Free Play and Sharing our Creations

Today was the first day with my new class using the 'new' school iPads. I wanted to start with something simple that would combine our love of playing and sharing together.

Students 'created' something using the manipulatives in the classroom and the working together with a partner, they took a picture. Students loved to create things and then share what they had created.

Using Air Server, a projector and laptop, students were able to mirror their creations to show their classmates. We were able to mirror multiples devices at once to compare and contrast them.

I decided to keep things simple today and end there. Next class we are going to take our photos and choose our favourite to use for a writing task.

Free play

Students have free play time everyday. I think this time is critical for early primary students. Today, one student took it upon herself to make some houses out of wood. Then she took pictures of them and labelled them. Here is her work:

I can't tell you how excited I was to see a student using the iPads and creating her own activity. It was neat to see her making a connection between some of the things we have been doing and her own ideas.