This presentation provides an overview of iPad implementation in Kindergarten classes. In addition to basic functions, management tips and favorite apps are shared.

1. iPads in
Kindergarten
Summer 2015

2. Basics: Home Button

3. On/Off & Volume

4. Opening and Closing Apps
 Open an App: Touch it
 Close it: Press the Home Button

5. Organizing Apps
 Tap and hold on any app
 Move them when the wiggle
 Drag apps on top of each other to create folders
 Tap the home button when done

6. Docking an App
 Hold your finger on the app until it wiggles
 Drag the app to the very bottom
 Tap the home button

7. Switching between
Apps/Closing Apps
Switching between Apps
 Double tap the home button
 Click on the other app
 Press the home button
Closing an App Completely
 Double tap the home button
 Slide your finger upward on the app
you want to close
 Press the home button

8. Keyboards
Switch
to #’s
Hide
keyboard

9. Copy & Paste

10. Basics: Wifi Settings
 Look for account information on our district shared drive,
GT Common

11. Zoom
Open Safari
Go to a web site
Put two fingers on the screen;
drag them apart and pinch them
together to zoom in; spread them
apart to zoom out

12. Search
 Swipe down from any page
 The search “spotlight” bar appears
 Type the name of the app

13. Screen Shot

14. Management
 iPad Rules
 Labeling iPads
 App Layout

15. Reading Apps
 Letter School
 Endless Alphabet
 Elmo Loves ABCs
 Starfall All About Me
 Starfall Learn to Read
 Bob Books
 Word Wagon
 Lexia
 Raz Kids
 ABC Mouse A-Z
music videos
 ABC Mouse Stories
 Goosed Up
 I Like Books

16. Math Apps
 Touch Math
 Park Math
 10 Frame Fill
 Subitizing Flash Cards
 Hungry Guppy
 Math Word Problems
 Brainingcamp Manipulatives

17. Miscellaneous Apps
 Brainpop Jr
 Doodle Buddy
 Tux Paint
 Teach Me Kindergarten
 Drop Box

18. Creation/Writing Apps
 Write About This
 Draw and Tell
 Puppet Pals
 Shadow Puppet
 See Saw

19. QR Codes
 Access web sites
 Listening Centers
 QR Scanner

20. Kindergarten iPad Resources
 iPad Basics
 K Teaching with iPads
 iTunes U
 Mrs. Davidson’s Blog
 Connected Kinders
 Read Aloud Picture Books
 iPad Center Ideas