Tuesday, May 19, 2015

QR Codes

This QR code will take my parents directly to our school districts website. This is a QR code that I can post on my classroom blog at the beginning of the year so ensure parents know about our websites and all of the resources that it has. A lot of times the school system website can answer questions for parents and can be accessed anytime.

This QR code is for a website my students use in the classroom that has literacy games. They can play math or reading games. These games help with letter recognition, letter naming, sight words, addition, subtraction, and place value to name a few. It is levelized and can be used from grades K-6.

This QR code goes straight to my classroom blog. I would put this QR code on my newsletter each time I send one home and parents can use their phone or tablet and go straight to the blog and see what is happening in our classroom.


I have recently started using QR codes in my classroom. I have found several free QR code literacy activities to use in my reading centers in my classroom. One that I use has detectives on it with a QR code. The students scan the QR code and it connects to a lady telling them a sound. They have 2 choices on a piece of paper and they have to choose which word begins with the same sound that she said. This allows me to be working with other students but also have a person assisting students and complete a learning center. The students love using the QR readers and they are really learning literacy skills. I have hung some of the QR codes to sight words around the classroom, so they have to go on a hunt for the different numbers. For example, I will hang 10 around the room numbered 1-10. When they find them, they scan them. Once they scan them, someone says a sight word. They then have to spell the sight word on the correct line on their worksheet.


Saturday, May 16, 2015

Online Survey EIM 504

http://kwiksurveys.com/s/GzkScMt2

Poll for EIM 504

https://pollev.com/lisamorgan113

Since I teach Kindergarten, my students would have to have assistance from their parents to complete polls at home. After using this Poll website for the first time, I thought there is no way I could use this for my students in the classroom, since it is a poll that has to be taken from the URL.  I would love to use it for our daily data. I could send the web address home once a week as a different form of data we are going to collect and let students answer the question at home or on their parent's phone. We could discuss the data in class. Once students saw their peers doing this, I feel they would make the effort to answer the "Question of the Week" with their parents so they could be included in the data the class talks about. I also feel like I could use this as a poll for my parents when wondering about classroom situations. Loved learning about this new website and I want to share it with my colleagues.