So much of my traffic on this website comes from people who have shared my work with their readers and I am so grateful for that. First, I want to say a public thank you to some of my biggest sources of traffic over the last 9 months or so. Below are five great sites […]
Cleaning iPads
Read our strategy for cleaning Pads without ruining the screens. Preschoolers are many things. They are sweet, they are cute, they are entertaining, they are creative, they are clever, but most of them tend not to be very clean. Which is why after just a few weeks of use, our iPads were filthy. They have […]
21 Best Apps for Preschool and Kindergarten iPads
We expanded our 5 Best Apps Series! Five wasn’t enough when we started using Apple Configurator. Keep reading to find out what we think are the 21 Best Apps for Preschool and Kindergarten. When we decided to use Apple Configurator to manage our iPads, one of the biggest ramifications was the fact that we would […]
Teach a Preschooler to Code for “Hour of Code” Week? You Bet!
Truthfully, preschoolers don’t do anything for a whole hour, except maybe play. It’s just not developmentally appropriate to ask them to do anything for that long. Still, we did take some time this week to introduce the children to coding in honor of Computer Science Education Week’s Hour of Code event. And, they loved it! […]
Using QR Codes to Share Videos with Parents
Ever since I discovered QR codes last year, I knew I wanted to find a way to use QR codes to share videos with parents. Thanks to one of those serendipitous hallway conversations with a parent/co-worker, I was finally able to figure out how to make it work using dropbox! To read more about how […]
Augmented Reality in the Classroom: Writing Numbers 1 through 9
Have you heard of Augmented Reality in the classroom? The minute I read about it, I knew I had to try it in our Pre-K classroom. I think of augmented reality as one step beyond QR codes. We did a lot with QR codes last year. We used them to self-correct our counting activities and […]
Where can I find good apps?
One of my biggest challenges in using iPad in the classroom has been finding good apps for early childhood classrooms. There are lots of great apps for young children, but fewer that are actually suitable for classroom use. I’ve written about my favorite apps in my 5 Best Apps Series, but I still struggle to […]
