On the road and in the air has been one of my top products, but it was time to give this tried and true unit a little TLC.
I hope your little ones enjoy the updates as much as ours did. You can find this unit here. Teaching Preschoolers Store Teachers Pay Teachers If you have purchased this unit before on TpT make sure that you go to your my purchase and re-download the unit again to get all of the updated activities.
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New learning experience: from digital to tangible!Are you one of those teachers that wishes their students would spend less time on their digital devices and more time playing with actual physical toys? Or maybe you are a parent that is battling the gadget-addiction with your child? ABC Talk with Me! is the best of both worlds, children get to use actual physical ABC building blocks and their tablet or phone to play. Nowadays, 80% of children are perfectly familiar with digital technologies that improve their successful development. With the development of new technologies, many important activities became reduced to smartphone or tablet icons, including kid’s toys and games. But would you pretend that your childhood was too boring or dull with all those heaps of color Legos and wooden blocks. A child's development is impossible without physical interaction with objects. Therefore, it was the creators idea of giving a happy childhood back to children and reducing gadgets to the minor role of just an addition to the main types of cognitive and learning activities. They proposed an original way to promote reading and spelling skills for children by using a combination of physical toys and new technologies. Learning letters will be an entertaining and cool game. You just aim your tablet or phone camera at any letter of the ABC cube, and a new program converts this letter to a picture. The next level concerns words. When you construct a word from ABC blocks, once again you aim the camera at the result, and it quickly converts, e.g., the word «dog» into a cute puppy on the screen. Moreover, a kid can practice his/her pronunciation, by repeating a word or letter after the speaker. Learn more about ABC Talk with Me Here.
Who is here? During our who is here activity children get to experience in a hands on way counting and number recognition. It is something that needs to get done so why not enlist the help of our students. It shows the children how to collect data of who is here and who is absent. They begin to understand that we use this information for how many breakfast and lunches we need for the day. We use this as a daily transition activity from group morning meeting to wash hands for breakfast. We begin by having all of the children's names on the magnetic board. Children them come up and find their name. Children count and identify the number as they place their name card in the pocket. During our morning Math Circle we use this information to answer some fun classroom facts, it is a way for us to talk math talk in a fun and meaningful way.
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May 2024
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