One-to-One iPads in Kindergarten

Last week Kindergarten received 6 more iPads, giving us 10 iPads for 10 students.  Now, what do we do with them?  Apps are great for building skills.  Kids love them and will practice longer.  The real shift in an iPad classroom, however, is bigger than that.  My goal is to have students use the iPads to document their learning and have more choices about the way they learn.

Today we used Letter Quiz to practice writing our letters.  We used Drawing Pad to practice writing the high frequency words see, a, like, go, and to.  After reading a story about the Pilgrims, measuring out the length of the Mayflower on the playground, and each drawing 10 people on the Mayflower on the blacktop, we followed a directed draw of the Mayflower using Drawing Pad.  We used the keyboard to label the Mayflower.

Using Pic Collage to Display Multiple Pictures

After sharing the pen to write a sentence about how the Pilgrims got to America, we chose whether we wanted to continue our drawings of the Mayflower on the iPad, use what we knew and start a new picture on the iPad, or use paper and colored pencils to start a new picture.  All of the students can be proud of the pictures they finished.  In the future we will be using the apps Explain Everything and Pic Collage to record what we have learned.