Friday, March 13th has been declared globally as "Digital Learning Day". Since I am at a training tomorrow, we finished our project today! Digital Learning Day is a challenge that was sent out to the educational field to try and do an activity that uses technology to strengthen student skills and learning. As a teacher, I planned to retell a very familiar, very loved book titled Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin. This is a book that Miss Wood uses in Preschool, has kids fall in love with the main character, Pete, and we revisit often in Kindergarten. In the book, Pete steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and mud. We decided to take a step further and write an extended version of Pete the Cat, and this time use all of the colors that were not mentioned in the original. To do this, I had students all vote on what Pete could step in, draw pictures to depict the story, and then used the app "Little Bird Tales" to narrate the story. You will notice that we added our activity to the Digital Learning Day website (http://www.digitallearningday.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=11) so we could be included alongside of the thousands of other classrooms celebrating Digital Learning Day too! This truly was a great experience, and I hope to hear from any of the classrooms that view our stories.
Please enjoy these stories at home with your kinder. They were very excited and proud to complete this project! Also, feel free to thumb through the different lessons on the Digital Learning Day's website at home to bring more lessons to life for you and your kinder! Happy learning!
Story 1-http://www.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/502743
Story 2-http://www.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/502744
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