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I am so excited for a few reasons!  Reason 1 - school year is done and it's summer vacation...I get to have a little breather/break.  Reason 2 - I have just finished creating my fourth Android app and can't wait to use it in my class next year! This app is based on a math activity I do with my students once we get to adding combinations of 5 in the classroom.  I created the following template for two players. Each player takes turns rolling the dice and if they get one of the combinations of 5, they get to cover that combination.  The first player to cover all the combinations wins.  I also make my students state what they have rolled out loud and add it up.  If they don't do that, they loose a turn.  The other player is very keen on getting that extra turn so they are really good at making sure their partner does say the combination rolled.   I have been toying with the idea of how I could make a math app that the kids can use on the t...

Hi everyone, I am loving MIT App Inventor.  I have now created my third app and am excited to share the details with you. Dot Plate Memory Games i s an app that will help boost your students’ memory and practice subitizing at the same time. Memory games can help improve students’ concentration, boost brain functionality, train visual memory, increase short-term memory, help keep focus and increase attention.  Subitizing is being able to instantly recognize how many dots there are in a group.  Subitizing helps students form mental pictures of numbers and realize that a number can be represented in many ways. This is a perfect app for your students to “warm up” their brain before your math lessons or during math centres.  How it works: There are 9 games in total.   Games 1, 2, and 3 focus only on four numbers at one time (easy level).   Games 4 and 5 focus on six numbers at one time (medium level).   Games 6, 7, 8 and 9 focus on e...

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...