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December 31, 2013 · 11:09 pm

Fun with Elves!

We had a lot of fun with elves this month! We have Sparkles, our Elf on the Shelf who teamed up with Gus, our resident ghost mischief-maker working together to leave surprises for the children almost every day! They left messages, puzzles, stickers, suggestions for stories to read, and sometimes special treats to eat! I managed to catch them in the act using a special app called Santa Spy Cam! They built a castle using the blocks in the classroom at our Christmas center and filled it with candycanes. The video above is the evidence!

We also filled out applications to become elves. I sent them home for Christmas. Hope you enjoyed them!

We also had a surprise visit from Santa Claus!

He spent a long time visiting with the children and told us a lot about elves. Apparently their favourite food is candycanes!

There were a few elves in his sack that tried to get out but he managed to keep them hidden!

Our Polar Express day was a lot of fun! Thank you to everyone for supporting this day! We made hot chocolate and had yummy cookies. We used up the leftover graham crackers from the Gingerbread house building to make some S’mores! Very yummy!

We listened to the story first and then we each got a jingle bell just like in the story. Luckily, no one had a hole in their pocket!

We also danced to these two Christmas Just Dance Kids videos! The Grade Sevens came to help us dance to the Santa one!

This is the Jingle Bells one! Lots of fun!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Have a Happy New Year!

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November 18, 2013 · 10:00 pm

Too Much Fun with Dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs have been crawling all around our classroom!

Can you see the dinosaur crawling on her pants? That’s the first time I have ever heard “Mrs. Anton! There’s a dinosaur crawling up my leg!”

We have been working with the Adventure mode on the Walking with the Dinosaurs app. You download a printable target and print it off in colour. Then you point the iPad at the screen and suddenly there are dinosaurs crawling all around!

You can feed them and they come running! I wish I could record the student’s faces! Too much fun for me!

We are going to write about the dinosaur pictures we took last week.

I am hoping to get the stories posted to their personal blogs!

Watch for them!

Today we did another science experiment too! Science is magic!

You pour water out of the pitcher and it “sticks” on the string to the cup! Everyone got a turn to pour the water and catch the water! That’s why everyone got a piece of string in their planner. You get to try it too!

I used a little pitcher that I had from a child’s set of dishes. You could use a creamer… Make sure you do this over a sink or have lots of paper towels handy!

Don’t get too wet!

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November 14, 2013 · 10:12 pm

Big Dinosaur AR Fun!

We had some fun today with a new iPad app I found called Walking with Dinosaurs! It is another Augmented Reality app that is amazing! We played with the Photo Booth aspect today. The app allows you to pick from a variety of dinosaurs, orient them on a screen and then take pictures with the dinosaur! We had some fun by posing and acting out a variety of situations.

We held them in our hands!

And we gave them a pet!

We even pretended we were a little bit scared!

And super brave!

We are planning to write stories to go with our pictures!

We took pictures of everyone with the dinosaurs. Watch for them over the next few days! It looks like our class has been invaded by prehistoric dinosaurs!

You can also choose the Adventure Mode. It uses augmented reality and suddenly you have dinosaurs walking around. You can even feed them and they come running over to eat! Very cool! So far, I have only downloaded the free app but I think this one deserves an upgrade!

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November 8, 2013 · 8:58 pm

Dinosaurs AR Style!

This week we have started a new theme about dinosaurs! Today, we had fun with some more Augmented Reality cards for some of the more popular dinosaurs.

Mr. Brick even got to try it out. These cards came as part of the package I downloaded from the AR Flashcards app. You print off the cards with a color printer. These particular cards came with the AR flashcards for the alphabet that we blogged about a few weeks ago! Once you have the cards all you have to do is activate the app and then hold the iPad over the picture. Magic happens! A 3 D image of the dinosaur appears!

If you tap the screen, a child’s voice says the name of the dinosaur. I thought you had to hold it over only one card at at time but the children discovered that they could get all the dinosaurs at once by putting the cards closer together!

It is really cool!

We also did our first research report. I compiled a small set of dinosaur facts about apatosaurus. We read the facts together and then we sorted the facts into four different categories. Our categories were What They Look Like, What They Eat, About the Babies, and Cool Facts. There were a lot of cool facts!

You can find them in the hallway! Take a look!

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October 21, 2013 · 8:02 pm

Augmented Reality Fun! Too Cool!

Today we experimented with an amazing new app on the iPads. The app is called AR Flash Cards. AR is short for Augmented Reality. It is a fantastic app! I printed off the Alphabet cards on my color printer at home. Then I cut them apart. I had already downloaded the app. You basically open the app, place the ipad over the card and wait a little bit. Magic happens!!

A three dimensional animation of the animal on the alphabet card appears on the screen. When you touch the screen the audio component can be heard. It tells the child the name of the letter and the animal!

I was able to let all the children see the magic at the same time using the projector and the special adapter cord I have for the iPad. Later, the children used the iPads independently to try it out by themselves.

I wish I could have taped the looks on their faces when the first animation appeared!

The alphabet cards are really neat and I know we will get a lot of use out of them! They were free! Very easy way to get students interested in alphabet skills! We will be having lots of fun with alphabetizing, letter sounds, spelling practice, and so on with this app!

There are more cards coming soon but they have a cost attached. The dinosaur ones could be really cool!

We also worked with another augmented reality app I have discovered. It is called CoLAR Mix.

I was a bit sneaky! I had the children color a special coloring page that I had downloaded for them. I told them if they did a really good job we would do something really cool with it!

After they finished coloring, I loaded this app and just held the iPad over their coloring.

The pumpkins on their coloring pages come to life and start dancing around the page. They roll around and pop up on top of each other! Very cool! Of course, everyone wants to have a turn!

So far, I have only been able to download the free pages.