Michelledemonstrated this fantastic app for your Ipad or Iphone. It costs $3, but when you see all thelearning possibilities it’s certainly worth what you pay for it. Anyway, you write your students nameson “sticks” and then when you tap the app it chooses a child’s name. The really cool thing about the app isthat it suggests different levels of questions from Bloom’s taxonomy. Questions can be adapted to the abilityof the children and can be integrated with classroom skills and content.
Note! If you don’t have an Ipad you can writestudents names on jumbo craft sticks and keep them in a can. Color one end of the stick green andone end red. After they have had aturn put the green end down and the red end up. When all the sticks are red on top you can flip them overand start again.
MathBracelet
String10 beads on a pipe cleaner and twist the ends to make a bracelet. Children can use the beads like anabacus for doing simple addition and subtraction problems.
DoughnutShop Song (Jeanette Landry – Napoleonville, LA)
(Tune: “Turkey in the Straw”)
Well,I walked around the corner and I walked around the block,
AndI walked right in to a bakery shop.
Iplucked two doughnuts right out of the grease
AndI handed the lady a five cent piece.
Shelooked at the nickel and she looked at me.
Shesaid, “Young man, you’re fooling me.
There’sa hole in this nickel and it goes right through.”
SaidI, “There’s a hole in the doughnut, too!
Thanksfor the doughnut – so long!”
Musical Chairs (Holly Vaughan)
Reinforce skills as you play musical chairsby placing letters (numbers, words, etc.) on chairs. Children have to identify the information before sittingdown.
Letter Twister (Hollly Vaughan)
Write letters (numbers, words, etc.) onpaper and place them on the floor. Call out different letters for children to touch with their hands orfeet. For example, “Put your handon the ‘A.’ Put your foot on the‘X.’
Four Corners (Holly Vaughan)
Put a picture (snake, bee, bear, cat, etc.)in each corner of the room. Countto ten while children choose a corner. Say a word like “hat.” Ifthe picture in their corner rhymes with the word then they act like thatanimal. So children would meowlike a cat.
Tattle Box or “Important Box” (Melissa Arceneaux)
Instead of tattling to the teacher,children write out their complaints on paper and put them in the box. They must start with a capital letterand use good spacing and punctuation or the teacher won’t read their tattles atthe end of the day.
