Promethean Board | Mrs. Anton's Class!
Fun with our Promethean Handheld Devices!
We have been having a lot of fun using the handheld devices that came with our Promethean Board.
We won the devices and the Promethean board last year in the annual MindShare Learning Digital Video Challenge contest. I wish the sponsors of the contest could come and see how much we love using our board and the handhelds.
We are a very lucky classroom!
We have had a lot of fun practicing our math and reading skills using the devices and some games that I managed to download for us.
The devices look a bit like little cell phones and the children are absolutely fearless about using them!
I love it when they cheer when everyone gets the answer!
More Hour of Code Fun with Elsa!
We have continued to learn about coding with the Hour of Code designed for this year! This is a great set of lessons about coding with Elsa from the Frozen movie. The students learned how to make Elsa make a snowflake design on the ice using coding. By putting a set of commands using Blockly the students made Elsa move on the ice.
We are so lucky because we can show this on our wonderful Promethean board so that everyone can see it clearly. The best part is that the students can come up to the board and move the pieces around themselves. You can bet that I have a lot of volunteers for that job!
We have also returned to the computer lab and worked on the Angry Birds Hour of Code and had a lot of fun trying to complete the Hour of Code by ourselves with just a little help from some wonderful students in our Grade Seven class who helped the students log on. It was really neat to see everyone helping each other out whenever someone got stumped!
It was really neat to see other classes in our school also try the Hour of Code. I think we had five classes at our school take part!