For the month of September, our Green Room students only needed to use one app!  The Very Hungry Caterpillar-Shapes & Colors is a wonderful app that has over 50 puzzles in six categories!  Within this app, children will learn to recognize basic shapes and colors, sort and match, work on patterning and sequencing, and much more!

Our Pre-K and Jr. K rooms put their problem-solving skills to the test this month.  With the award-winning app Thinkrolls 2, children navigated through obstacles and solved puzzles (over 200 of them!) to find their Thinkroll friend that is waiting for them at the finish line.

After working on their problem-solving skills with the app on the iPad, our Pre-K and Jr. K IPS students dove right into coding!  With the use of coding apps and our coding robot, the BeeBot, students will learn about concepts such as sequencing, estimation, problem solving, and directions.

For our first lesson in coding, the children were exposed to directional words (forward/straight, backwards, left, right).  To do this, we played a game which did not require the use of an iPad or Bee-Bot. First, rows of circles were lined up on the floor to form a grid. To play the game, one student started at the front of the grid as the robot.  The other children then gave the robot directions (code) to follow so they can get to the exit.  The robot can either step forward/straight one circle, backward a circle, or they can turn to the left or turn to the right. The goal of the game was to navigate through the “cave” to  the exit without touching the floor! This was such a fun way for the children to learn their directional words that they have asked to play this game next week too!