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All About Me
American Symbols
Animals
Apple Pie Shop
Apple Pie Story
Clouds
Columbus
The Continents
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Africa - Sound of Letter Z
Antarctica - Penguin Story
Asia - Great Wall of China
Australia
Europe - Shapes in the Eiffel Tower
North American Animals
South America - Rainforest
Dr. Seuss
Fall
Farming
Fish
Five Senses
Gingerbread Man
Health
Hearts
Leaves
New Year
Ocean Life
Plants
Princess and the Pea
Pumpkins Field Trip
Shapes in My World
Spring
Teddy Bears
Thanksgiving
Transportation
Weather & Seasons
Wild Animals
Winter
Use student baby pictures and current pictures taken with the iPad to create a photo collage to compare how children have grown and changed.
All About Me
Students practice addition story problems using a sparkling app where they can draw their own fireworks.
American Symbols
Students use a drawing app to practice and demonstrate mastery of plurals, counting, and numeral writing.
Animals
The use of the iPad is included in the housekeeping center which has been converted to an apple pie shop during the theme study of apples and Johnny Appleseed.
Apple Pie Shop
Students use photos they have taken to create their own story of how to make an apple pie. Great as a whole class project or in small groups.
Apple Pie Story
Search the Internet to find out what Christopher Columbus' ship may have looked like and use the information to create own craft ship creations.
Columbus Day
Connect the sound of the letter Z to zebra while studying the continent of Africa using the iPad to explore information about real zebras.
Continent - Africa
Students get to read a fun penguin story on the iPad.
Continent - Antarctica
Explore the vastness and wonder of the Great Wall of China on a visual field trip.
Continent - Asia
Students are able to use a puzzle app to explore the sights of the continent of Australia.
Continent - Australia
Use the iPad to travel to the continent of Europe and explore the Eiffel Tower. Identify shapes and create your own Eiffel Tower drawing.
Continent - Europe
After viewing a video on North American animals, students create an opinion writing piece.
Continent - North America
Use rainforest backgrounds and animals to practice number and counting skills.
Continent - South America
The iPad is used in a literature story extension where students photograph clouds.
Clouds
Students practice blending words after locating rhymes in the popular Dr. Seuss story
The Cat in the Hat
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Dr. Seuss
The iPad is used to assist students in learning to express an opinion focusing on their favorite fall activities.
Fall
Students explore dairy farming and dairy cows using video and web elements.
Farming
Use the iPad to have students practice numbers and addition with a fish app center activity.
Fish
Create a digital book about the five sense and demonstrates student learning and writing skills.
Five Senses
Use this activity to introduce students to the iPad and as a story extension to the tale of the Gingerbread Man.
Gingerbread Man
Students engage in exercise activities that are presented using the iPad.
Health & Fitness
Student practice reading and writing sight words while creating special heart messages.
Hearts
Students sort and classify leaves into similar groups and then explain their reasoning.
Leaves
Students use the iPad to write a New Year's resolution.
New Year
Students create and record images about what lives in the ocean.
Ocean Life
Students use the iPad to annotate photos and connect plants with beginning letter sounds.
Plants
This activity explores the fairy tale of "The Princess and the Pea" using a video link and craft activity. Students practice retelling skills.
Princess & the Pea
Students order events and tell about their trip to the pumpkin patch.
Pumpkins
Children locate, photograph, and trace shapes found in the world around them.
Shapes
Students write about the season of spring using photos as prompts for their writing.
Spring
Students get to hear an author perform his story and participate in a fun retelling of the story.
Teddy Bears
Students record their thoughts and ideas about transportation using the iPad.
Transportation
Students use the iPad to record their thoughts and feelings surrounding the holiday of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving
Use the iPad during center time with this weather and season app to practice discrimination and categorization.
Weather & Seasons
Use the iPad to search for facts about animals and to create a class movie.
Wild Animals
Students practice subtraction word problems.
Winter