Helpful Harvest: Make Worksheets Come Alive

We are 21 days into our Helpful Harvest series here at the Primary Peach and I have learned so much from my fellow Peaches!  What an amazing group of educators!!  I'm Meghan from Keeping Up with Mrs. Harris and today, I decided to integrate a technology tip for you that will make your children scream with excitement!  Seriously, go ahead and know that it will be loud in your classroom during this activity!  

YES!  Let's make those worksheets come ALIVE!  You are going to be just as excited as your students when you see this in person!  Checkout the steps below!

Head on over to Quiver Vision's website.  First, I would love for you to watch the video so you can see for yourself the fun that you and your students are in for.  Then at the top of the site, click "Education".  This will take you to the page with the downloadable worksheets that are available.  There are a ton of science and social studies content related pages and some just for fun.  These are perfect for your writing class.  Let them pick their own page for a fun write, read the passage on the worksheet and get them writing.  I say, save the "come to life" part for the very end and just see their excitement!

Students color their pictures with regular crayons or markers!  They can use any colors that they would like to, the app can change between their colors and the real life colors of the object or animal.

Download the app to your iPad.  Now, this is the sad part...it isn't free.  There is a free version, but it only has a couple of worksheets that work with it.  However, I can tell you that the full version is well worth the $7.99.

I let my son color and scan his picture this week for the first time and he seriously dropped the iPad!  When his bug jumped off the page he screamed and then started laughing.  After that, we had to print off nearly every picture from the site just so he could see what they would do.  AND he is only 4!!!  Another feature of the app that I love is that there is an recording of information for some of the pictures as well.  So kids are learning even after their scan!  

Isn't this amazing?  I couldn't think of a better way to be "helpful" than share this with you just in time for the holiday craziness!  You can use this as a time filler during all those stressful moments between now and Christmas.  :)  Enjoy!

Fall Favorites and Freebies- The Elementary Darling

Happy Fall Y'all! It's Erin from The Elementary Darling!

This month we are sharing our Fall favorites and a Freebie every day! 

I LOVE these books. Fall is a great time for books, and these are a few of my favorites.

I am lucky enough to be a 1:1 iPad classroom and these are some of the apps we will use this fall! Below I will give you some examples of how you can use these great  FREE apps!

Popplet- Popplet is a great app and it has so many uses. The students could create popplets on fall words or books. They could identify the main idea and details or story elements of the fabulous stories above.

Book Creator Free- This would be great for a fall themed book or to review a book that you read to the students.

Kidspiration Lite- Kidspiration is great for organizers of many kinds! There are cute pumpkin pictures that you could use to make a venn diagrams, charts, or word webs. 

Alphabet Organizer- Alphabet organizer is great for so many reasons! I have used it for nouns and proper nouns. The students put a word that starts with each letter of the alphabet in the spaces. This would be cute to create an alphabet activity on fall words!

Theme Poem- In the theme poem app, there is a leaf that the students can write a poem about. It is very user friendly. The students just type their words, and it publishes the poem on the leaf.

Epic- Epic is a great place for the kids to read different books. You can look up books by a title or just search what they have. There are many fall books that your students can read.

Now it is time for your FREEBIE!

We are working on graphing this week and I love this Fall Favorites Graph! Click here to grab it for free or click on the picture. Happy Fall Friends!

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Using Pic Collage in your classroom

Hey Y'all!

It's Erin from The Elementary Darling.

Today I am back for Technology Tuesday :)

 I can't wait to talk to you about using a super simple app. Most of us have used the Pic collage app or something similar to create collages of our animals, kids, or other things. Have you ever thought of having the students use this app? Let me tell you, there are SO many ways for the kids to use this app. After a quick lesson on HOW to use the app, most of the kids were better at me than using the app.

Today, after learning about parts of a plant, my students used their iPads to create a pic collage of the parts of a plant. They really turned out cute. We took a walk around the school and I gave them free reign on pictures except the roots. I didn't want them pulling up every plant we had :)

You could use this for landforms, facts about people, or so many others! In reading we used this to show text features.

In math, we used pic collage to show different amounts of money.

Thanks for stopping in to see these different ideas. How can you use this app in your classroom? I would love to hear the ways you could use this. Comment below to share your great ideas!

Have a great rest of the week!

Using the Trading Card app to teach Social Studies

Hello Fabulous Followers!

It's Erin from The Elementary Darling. Welcome to day three of our blog :) 

We are so excited that you have stopped by !

Today is our first post for Technology Tuesday and I will be talking about how I use the Trading Card app for my students to learn Social Studies!

Just a little recap, I teach first grade Advanced Content and Gifted students. I am constantly looking for new ways to make Social Studies interesting. I know we aren't the only grade with a ton of people to learn about, so this app allows for some creativity while learning. One great thing about the Trading Card app is that it is FREE! Free, my friends, you can't beat that! It is also made by readwritethink.org so you know that it is going to be a great resource!

Basically you can use this for SO many different things, but the feature that I want to show you today is the "Real Person" feature. As you can tell from the picture, you could use this for characters in a book, a place you are learning about (Georgia of course :)) or any other wonderful topics!

First you click the card you would like to make. I chose Real Person. Then type in your topic name into the card title. This week we are learning about George Washington Carver.

Next, you  create a new card.

Then, you type in your information. Some of the information may be harder for younger students, so for my kiddos I skipped the quotes section. They can even change their card design, which they love!

Front of the card

Back of the card

These can be emailed or saved. If your students have access to send them, it really would be a great way to share with other students. Since my students are young, I had them complete this activity on paper before they typed them. It helps us organize our thoughts. 

I created a freebie just for you guys! I hope you can use this for one of your lessons in the future!

(Please excuse my terrible drawing skills, the students haven't finished their papers yet.) ;)

Get your freebie here!