Primary Flynn

Hi everyone, I am really excited to say I have created a second app for Android.   Elkonin Boxes is an app that can be used to help students build phonological awareness by segmenting words into phonemes.  Elkonin boxes help students increase their reading skills by challenging students to segment words into their individual sounds and syllables.  This app is perfect for a small guided reading group or one-on-one instruction with students.  How it works: The teacher picks a Set and selects the “Picture” button to show the first image.  The teacher or the student can press the “Word” button to listen to the word that goes with the image.  If the student needs to hear the word more than once, the student can press the “Word” button again.  The student pushes the counters into the elkonin boxes as they repeat the word and say each phoneme in the word.  2-phonemes Set 1 This set contains 13 pictures that are segment...

I was doing literacy centres with my students last week.  One of the centres had my students using letter tiles to make real and nonsense words.  The activity got me wishing that there was an app for this as I was running out letter tiles for each student.  Well, I decided to try and create one for my class.  And guess what, I did it!!  It is a fairly simple app which is what I wanted so it will be easy for me to use and my students to use. Below are screen shots of the app.   Title Page of the App - This will stay up for a few seconds then will automatically go to the HomePage Menu. HomePage Menu of the app HomePage Menu of the app - there are 7 centres/activities in total.                     Centre 1 - three letter words (cvc) Centre 1 - The teacher or student would touch the number 1 and a random letter will appear. Then the teacher or student would touch the number ...

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One of the math outcomes I need to cover for my Primary students is: N02 Students will be expected to recognize, at a glance, and name the quantity represented by familiar arrangements of 1 to 5 objects or dots. Performance Indicators N02.01 Look briefly at a given familiar arrangement of 1 to 5 objects or dots and identify the number represented without counting. N02.02 Identify the number represented by a given dot arrangement on a five-frame. This outcome works on subitizing.  Subitizing  is the ability to recognize, at a glance, a quantity of objects, without one-to-one counting. I work on this every day with my students during our mental math work.   I have made dot combination plates on paper that I print out and laminate and I also use PowerPoint presentations.  My students respond in a few ways: with fingers, with number cards I have provided them and/or using a whiteboard to write the number down.  I start off with the low...