It's that time of year again! Friday my class will be having Polar Express Day complete with a literature unit, art projects, movie time and "warm" hot cocoa! To get us in the spirit we will be incorporating the Polar Express into our station time this week. I created 5 ELA station activities that will be perfect practice for: real vs nonsense words, beginning sounds, ending sounds, rhyming words and sight words. You can grab these too {HERE}. Check out the stations below.
Confession. I'm a teacher which means I LOVE control. I was initially reluctant to let my students take a turn with the letter cards. Not because I didn't want them to enjoy the interactive part but because I was nervous about them placing the cards in the right spot or knocking the camera over. I took my time introducing them to the letter cards and the the colors and eventually began calling on them to lead our exploration time. I will now admit that my students are far more successful with Letters Alive than I am. For real. Here's one of my kindergarten students leading the class on some sentence building. You will hear the rest of the class chanting different colors for him to use. He ultimately chooses brown, which makes the toucan change color. It's hard to see on my screen through the camera but you can tell by the oohs and aahs when it happens.Pretty cool, huh? As I get more and more comfortable with augmented reality I am letting my students take the helm with this. It is absolutely amazing how they just know how to turn the cards to make things come alive. I look forward to what else my students can teach me with this program. :)
