Overview before the week;
This coming week we will focus on shapes and colors again with Jay*. This will also be the last week I will be recording my implementation of using app's on the iPad with Jay*. I will most defiantly continue using these apps with him in the future.
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This week Jay* worked on his counting skills using the EduKitty.
This application works ons many different preschool skills. However in the app you can costumize what you would like the student to work on and the level. I left colors, left to right, and biggest for Jay* to work on. After completely tasks correctly, Jay* got to give himself a stamp on the app. This app is something I would use in the future and can add or take away subjects he masters or struggles with. Over all I would rate this app 5 stars, because there is so many ways you can customize it to your students level.
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Week Seven -- April 4th -- iPad Project
Overview before the week;
This coming week we will focus on writing and tracing again with Jay*. It is easy to see that Jay* knows his ABC's by singing the song, but we want to continue working on his skill of writing the letters and knowing what they look like.
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This week Jay* worked on his counting skills using the EduKitty ABC.
This application works on ABC's but also tracing. We used this app for the tracing feature it has. It lets the student choose between upper case and lower case. It shows you the letter and once you trace it, it adds it to your own dashboard with all your writing. This is great because it shows Jay's* work all collected, and it shows him that he can write out his ABC's all by himself. I would rate this a 4 stars, because the tracing is great, but there is also more games in the app that we could further use.
This coming week we will focus on writing and tracing again with Jay*. It is easy to see that Jay* knows his ABC's by singing the song, but we want to continue working on his skill of writing the letters and knowing what they look like.
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This week Jay* worked on his counting skills using the EduKitty ABC.
This application works on ABC's but also tracing. We used this app for the tracing feature it has. It lets the student choose between upper case and lower case. It shows you the letter and once you trace it, it adds it to your own dashboard with all your writing. This is great because it shows Jay's* work all collected, and it shows him that he can write out his ABC's all by himself. I would rate this a 4 stars, because the tracing is great, but there is also more games in the app that we could further use.
Week Six -- March 28th -- iPad Project
Overview before the week;
This coming week we will focus on counting again with Jay*. It is easy to see that Jay* understands the concept of counting and knows his numbers, but we are still working on making sure they are numerically in the correct order, as well as one-to-one correspondence.
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This week Jay* worked on his counting skills using the Pirate Fun 123.
This application works on numerically counting to 10 in the correct order. The app is more of an interactive picture maker, however instead of drawing, the child using number counting to connect the dots. As you connect the dots, it not only highlights in red the next number, but it says the number aloud. Each set of 10 dots you connect, it adds another item to the picture. Jay* really like this app, he started by enjoying the pictures, but after working with the app, he eventually started counting the numbers out loud with the app. This was great because it showed me he was understanding what he was doing. And after repetition, I asked him to count to 10, and he got all of the numbers correct in the correct numerical order. I would rate this app 5 stars, for it truly worked on the skills he needed.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Week Five -- March 21st -- iPad Project
Overview before the week;
These coming weeks will be the repeat process of practicing certain skills. This week will be the first time repeating his ABC's. I will continue using one application per week. Jay* is back at home in his own house and will be able to have a full time of using his own iPad for this application.
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This week Jay* worked on his ABC's skills using the ABC Jungle Words for preschoolers.
This application works on the identification of words and pictures. This is more then just ABC's but it is great practice for him to identify the beginning letters of these words and what the words look like in correspondence to the object. The application gives your a bunch of squares and the user needs to match them. Not until you match them correctly does it say the word or image. At the beginning of using this application, I would read the word to Jay*, after practice, he started working on his own and truly working on looking at the beginning letter and looking at the images. I would give this app 3 stars. It was good, but still not as entertaining for Jay* as I would have hoped.
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This week Jay* worked on his ABC's skills using the ABC Jungle Words for preschoolers.
This application works on the identification of words and pictures. This is more then just ABC's but it is great practice for him to identify the beginning letters of these words and what the words look like in correspondence to the object. The application gives your a bunch of squares and the user needs to match them. Not until you match them correctly does it say the word or image. At the beginning of using this application, I would read the word to Jay*, after practice, he started working on his own and truly working on looking at the beginning letter and looking at the images. I would give this app 3 stars. It was good, but still not as entertaining for Jay* as I would have hoped.
Week Four -- March 14th -- iPad Project
Overview before the week;
I am going to continue working with one application a week. This weeks struggle will be seeing how Jay* acts differently when he is staying at his grandparents for the week. His parents are gone on vacation and I will be nannying him at the grandparents house instead. I know that they do not enjoy when their grandkids rely on their iPads for entertained, so I will need to speak to them prior to implementing the new application this week.
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This week Jay* worked on his Shapes skills using the App: Smart Baby Shapes Lite.
This application was simple in the way it worked on shapes and colors. Jay* seemed to like it, however it become repetitive. There are three different types of games within the application itself, as well as levels per game. Explaining the levels to Jay* made him eager to move on to the next one to keep going. The games were focused on colors, shapes, and sizes. Overall I liked this application, and would reuse to for review for Jay*. I would rate this application as 4 stars.
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This week Jay* worked on his Shapes skills using the App: Smart Baby Shapes Lite.
This application was simple in the way it worked on shapes and colors. Jay* seemed to like it, however it become repetitive. There are three different types of games within the application itself, as well as levels per game. Explaining the levels to Jay* made him eager to move on to the next one to keep going. The games were focused on colors, shapes, and sizes. Overall I liked this application, and would reuse to for review for Jay*. I would rate this application as 4 stars.
Week Three -- February 29th -- iPad Project
Overview before the week;
This week was a major eye-opener for me in this project. Jay* asked me way he had to switch between applications, and honestly I did not have a great answer for his question. It was easy for me to see that once he enjoyed one application, he did not want to move on to another. This made me think about changing my original plan for using two applications a week, to just one. This way he can enjoy that one application, and use the other ones later when we review a topic.
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This week Jay* worked on his Writing/Tracing skills using the ABC Sight Words Writing.
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This week Jay* worked on his Writing/Tracing skills using the ABC Sight Words Writing.
This app needed more of my assistance in the way it was set up. Due to being the free and basic version, it has limited amount of sight words to trace over. The app opens up to the first word and you need to trace it. On the left side it where you can scroll through the list of words and move onto the next one. This is where I needed to instruct Jay*. Also this app does not have sound. I wish it would read the word aloud before you were to trace it. I would read the word to Jay* and he would trace, and then we would move on to the next one. I would rate this app a 2 and probably not reuse it. I wanted to see how Jay* did with this skill but he seemed bored and frustrated.
Week Two -- February 22nd -- iPad Project
Overview before this week;
This week we will be moving on to counting! I already know that numbers have been introduced to him at his Montessori school, however once he gets past 6 or 7, he tends to just list of names of numbers and not in the correct order. I'm hoping not only to work on correctly counting up, but also working on the concept of one-to-one correspondents.
We will be continuing to work on our iPad use and staying on task for these short periods of time. Jay* is at his grandparents house all week, so this could also have a factor about how this affects his use of his iPad.
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This week we used:
The first app, was very simple with its design. The same image is scattered throughout the screen and you have to touch to images to count them. As you touch them to count, the program helps read the counting process out loud as well as labels the image the number you counted it as. Once you have counted all the images, a caterpillar comes across the bottom of the screen also with the total numbers word spelled out. This way the child can see the numerical value, as well as the written.
For the second app, I chose 123 Kids Fun GAMES free, which is meant to be the more interactive fun game app of the week. The major differences between the first app and the second is that the second feels more game like with its interactions. There is more a visually stimulating interactive way of counting for the user. The great thing about this app is after seeing that Jay* enjoys it, thus I can reuse it for another week but focus on another skill. When looking for apps for this week, I did notice there were many that had multiple topics within one app. This mean this could be something I look back at later and add to my list of apps.
This week I would rate the first app as 4 stars, and the second as 5 stars. I liked the first one because of its simplicity. It does exactly what it needs to do, and yet also assisted the child on the learning process even if they are still grasping counting from the beginning. This app was great for Jay* because he know the act of counting and what each numbers name, however tends to mess them up in the correct order. I liked the second one a lot because I could reuse it for other topics other then just counting.
This week we will be moving on to counting! I already know that numbers have been introduced to him at his Montessori school, however once he gets past 6 or 7, he tends to just list of names of numbers and not in the correct order. I'm hoping not only to work on correctly counting up, but also working on the concept of one-to-one correspondents.
We will be continuing to work on our iPad use and staying on task for these short periods of time. Jay* is at his grandparents house all week, so this could also have a factor about how this affects his use of his iPad.
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This week we used:
- Toddlers Counting 123- Free
- 123 Kids Fun GAMES Free (counting)
The first app, was very simple with its design. The same image is scattered throughout the screen and you have to touch to images to count them. As you touch them to count, the program helps read the counting process out loud as well as labels the image the number you counted it as. Once you have counted all the images, a caterpillar comes across the bottom of the screen also with the total numbers word spelled out. This way the child can see the numerical value, as well as the written.
For the second app, I chose 123 Kids Fun GAMES free, which is meant to be the more interactive fun game app of the week. The major differences between the first app and the second is that the second feels more game like with its interactions. There is more a visually stimulating interactive way of counting for the user. The great thing about this app is after seeing that Jay* enjoys it, thus I can reuse it for another week but focus on another skill. When looking for apps for this week, I did notice there were many that had multiple topics within one app. This mean this could be something I look back at later and add to my list of apps.
This week I would rate the first app as 4 stars, and the second as 5 stars. I liked the first one because of its simplicity. It does exactly what it needs to do, and yet also assisted the child on the learning process even if they are still grasping counting from the beginning. This app was great for Jay* because he know the act of counting and what each numbers name, however tends to mess them up in the correct order. I liked the second one a lot because I could reuse it for other topics other then just counting.
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