot of dancing - some of it is content - days of the week, months of the year, counting to 20 for example (videos from Youtube) - but interspersed into that 20 minutes is at least 2-3 Koo Koo Kangaroo songs! One of our faves is "I Get Loose"!

Since I'm teaching young kids, repetition is important! The first day, I only had a handful of kiddos dancing along when I played a video. The rest stared at our Smartboard screen in befuddlement. Day by day, as I repeat the same few videos, more and more kiddos are catching on and learning the moves. My extroverts are already adding in their own flare, while my shyer kiddos feel comfortable since they know the "steps" to each dance. Of the 28 available Koo Koo Kangaroo videos, I've only introduced 8 so far, which means the kids are really starting to learn the lyrics and movements, so they feel more comfortable participating. I think this is a key step in using GoNoodle in the classroom - start out slow with a few videos and get to know them well rather than overwhelm your kiddos with too many at once.

After recess we do "Chillax" which they love because it's funny. I love it because the deep breathing and calm movements help my kiddos wind down and get ready for nap time!

One of the best things about GoNoodle for me is the progress bar. After each video we figure out how many more videos we need to dance to until we get to the next level of the Champ. My kiddos are so excited about the transmogrifying machine its not even funny! After a video we hold up our ten fingers and then I say "We need 10, we've done 6. How many more do we need?" And I demonstrate putting down 6 fingers (or whatever number). Then we count how many fingers I still have up.

My kiddos have caught on really well and can now call out the number if its under 5 - identifying 3 fingers as 3 without me counting them individually for example, which is great! Some of them are even getting to the point that if we count and have 3 videos to go, after the next video they shout out "Now we only need 2!" without even having to count (we still do though!) This gives us lots of practice with knowing that we have 10 fingers all the time (or 5 on one hand, which can be a tough concept as many kindergarten and 1st grade teachers will attest to - the kids who still count all fingers even though they have 5 fingers up on one hand and 2 up on the other and could just be able to recognize that one hand has 5 fingers and start counting on from there)

This week we've been focusing on learning our colors (reading Pete the Cat, Mouse Paint etc) and I've been using the "Awesome Rainbows" video for that, so GoNoodle is helping with color recognition too!

And of course, at the end of the day we fit in some more GoNoodle time to help release some of the end of day excitement so that we can have a calm dismissal time! For that we usually do "Get Yo Body Movin'" or "This or That".

My kids LOVE to GoNoodle and I haven't even shown them 1/2 of what is available! As the year progresses and my kids gain more gross motor control, I'll be able to introduce the rest of the Koo Koo Kangaroo videos as well as KidzBop, Moose Tube, and Zumba Kids too! GoNoodle will be a constant in our classroom - a treat for the kids and a great behavior management tool for me! By providing brain breaks, I'll be able to keep misbehavior to a minimum since the kids will have a positive outlet for all their energy!

One of the best personal benefits of using GoNoodle in the classroom though? It is great exercise for me too! It really helps me reach my step goal every day - and let me tell you - the difference between my work week step counts and weekend step counts is rather sad! I think I need to start a new GoNoodle class just for me to use on the weekends lol!

As part of this weekend's GoNoodle Blogger Blitz, I get to giveaway a great piece of GoNoodle Swag! This pencil case is adorable ~ I would totally use it in my Writing Center to hold special markers and pencils! You can win it by entering the Rafflecopter below!

And don't forget to check out the Blogger Blitz link-up so you can see how other teachers are using GoNoodle in the classroom - and each blogger is giving away GoNoodle swag so you'll have lots of chances to win cool prizes too! BONUS! GoNoodle has given us a code worth 15% off all the GoNoodle swag in their store from September 4-11, 2015! Just use BTSwithGoNoodle at checkout for your 15% off stickers, t-shirts, tumblers and more!!

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