Learning how to Print iPad Style!

I love to surf the app store looking for new apps.  This is my latest find!  It is called Letter School.

It is a great app about learning how to form letters and numerals correctly.  And the best part is that it is fun!

I showed it to the students at the beginning of the week and I wish you could have heard all the giggles!  It has been in non-stop use since then!   

It teaches how to form both upper and lower case letters and numerals in the conventional format.  They had a great time working with it.  We continue to share the iPad using the Belkin headphone and some excellent sharing skills.  Everyone enjoyed taking their turn!  I am hoping that some students will pick up the correct formation of some of the letters they are still struggling to learn to do in the conventional format!  

If you move your finger in the wrong direction it won't move and just makes a funny little noise that indicates that you need to try a different way.  

The great thing is that the animations are fabulous!  As the children work through several repeats the animations keep changing!  Very cool!

We made these "Umbrella" people.  I call them that because you can't see anything but the umbrellas.  A bit like little children with big umbrellas!  I am making up a package about how we made them and the fun poem activity inside to post on my Teachers Pay Teachers site!  Almost ready to go!  

Alphabet iPad Fun!

I really love to have the students use a variety of apps to create their own special projects.  They really seem to like working with the combination of Doodle Buddy and Strip Designer!  The Math workbooks were a big hit and I managed to sent them home to all the parents via email.

Then we decided we could also use the same process to create an Alphabet book.  The children used pictures on the camera roll of themselves as well as pictures we took in the classroom.  If we couldn't find a picture of something then we drew it! These are just a few of the pages.

I am working on a Photostory of all the pages to create our very own Alphabet book.  As the file will be too bit to email I will upload it to an iCloud server and the parents will be able to download it from there!

The children also used Doodle Buddy and Strip Designer to create their own comics.

The children have become masters at navigating around to create their masterpieces.  They jump from app to app, importing files from the camera roll, recording their voices, etc with ease.  Things that I would have really hesitated about introducing don't even faze them!  They find things that they can do and teach me and their classmates as we go!  Today we were playing with the Strip Designer app and they were showing me how to do things!  "Oh, you just do this, Mrs. Anton!"

The children created these comics with Doodle Buddy, made screen shots of their work, and then imported them from the camera roll into the comic format.   They choose a balloon style and added the text to the balloon.  Then they can add the Word stamps to accentuate their work.  Needless to say a very popular app!  At some point I would like to create multiple page comics. 

The first day with this app we used just the pictures that were on the camera roll to tell a story!  That worked great too!

The students have gone on to create some of their own pages in free time!  Take a look!