Mahalo nui for taking such good care of our school-issued iPads and charging them up before sending them back to school each week. Please remind keiki to wash their hands before using it and especially to not eat while using it.
Papa Honu iPad Shortcut: You’ve probably already seen it, but just FYI we put a shortcut to our Papa Honu Bitmoji Virtual Classroom on your keiki’s iPad home screen. We’ve talked about this tool for months and now keiki have repeatedly watched us navigate through it to access resources and tools during Zoom so they are familiar with using it. Keiki can tap on certain items on the page that link to story videos, games, songs, etc. If your keiki changes the page by accident, tap the Honu in the bottom right corner to go back to the front page and begin navigation again. Every once in a while, open up the Google Chrome internet browser and close tabs your keiki opened while browsing our Bitmoji Virtual Classroom.
QOTD iPad Shortcut: We’ve also added a shortcut on the iPad to our Question of the Day Jamboard. Jamboard is like a virtual whiteboard, a collaborative tool that is accessible to multiple users both asynchronously and synchronously over the internet. Tapping this shortcut will open the Jamboard in a tab on the Google Chrome web browser and you will see a board with keiki photos along the sides, the day’s question and a graphic across the top, and a blue post-it note at the bottom center indicating today’s date. The board is split into two sections, Yes👍🏼 and No👎🏼. When keiki are not reporting to school, they may use the QOTD shortcut to answer the question of the day before our daily Zoom. Otherwise, Kumu will move their photo for them as they answer during circle time. NOTE: Please stress to keiki that they may only move their own photo, not their friends’ photos. (This is also the rule at school for all of their photo-related things.)
New App: We added another learning app to your keiki’s iPad called Code-a-pillar. It is a beginning coding game for keiki. Coding is basically breaking down instructions to tell a computer what to do. In this case, the code is using directional arrows to direct a caterpillar (the “computer”) that needs to get from point A to point B. Check it out with your keiki when you have a chance.
Yay! Okay, that’s it for now. So hard to believe we are about to start our last month of school. 😱