Kahoot? Kahoot!

We have been using Kahoot in the classroom and absolutely love it! Do you Kahoot? Click here to learn more about this awesome site. 

All you need to do is create a free account and follow the instructions to make a multiple choice quiz that your students can answer on their own devices. The best part is that students can log into the quiz really easily (a great advantage if you are working with little ones since they can be really slow). From a web browser, they type in "Kahoot.it". You, the teacher, logs into your Kahoot account and display the quiz number. Students then type in the quiz number, create a user name and join the quiz. You display the question on your interactive whiteboard and the children's iPads show them four option buttons. They click on their answer and once everyone has entered a choice, the correct answer is revealed.

This is what students see on their iPad screens.

You can also put a time limit on each question. The best part of this experience was taking my S3 students (Grade 2) up to S6 (Grade 5) to teach them how to Kahoot! It was a great experience and a real boost for the little ones.

We've used Kahoot to review telling time questions and parts of speech. It really gets kids excited, even if the topic isn't something that normally gets their motors running. It's great as a plenary-type activity and also as an introductory activity to see what they already know.

Upper Primary Numeracy Evening

As a way to reach out to students, my department decided to host a Numeracy Evening for parents of our students. Each teacher in the department (S3 and S4 in one area, S5 and S6 in another) taught a math concept that we thought the parents would benefit from learning too. I know it was tricky to learn all of the methods that we teach nowadays, so I'm sure some parents are really confused by their kids homework. Here are some of the stations we taught in S3 and S4:
Ms. Levere: division with sharing
Mrs. L: chunking method
Miss P: the grid method
Miss T: partitioning
Mrs. A: adding and subtracting on a number line
Mrs. D: different ways to use a 100 chart

Mrs. D used one of our favourite online resources that we use a lot in the first few weeks of school. Check it out here: Splat Square.

Although there weren't many parents in attendance, they were all really pleased with the information they received.