Telling Time Apps

We are working on telling time in class.  I have found a few good FREE apps for practicing reading clocks that we use in our iPad center.

Telling Time - Digital Clock by Photo Touch by Grasshopper Apps
In this free app, students click the digital clock from the audio prompt. As the clocks are matched correctly, more clocks will appear on the screen each time.  This app is adjustable for difficulty levels in the settings, as you can turn on and off certain times to meet the needs of your students. Here are a few screenshots from the app.

Tell Time - Little Matchups Game by Grasshopper Apps 
In this free app the students match the digital to the analog clocks.  As the students correctly match the clocks, more clocks will appear on the screen at a time.  This app also allows you to adjust the difficulty level in the settings.  You can turn certain times and the audio hints on or off.  Here are some screenshots from the app.

Wake the Rooster by Telling Time: Tiny Chicken by TapToLearn Software

In this free app, students need to set seven correct alarms to wake the rooster.  The students move the arms of the clock to the correct time.  This app will become progressively harder as the correct time is set by the students.  Here are a few screenshots from the app.

Telling Time Quiz by Innovative Mobile Apps

In this free app students, students select the clock that shows the given time.  More clocks will appear on the screen as the correct time is selected.  This app has 18 levels for the students to master and unlock.  Here are a few screenshots from the first two levels.

If you know of any more good, free telling time apps please let me know.

100th day with Aging Booth App

The 100th day of school is always one of the most fun days of the year for primary students.  For many years we have written about what we think our lives will be like when we are 100 years old.  Sometimes our school even dresses up as 100 year olds to celebrate the day.  This year I learned about the Aging Booth App.  In this app, you take your photo and then it will age you.  It costs $0.99 but was worth the price for all the laughs.  We took our photos with the app and then uploaded the photos to our blogs.  On our blogs we typed about our lives as 100 year olds.

Groups of Objects on the iPads

We have been working on the Common Core State Standard 1.NBT.A.1 - Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120.  In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.  I decided to have the students create and count their own groups of objects between 1-120 on the iPads.  I let the students pick different manipulatives to use for this project such as blocks, links, counters, buttons, etc from my math manipulatives in the classroom.  The students counted out four different groups of objects and took a photo of their groups with the iPad camera.  Some of my students chose to use the Popplet app and some of them choose to use the Pic Collage app to showcase their different groups.  Here are some of their finished products.

Equality of Equations on the iPads

We have been working on equality of equations in math, CCSS 1.OA.D.7 - understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false.  I created a QR code task card activity for my students to use in practicing this skill.  My students love everything about QR codes. I had the early finishers create their own equations for everyone else to solve for equality on the iPads.  Here are some of the student created equations.

 

 We used the Doodle Buddy app to create our equations and saved them to the camera roll.  They submitted their finished products to me in the Showbie App.

A few students decided to use the PicCollage app to create their equations.

Then I had a few students who decided they wanted to add their voice to their equations.  They uploaded their equations into the Explain Everything app and the Tellagami app.

From the Showbie App, I uploaded the student made equations to Dropbox.  Then I created a QR code that linked to each problem.  We used the student created equations to practice this skill again. 

The students LOVED solving the problems created by themselves and their own classmates.  

This activity was a huge hit that we will be repeating!  My students were totally able to create the problems for our task cards.  Why didn't I think of this before?!

To download a copy of our student made QR code equality of equations task cards click the picture below.  

QR Code Task Cards

My first graders have enjoyed QR code task cards. After completing several activities made by other teachers, I decided to create one myself.  I began by creating the actual task cards themselves.  I made 12 different problems for my students to solve and created a recording sheet for their answers.

I then saved the task cards as JPEGs and uploaded them to my dropbox.  In dropbox, I clicked the share link button on each image to get the URL.  I copied each URL into the Kaywa QR code generator website to create the QR codes to link to each task card.  I previously blogged about using this website to create QR codes.  Click here for a post with a teacher sheet on how to use this website to create the codes.

I'm so excited to try this activity out with my class.

colAR mix app

My class has been fascinated with the Aurasma app where we can make images come alive.  So when I learned that the colAR Mix app had some free seasonal coloring pages for the holidays, I decided to try out this app with my first graders.

It was a huge hit!  We will be trying out their New Year's pages in January.  I downloaded the free coloring pages here.

Rudolph Stories in Book Creator

This past week at school we had many festive activities as we approached Christmas break.  On our reindeer day we read several fiction and nonfiction reindeer books. 

 

Then we began to create our own reindeer stories to publish in the Book Creator app on the iPads.  We have the free version of the Book Creator app.  It allows you to create one book at a time.

First we used a graphic organizer to plan each page of our story.

This was our first time using the book creator app.  The students caught on to the tools within the app very quickly.

The students found it very easy to use the drawing tools within the app to add details to their pictures.

They were thrilled to make a cover for their stories.

When the books were complete, we exported them to the Explain Everything app.  In this app, the students recorded themselves reading each page of their stories.  We then saved this project as a video to the camera roll so we could upload them to our Kidblogs.

Here are a few of the finished stories. They are very simple stories since this was our first time using the app.  I'm hoping our next books will contain more details.