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If you are a kindergarten teacher who taught during the pandemic, you likely have a wide variety of digital activities on hand. Even though the days of distance learning are over, these digital learning activities can still be an engaging part of your lesson plans. In this post, I’m going to share some fun ways to use digital activities for kindergarten skill practice.
Digital learning activities are a great way to enhance your lesson plans with engaging skill practice. Young students require a lot of repetition with new skills in order to master them. Adding digital activities to the mix can help you keep this skill practice fresh and engaging!
Here are ten different ways that you can use digital activities for kindergarten skill practice:
If you’re looking for a low-prep option for morning work, digital activities are a great fit! If your students have iPads, Chromebooks, or other devices, they can quickly grab them and get right to work after arriving. This is a great way to add important skill review into your daily seat work routine. You could also incorporate digital morning work on a particular day of the week and use morning work printables for the rest of the week. Ultimately, you can decide on a routine that works best for your classroom!
A quick academic review task is a great way to welcome your students to school during your morning meeting! While you have your students gathered at the carpet, you can display a digital literacy or math activity on the smart board and invite students to come up and help you complete it. Seasonal review slides are perfect for this! The themed graphics always grab their attention and it gives you a great opportunity to review seasonal vocabulary with your students, as well.
If you target specific skills during small group skill practice, digital activities are a way to add some variety to that targeted repetition. You can display the digital activity on a tablet or interactive whiteboard and have the students work together to complete the activity. You could also have students work independently as you monitor and give feedback.
Digital activities are also a great way to enhance your whole group instruction! Could your students use a little more practice with a particular concept before starting on independent practice? Pull up a digital activity for some additional practice! To keep students engaged, you could have them “drag and drop” the objects on the slide in the air while students come up one at a time to complete the activity on the board.
Using centers in kindergarten requires many different activity stations! A digital activity is a perfect low-prep station option for literacy and math centers. Students are always so engaged in the digital activities, they won’t even realize they’re hard at work! Plus, the digital activities are easy to “reset” when it’s time to move on to the next center activity.
If it works for your particular group of students, you could utilize digital activities as an option for early finishers. Students can be engaged in meaningful skill practice while they wait for the next classroom activity to begin. Since the digital activities are always such a hit with students, you’ll just want to watch to make sure you don’t have students who are rushing through their work to get to the tablet!
Digital activities can give students the chance to apply what they’ve been learning to a new task. Knowing how to generalize their knowledge to a new format is an important step in learning a new concept. You can use digital activities as an informal assessment to monitor student learning.
Digital learning activities are a great way to encourage skill practice at home! Students can access digital activities from any device, making it easy for you to put together an engaging routine of at-home skill practice.
A great way to observe holidays and special seasons is with a classroom party! However, learning doesn’t have to take a backseat in order to celebrate a holiday together as a class. A great way to incorporate skill practice during a class party is to have students rotate through a variety of different stations with themed learning activities. Seasonal digital activities can be a great addition to your party stations!
No matter how carefully you plan your school day, there are often small pockets of time that materialize throughout the day. Whether it’s a schoolwide assembly that went long or an activity that took less time than planned, you might find yourself needing to adjust your daily schedule. Since digital learning activities require no prep, they can come to the rescue in these situations! You’ll be able to make the most of your daily schedule without having to run to the copy machine at the last minute.
If you’re looking for some fresh digital activities to use in your classroom, I have you covered! I have put together a bundle of 307 digital activities for kindergarten. These digital activities will give your students time to review important skills in an interactive way that keeps them engaged and on track.
This bundle is organized by month, so you’ll have themed activities to last you all year! Plus, the literacy and math activities follow the typical learning sequence of the kindergarten school year. You and your students will love these digital kindergarten activities! Just click below to find them in the A Spoonful of Learning shop or on TPT.
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These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!
