APPy Hour in Kindergarten

When you walk into a kindergarten classroom at the Bon Air Technology Academy you will be surrounded by squeals of joy and laughter as students are actively engaged while working on their own KUNO Android Tablet.  The room is filled with excitement as the students use their tablets to practice math and reading skills. As they work at their own pace and get correct answers, students receive positive reinforcement, which motivates them to continue to work hard. One student said, “I love playing on my KUNO with numbers and reading.  The games are awesome!”

The purchase of these apps was made possible thanks to the Kokomo Public Schools Education Foundation mini-grant program. In the spring of last year, the kindergarten teachers at Bon Air were awarded a $500 mini grant to purchase apps for their students’ devices. They purchased the apps Monkey Math World Adventure and Monkey Word School Adventure for all of their students. These apps use interactive games to help students learn the skills needed to be successful in the Kindergarten classroom. The paid version of the app tracks their progress so that each child is working at his or her own pace. This allows the teacher to differentiate the learning in the classroom so that all students are working at their appropriate level. These apps are invaluable tools in any classroom because they give the teacher the ability to differentiate instruction based on the learners’ needs. Previously, the teachers were using free versions of the app which did not allow access to the tracking features nor the full scope of the skills included in the program.  Students are even using their indoor recess time to utilize these apps and learn more! Darcie York, kindergarten teacher said, “The Kuno is a great resource for the students to be engaged in their learning as well as working at their own pace.  My students love their "Kuno time!”

Check out our Kindergarteners in action below!!
http://youtu.be/wTcnBncBUsI

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Class Websites

Did you know that every classroom at Bon Air, including art, music, gym, library, and speech, ALL have classroom webpages? Mrs. Concus even has a page too! There is also a page for parents to use for support with technology. All of these things are available to you with a click of a button.

To access your child's page, please go to the Kokomo Center homepage (www.kokomoschools.com). We recently launched a new homepage so things might look a bit different. To get to Bon Air, simple click Bon Air Academy from the drop down list in the top left corner.

You will then see some of our amazing children's pictures scrolling across the top! From here click on Classes/Teachers. You will see a list of all the websites available to you. Click on the site you want to visit. You will immediately see a guest version of that teacher's website. If you login (upper right corner) you will get full access to the site. This login step is very important, or you will not be able to see very much. This is for confidentially and the protection of the students that are enrolled in that class.

You can visit these sites, to look for announcements from the teacher, daily schedules, find educational websites, and much, much more!

Please contact me, Mrs. Hollingsworth, if you need help accessing your child's site. My email is jhollingsworth@kokomoschools.com . Enjoy!!

Reunited and It Feels So Good!

Hello Bon Air families! I apologize for the delay in posts this semester. My apologies there have not been as many posts, but boy do I have some things to catch you up on! Let's start from the beginning and hopefully I can get everyone up to date easily.

We started the year with a successful device deployment. We welcomed nearly 300 middle school students back to the building so there were many extra computers to assign and distribute. Check out some photos below of our students picking up their computers at the beginning of the year. All students in grades K-2 were issued a KUNO 3 tablet, students in 3-5 have an HP 3115m
Laptop, and students in 6-8 have a Lenovo x131e Thinkpad.

Students came to the library to pick up their devices. Many entered with big smiles on their faces and immediately spotted their computer from the year before neatly organized on the tables. Devices were given hugs and kisses as students were reunited with their machines. One student even said, "Oh! I have missed you so much!"