Our first-grade teachers, Sally Laha and Laura Carew, recently taught a very interesting unit. The objective was to help the students learn about good dental health while applying their knowledge of the alphabet. The assessment included image creation and application by writing a sentence using their dental knowledge with their assigned alphabet letter.
Technology was used when the students drew images and wrote their sentences in Windows Journal on tablet computers. The teachers printed each Journal page to create their alphabet book. A digital version was also posted in Prezi for parents to view from home.
As a follow-up activity, the students used Kidspiration to create a diagram where they pulled image symbols onto the canvas, one for each letter of the alphabet (e.g., T for a tiger image). An additional learning objective was to have students further their understanding of how we categorize information using the library categories in Kidspiration (e.g., Ocean Life, Transportation).
It was something to hear the collaboration as the students searched in the different categories of the symbol library, sharing, “I found a ‘P’ picture in the animal library! Has anyone found a Q?” It was also something to see the students who did some lateral thinking as they went into the US States category to use state names to match their letters. Too bad no state name starts with “Q”. 🙂
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