BEE BOTS

We now have Bee-Bots in our classroom.  Slowly but surely the students are learning to love technology as much as I do.  They understand that Bee-Bots are a learning tool that make learning even more fun now.  They love to push the buttons and tell the Bee-Bot where to go.  We started with beginning sounds.

I made a mat using real pictures of animals.  (It will help us make real-world connections because we are going to the zoo as our field trip in the middle of November.)

These are the animals that are used in a phonics program that we started using this year.  Each one has a sign they do when they say the sound.  They have to pick a card, say the letter and sound, then code the Bee-Bot to the animals that start with that letter.

They are using their critical thinking skills as well as problem-solving skills to get the the correct animal.  They cheer for joy when the Bee-Bot does it correctly.  Sometimes we would forgot to press "clear" before coding to the next animal and they would need to put it back and do it again.

I look forward to making more mats to use in the future weeks.