A NEW Way To Share Our Digital BreakoutEDU Games Each Month....You Can Use This Template For Your April Digital Breakouts Too!

                

Our kids love doing digital BreakoutEDU games!  They enjoy all of the different subject focused, seasonal and fun games that get them thinking, collaborating and engaging with classmates in their classrooms and with those at home learning virtually. 

While talking with one of our teachers last year, we thought it would be fun to put a few of the digital BreakoutEDU games together each month that our students could play anytime, at school or at home.  

I instantly thought to myself, This would be a great use of a choice board! 

I just create a template each month that would hold 9 of the digital BreakoutEDU games. I make sure to include all of the different grade levels. 

I take a screen shot of the digital Breakout game, add it to the template and add the grade level in a box over the top. 

To share the choice board, I clicked on Publish to the web under Share.  That created a link that I shared with our teachers to add to their Google Classrooms or Seesaw and I add it to each grade level Symbaloo.

I also downloaded each game key and sent those to the teachers with that email so they will have easy access to be able to help the students with each months BreakoutEDU games in the choice board. 

You will find the April Digital BreakoutEDU to make a copy and add your own links here.

I can't wait to see what the kids think of our new Monthly BreakoutEDU Choice Board. I know they will be excited to see the NEW ones each month too!

Check Out All Of Our Readers' Favorite Capstone Characters Here & Download This Special Poster Of Them Too!

 

Our readers' LOVE all of the amazing Capstone characters!  They are included in picture books, graphic novels, nonfiction books, early readers chapter books and more.  All of our kids connect to the characters making reading and learning so much more meaningful and fun.  

As shared from Capstone, 

Looking for popular book characters that kids will love? You’ve come to the right place! 

From beloved characters like Katie Woo and Yasmin, to new characters sure to become readers' next favorite, Capstone has engaging book series for kids. Reading a book series is fun and also helps develop a child’s reading skills. Book series provide consistency in vocabulary which supports fluency development and comprehension. With each new book, readers can rely on their background knowledge of a character to help make predictions to the story’s plot. Readers get to know more about a favorite character with each new story they read which contributes to their overall understanding and enjoyment of the story, and encourages more reading! 

Get your students hooked on reading with some of our most popular book characters!

You can check out the Readers' Favorite Characters page here which is filled with the different Capstone characters.  

You can even download the amazing Learning is for Everyone poster featuring all of our favorite Capstone characters too. 

Turn The April 2024 PebbleGo & PebbleGo Next Monthly Holiday Calendar Into An Interactive Research Choice Board For Your Students & Teachers!

 

Our friends at Capstone create these special PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Holiday Calendars each month. 

In this post, I share more about the PebbleGo Monthly Calendars. 

I love making paper copies of these to share with our teachers and kids. 

They hang them up in their classrooms and hang them in our library too. I also share them online through social media and as an image in Google Classroom or Seesaw. 

The teachers even use the PebbleGo Calendars for mini research opportunities throughout each week. The students use PebbleGo Create to share what they learn throughout the month with the calendars. 

Here is the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next April 2024 Holidays Calendar. 

Last year, when I was sharing the calendars with teachers and students, I thought....Hey, this would be really fun in a choice board! 

So, I opened up a Google Slide, uploaded the PebbleGo April 2024 Holidays Calendar, and added a little chalk board with text over the top.  

Then I went through the calendar and found every special day in PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next.  

For example, National School Librarian Day is April 4. 

I went to PebbleGo and found the article about Librarians. I grabbed the link, as shown in the image above. 

I took that link and added a linked text box around each special date. 

Now, when the kids click on a holiday, it will take them directly to that PebbleGo article.  

If you want to use the template to create your own, you will find the Google Slide here to make a copy and add links to the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next articles. 

And to make it a choice board, just Publish to the web, as shown in this image above. 

You will share that Published Link with your students.  

I love sharing these interactive PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Holiday Calendars with our students and teachers. They love learning all about these special days that are highlighted each month too.

I am excited to have the April 2024 PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next ready to go for the month.I hope you will find ways to use it with your students and teachers this month too.