What it is: A Day at the Park asks students to position characters at a park and then construct sentences about their placement or movement. Students can construct the statements by using a word bank, or the word bank can be hidden. This is a great activity for students to practice describing words.
How to integrate iboard: A Day at the Park into the classroom: A Day at the Park was created to be used with an interactive whiteboard. To use it with an interactive whiteboard or projector, invite students up to manipulate the characters in the park scene. Then ask other students to describe their positions and movements by constructing sentences below the scene. This would also make an excellent literacy center activity. Send students to the classroom computers in pairs where they can take turns placing characters and describing their positions.
Tips: iboard has a variety of activities for the interactive whiteboard that can be purchased. A Day at the Park is one of their freebie samples.
Leave a comment and share how you are using iboard: A Day at the Park in your classroom.
This would make a great literacy center! Thanks for sharing so many wonderful ideas!
Love the ideas – we have windows computers at our school and a smartboard, but some of these ideas can be adapted to other activities including online games
I’m fortunate to have a SMART board in the back of my room which I use as high-interest center activity, especially with my English Language Learners. This is a perfect center activity and I’ll be integrating this when I get back in the classroom next week. Any idea if iBoard is a subscription model? Are there templates to play with, too? Wonder if you can import your own images, clip art, etc… Looks really interesting!
How do the SpellingCity games look on the Promethean board?
I hope they look great because we made a special effort this past fall to rebuild HangMouse, Word UnScramble, MatchIt, and the others so that they expand to look GREAT on the projection boards.
I watched a class play a WILD game of SpeedySpeller on a Promothean Board the other day.
Trying to get children to dig deep and use descriptive words is tough to do at an early age. iBoard appears that it would enhance a lesson and help students with directional vocabulary and forming sentences. This would be a great addition to any elementary classroom. As a third grade teacher, it is definitely something I will work with to build into future lessons. After trying out the different activities, it is very kid friendly. It is nice that it allows the child to manipulate several different objects to help retrieve the answer. Students are given the visual demonstration, if needed, which is nice for students who need this.