Why make students write a story when they can draw it for a change? Digital tools for classroom like Pixton boost the children’s visual thinking and creativity while it engages them to the fullest. This tool allows little and big students to make comics and storyboards. This activity can be both educational and fun. If you are an educator, you can try Pixton for free before introducing it to your kids. A perfect tool to boost children imagination.

.Digital cameras – can be used to take photos of their creative play and to exchange ideas. By supporting them in their use you will also be able to encourage them to reflect on the photos they have taken.

First, you can create a separate profile for every kid, which other apps may offer too but here you can select content according to the age, ranging from ( preschool age 2- 2^nd grade).

On the home screen kids can learn the fun-filled lessons the way the app has designed it. And it's wonderfully appropriate. But for more specific lessons and activities, just click on the teeny tiny icon of the library on the top left corner. Only the icon is tiny. But the ocean of content it has is very vast, amazing, fun-filled, easy to learn, and appropriate. In simple: PERFECT. 

In the library, you'll find icons for books, videos, create, offline, letters, reading, math, and logic.

·         Library :

Has a vast range of books, and kids can select the option “ read to me “ or “ read by myself”. They can practice reading with this part of the app. Books are about :

·   NON-FICTION,  all of the KUW topic-related short reading books.

·   STORIES WITH LESSONS

·   2^ND GRADE EARLY READERS

·   1S GRADE EARLY READERS

·   EARLY READERS

·   BOOKS ABOUT FEELINGS: PSED is completely covered here

·   NUMBER BOOKS

·   CHARACTER STORIES

·   ANIMAL SAFARI

·   DINOSAURS

·   SUPER CUTE:  all about baby animals

·   BACKYARD WILDLIFE

·   PLAYFUL PETS

·   VEHICLES

·   SCIENCE

·   GEOGRAPHY

·   NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YUNG EXPLORER

·   ALPHABET BOOKS

 

·      VIDEOS:  the videos are according to age group. 

 

1.       For kindergarten and pre-kindergarten they have 

·         Super simple songs

·         Early counting

·         Early shapes and measurement

·         Early reading and language

·         Letter sounds

·         Letters

2.       For 1^st grade they have

·         1^st-grade math: ten frames, add, subtract, measure, clock, halves and quarters, 10 and more, base ten blocks

 

·         1^st grade reading all about sentences and grammar .so many types of nouns, verbs, adjectives, articles, etc

 

·         Yoga & movement

 

3.       For 2^nd grade has videos according to their level wonderful learning videos for maths and ll.

·         CREATE: where they can draw and color in so many ways.

 

·         OFFLINE: has some offline stuff for nonstop learning.

 

·         LETTERS: It’s a vast sea of age-appropriate activities to teach and learn all about letters and sounds( FROM FORMATION TO CVC WORDS).

·         READING:  for reading, you can also select age for age-appropriate content (WONDERFUL FUN FILLED OCEAN OF KNOWLEDGE STUDENTS CAN LISTEN OR READ BY THEMSELVES).

·         MATH:  According to age so many fun-filled mathematical concepts learning and practicing activities.

·         LOGIC: This has age-appropriate so many AMAZING INTERACTIVE activities for :

Focus, memory, and flexible thinking

Social-emotional development

Physical development

Healthy habits

(the whole of PSED covered here)

Features of this app are super smart, they have divided all the sounds into groups of six. The first is 'satpin'. And with the procession of sound groups, they start teaching how to blend and read words. The best part is the voice-over does the whole blending and reading of the word, students can listen and blend and practice properly. The action of the sound, formation, jolly phonic jingle for that particular sound and story is also there to practice.

Tricky words are also divided into 6 groups. Students can tap on the word, the voiceover will read and they can repeat with it until they learn.

Some other features are also there which are paid. I didn’t explore those.

I find both apps very helpful.

In this feature, they can form words with the given arkan which will directly match with its picture if formed correctly and the voice-over reads it.