Fact Families on the iPads

We have been learning about fact families in math. For one of our fact family activities, I had the students represent a fact family on the iPads.  Each of my students had a different set of numbers to use for his/her fact family. I allowed the students to choose their own math manipulatives to use for this project.  Some chose to use our 2 colored dots and some chose to use our linking cubes.  I also had the students choose between the Popplet app or the Pic Collage app to show their final products. Below are some of the finished products.

Adjectives and iPads

We have been learning about adjectives this past week at school.  We read a few great adjective books. My class really got into The Bug Book.  It had great illustrations of bugs demonstrating different adjectives.  This lesson definately increased our vocabulary as we talked about different shades of meaning for various words in the book.  We also sang several adjective songs and made some adjective charts.

We then used the iPads to demonstrate some of our learning about adjectives.  Our first activity stemmed from these great read alouds.  We used the Explain Everything app in our first activity.  This app is a screencasting, whiteboard app on which you can draw and record.  It is only $2.99 and was very easy for my primary students to use.

My students each chose an animal to draw in the app.  Then they wrote some adjectives to describe their animal in the pictures.  Last they recorded themselves talking about their adjectives.

Another activity we did involved the skitch app.  The students took a photo of themselves in the skitch app.  Then they wrote adjectives that described themselves around them on the photos.

 

Skitch & Popplet app smashing subtraction

We have been working on subtraction in math. We have been using lots of pictures, manipulatives, and equations to solve these simple subtraction problems.   Since our addition Popplet had gone so well, I thought we might try creating a subtraction Popplet.

We began our activity in the Skitch app. Skitch is a free app that allows you to take a photo and then write on it. I've seen this app used a lot for labeling things, but I thought it would be perfect for showing subtraction because it would allow us to mark out the number of items we were subtracting.

I had my students select a number and get that many blocks. Then they took a picture of
their blocks in the skitch app. The students used the tools in the skitch app to mark out blocks to represent a subtraction equation.  I had them show all the ways to subtract from that number with their pictures. The students saved each picture to their camera roll.  Then the students imported their pictures in the Popplet app and wrote the corresponding subtraction equations.   Here are a couple of the finished products.