Tech Play Recipe: Record Me A Story
Jessica, Coordinator of Early Literacy Programs, Coordinator of Early Literacy Programs
Record Me A Story You will need: Smartphone or tablet Free voice-recording/memo app or program Printable storytelling cards (optional) Process: This is a storytelling game! We’re going to tell a story and record it together. What will it be about? Who will the characters be? Will it be sad, scary, funny? How does a story start and end? Press “record” and start your story! Take turns—you can say “what happens next” to prompt your child. If using storytelling cards, take turns picking a card and using the image on the card to…
Tech Play Recipe: Color Hunt
Jessica, Coordinator of Early Literacy Programs, Coordinator of Early Literacy Programs
Color Hunt with Khan Academy Kids You will need: 1. Smartphone or tablet 2. Khan Academy Kids app 3. Logic Primary Colors game Process: Khan Academy Kids has a ton of FREE language, literacy and brain bulilding activities for children 2-5. Try the Primary Colors game to go on a color hunt together. Looking for colors helps hone observation skills! The game uses a song to teach color names! You can use this song in your daily routine to help teach different color words. Go on a REAL color hunt in your…
Tech Play Recipe: Sink or Float
Jessica, Coordinator of Early Literacy Programs, Coordinator of Early Literacy Programs
Tech Play Recipe: Sink or Float You will need: Smartphone or tablet PBS Kids Play and Learn Science App Low bin with water (optional) Varied objects that may sink or float (optional) Process: Be a scientist! Observe, ask questions, and test your hypothesis! Play the “Sink or Float” activity in the PBS Kids Play and Learn Science app. Ask questions like: what do you think will happen if? and why do you think that happened? Use words like: sink, float, heavy, light, buyoant, absorb Re-create the experiment with…
Tech Play Recipe: Digital Feelings Book
Introducing our first Tech Play Recipe blog post! This is a series of simple, easy to follow ways to use technology you have at home to creatively build on young children’s learning. As with everything we create, each activity includes one or more of the 5 early childhood skills young children need to engage in everyday to learn and explore the world around them: Reading, Playing, Talking, Writing, and Singing. Tech is a daily part of our lives, but we see children engaging in it more passively by watching a show, or using apps that mostly promote rote learning. Our Tech Recipes aim to…