Listen to some samples of our fabulous grade one Garageband music compositions. The children created these compositions to demonstrate emotions in music.
Recently we worked together on a PD session for our Infant teachers who have classroom blogs. We talked about adding ClustrMaps, Shelfari and Google Translate (a Blogger Gadget) onto our blogs. You can find the full post on our UWCSEA East Digital Literacy Coach Blog.  We used our iPads in K1 to create Austin Kleon inspired blackout poetry again this year. Steps taken to create our rain poetry: - Children chose a favourite poem from www.mothergoosecaboose.com/rainpoems.html- A screen shot of the poem was taken - The screen shot was opened in the App ‘Brushes’- Children were invited to circle their favourite words in the poem- All remaining words were covered over to create a poemWe were working on the following NETS standards during this project: Creativity and Innovation: - Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, & develop innovative products & processes using technology What happens when you leave some iPads on a table in a Kindergarten? You get a band of course! 
This is a post we did on our work blog. Four SquareFour Square is defined online as 'a location mapping and social networking service that allows users to let their friends know what they are up to by checking in to different venues. It also allows you to discover what is nearby, look for recommendations and sometimes save money'. Much to the dismay of my fellow DL enthusiasts I don't have an iphone but Keri-Lee has been trying to get me to jump in and she has been telling me about her use of the app. You can find her blogpost about it on our work blog. From what I am hearing, most people seem to be using Foursquare for the following reasons: - some people are competitive and simple want to be the 'mayor' and want to collect badges - sometimes restaurants post specials in Foursquare and you may be lucky and get a deal on a drink or some food - you can see where your friends are and perhaps join them - you can explore places nearby and you can get tips
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Groupon
Groupon brings to life the power of group buying. Each day there are new deals that you can get and these deals range from food to products to services. Once you make a purchase you receive a voucher that you can redeem. So far, Groupon has provided excellent customer service in Singapore. The app is free.
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Hungry Go Where?
Hungry go where is an excellent Singapore resource for finding great food all over the island. You can search by area, by food type, and by cost and you can read reviews from people who have been there before you. The app works in much the same way as the website.
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Jamie's Recipes
This is a free app, where you purchase 'packs' of recipes as in-app purchases depending on what you are interested in. Most are around USD$1.99.
Examples of packs include:
- comfort foods
- brilliant breakfast & brunch
- date night
Support is provided in the way of beautifully illustrated, step-by-step recipes, how-to videos and shopping lists.
Jamie's 20 Minute Meals
This is a collection of Jamie's most popular recipes in the 'Jamie's Recipes' app, which are bundled together as a new app. This gives access to all of his 20-minute meals. The same videos and high quality directions we have come to expect with JO are a part and parcel of this app.
Epicurious
Epicurious is an app that helps you search for professionally created and tested recipes. You can also make interactive shopping lists and follow step-by-step instructions. You can search by ingredients, meal or course, type of cuisine dietary considerations, season etc. Most recipes are accompanied by reviews and photos.
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“…joy in life doesn’t usually come in long stretches for hours at a time, month after month, year after year . . . but in moments.”
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K1 HKi used the iPads to take photographs as we went on a number hunt around our school. We found lots of numbers in our environment:
We used our photographs to make a number line for their K1 classroom:
The expectations we were working towards:
- use a digital device to create a visual piece of work, with the support of an adult
- use a digital tool to collect and visualize data
- with teacher support, identify steps to take to complete a given task using a digital tool
Things I learned during this lesson:
- the iPads are heavy and a bit hard for the K1s to hold and press the shutter to take a photo
- we need to have a chat before starting about the important things to remember when taking photos - #1 Stand Still!
- it is so much more fun (not to mention the connections being made) when a different teacher opens up their classroom for us, Ms. Imogen helped us find numbers in the music room and that was the favourite place to take photos
- use a digital device to create a visual piece of work, with the support of an adult
- use a digital tool to collect and visualize data
- with teacher support, identify steps to take to complete a given task using a digital tool
Things I learned during this lesson:
- the iPads are heavy and a bit hard for the K1s to hold and press the shutter to take a photo
- we need to have a chat before starting about the important things to remember when taking photos - #1 Stand Still!
- it is so much more fun (not to mention the connections being made) when a different teacher opens up their classroom for us, Ms. Imogen helped us find numbers in the music room and that was the favourite place to take photos
We used the iPads to document the learning during a science class dissection lab.
We were asked to create a set of impact posters from the PYP Attitudes to be used as certificates at assembly. The teachers requested that we leave them a place to write and we decided to use real life creative commons images. This is what we came up with...
As part of a Unit of Inquiry on Communites we introduced the Grade 1s to blogs as a way of participating in an online community. We had a look at this blog and two children's blogs, Scarlett Beasley and Griffin Beasley. We decided that there was one golden rule when posting online "Never say something online that you wouldn't say to someone in person" and the three main questions for the students to remember when adding to an online community were 1) Is it true? 2) Is it necessary? and 3) Is it kind?
Some examples of their comments:
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