SMART Board Notebook Pages:

Belief Statement: I believe that children learn through social constructivism and so when I prepare SMART Board activities for my classroom, I look for ways to have children engage with print and concepts in meaningful ways. I believe that the highest level of motivation comes from creating content related to their interests and linked to emergent projects. Because each choice or response must be negotiated and tested, it has a different level of thinking and engagement - that is, there is a right answer - but there must be negotiation and thinking to find it. This is so different from the traditional work sheet. These pages are like creating hands-on activities or games for children through an emergent technology.

Types of Notebook Pages: The type of center I create is dependent on the skills of the children. Most of the items in Lesson Activity Toolkit are user friendly for young children and they quickly explore and engage by trial and error or with minimal teacher scaffolding. Some of my favorite ones are Pairs, the word guesses, vortex sorts, and image matches. These give children a chance to extend their learning.

Sample Notebook Page:
This is one Pairs activity that I developed for a study of Africa - for use in a Gr. 1 class in November. It is a word - picture match game, played like Memory. The task is to match the word card with an image that matches it. The skills needed are categorization, initial sounds, background vocabulary, visual literacy and beginning decoding skills. You will need Notebook software to view it.

Africa - Animal Word Pair Game

Custom Orders:

To contact me to create specific topic and grade level (PreK - Gr. 1) literacy centers, please email me carolvaage@shaw.ca
Negotiated pricing will vary according to parameters of requests. The African Word Pair Game above would be $10 Canadian.