Online Storybook- Kindergarten

The next piece of technology for Kindergarten is listening to a storybook online.  These students have heard teachers read books to them all year long but now the computer is going to read them. Better yet, they are going to have to interact with it. In the Mac App Store, I downloaded the free app Grimms Red Riding Hood. I cannot say better things about it. The storybook is 3D and the words can be read to them or they can read the book themsleves. After every page the students have to interact with the book and complete a task that helps tell a story. For example, they need to clean Red Riding Hoods room before she leaves.

The Red Riding Hood App is free, the others are at a cost.
 


UPDATE: These are no available for the iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grimms-red-riding-hood-3d/id445388456?mt=8

Learning the Mouse with Kindergarten

As technology is becoming more prominent at home, I'm finding my Kindergarten students are coming in with less of an ability to use the mouse on the desktops.  Students are great at the iPads and some are even good at the trackpads on a laptop.  So I start my Kindergarten students with a few weeks of mouse games.

Bees and Honey
Mouse Speed
Connect the Dots
Mouse Maze