Kilgore's Kindergarten Communicator

PBS Parents Play & Learn is a FREE iPad app designed for parents to use with their children. The appoffers thirteen games put into settings that parents and their children are likely to go to together. Some of the settings are a library, a park, a restaurant, and a grocery store. The games are intended to help children learn to count and spell. Along with each game there is a set of four activities that parents can do with their children in each setting. For example, one of the suggested grocery store activities is to introduce children to the concept of weight and measuring things in the produce section of the grocery store.

It's the 2nd day of Kindergarten and you are busy teaching procedures like how to walk in the hallway and how to sit in the cafeteria. What is the next logical procedure to learn? Well, in my class, it's how to work the iPads! We learned how to handle the iPads and basic maneuvering of the device. These digital natives had it down in no time and were masters in just 30 minutes. I am excited to see what we are going to do with them this year!

Not only am I cleaning out and organizing my classroom, but I am doing the same with all of my blogs. You may only subscribe to this one, but I now am authoring 4 different blogs. Yesterday, I added, removed and moved around gadgets and posted on all of my blogs. To those faithful readers, do you see the changes that I made on this one?

(Pause for a minute to check it out...)

The right side has a lot less "stuff" and I added a cool Facebook "like" gadget. On the left side, I added a "Follow me on Pinterest" tag and I added pages to my blog. I learned about pages this year (but had little time to add them) and I love the idea of having a few places to add "static" information similar to a webpage. I added the following pages:

• 2012-2013 Class Information - I plan to use this page for my contact information, class schedule, class list, etc.
• Professional Biography / Philosophy of Teaching - When I was awarded "Teacher of the Year" on my campus, I had to write both of these essays for the district competition. I worked very hard on them and poured out my heart on soul on those pages. I want to share a little bit of me with you.
• Commerce ISD - This is a link to the main page of the Commerce ISD website.

I will probably think of more pages, (heck, I have a few ideas brewing already) but this is what I have for now. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think!