Update in progress...apps, apps, apps

I recently discovered that I can add links to my google docs iPad/iPhone apps list. Beginning today I'm going to be changing all of it over so that if an app sounds interesting to you, all you have to do is scroll over the title and a link to the app in itunes will appear. This will make it much easier for everyone to find the exact app I'm talking about. Hopefully this process won't take too long! Here is the link back to my page iPad/iPhone apps :) If you have an app that you really love, please, please, please, leave a comment below. I'm always looking for new apps!!!

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Gingerbread Man

Our week spent on The Gingerbread Man...went on a hunt around the school looking for him and found him on our playground where we got to eat him like the fox did. Other places we visited were the library, office, cafeteria, special areas, nurse, guidance counsler office, and the principals office.

This was our gingerbread man board with the crafts we made this week.










Our gingerbread man glyphs tell us a little bit more about ourselves. 

You can download the glyph key here.

Our writing project included finding a magazine picture they wanted their decorated gingerbread person to run away from. They came up with some creative ideas...




We also read as many different versions as I could find, compared and contrasted them, then they got to pick their favorite one and we made it into a class graph to see which book won.





***For those with idevices...we also played on an app with the gingerbread man. Check it out in the app store here. They get to make it then decorate it...and of course eat it when they're done!


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Shutterfly

My wonderful colleague, Mrs. I, has introduced me to another amazing website. Shutterfly.com is a great way to share pictures. It's private and people can only access your pictures if you add their email address to the account. I created my account thinking that was all you could do, but found out you can add a calendar which will send out email reminders to parents for field trips, volunteer schedule, birthdays, holiday parties, and so much more. Plus, parents can download and upload photos to the site too. This is yet another new thing that I will have to keep up with this school year, but I'm excited to see how it all works out. I also just found a free shutterfly ipad app. Love those apps!!!

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ipad/iphone apps

I've spent all summer looking for great free ipad apps and have found so many that I created a spreadsheet for them. Most apps I found from the internet or posts on blogs so I think it's only fair that I too share my findings. Since this is the first year I'll be using an ipad in the classroom I'm not quite sure which ones will be used the most. For that reason I will eventually put my top picks in bold. I've also created a page at the top of my screen so that you can easily see my updates to this list. Enjoy!!! =) 

(updated 9/4/11)

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