People in Minnesota are using the term “stupid cold” to describe the weather we will be experiencing over the next 2 days. Tomorrow’s forecast is a high of -18 degrees, low of -28 degrees, with wind chills of 50 below zero. Our state will experience over 60 hours of below zero temperatures. On Friday, the Governor closed schools statewide for Monday. It is cold. I thought it would be appropriate to put together a post about a mitten matching activity I created using Explain Everything. My previous post on using Explain Everything for story retelling gives more details about how to use the app.
When I had a classroom, I offered a mitten matching activity using a clothesline, clothespins and children’s mittens. It was great fine motor practice. I usually had some students who struggled with the fine motor aspect of using a clothespin, so I adapted the clothespins, had an alternative clothesline with velcro , and sometimes had the student match the mittens by pairing them on the table or floor rather than hang them. This iPad activity would be yet another alternative for accessing this type of activity. A fun variation of this activity would be to take pictures of your students' mittens and use those as the matching items.
This video was created using the app Explain Everything and gives a brief overview of how I created the activity.
I drew the clothesline using the writing tool. I found the images on Google and saved the images to my camera roll. I pulled the images into the slide and used the lasso cropping tool to crop the images out of the background. I locked the clothesline and the mittens hanging on the line. I locked the scale of the the mittens that will be manipulated by the students. The locking function is activated by tapping square with an i on the left hand side, then tapping the object. Everyone stay warm and stay safe.
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| Tapping the information icon brings up this menu which includes the lock function. |
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