Ipads in the Preschool Classroom

I am very fortunate to be teaching in a very iPad friendly school. I am lucky enough to have two iPads for my students to be able to use. When the students arrive at school, the first thing we do is have center time. This is free choice time for the students, and one of their choices is to use the iPad. This is a very popular center for my students. When they see one student using it, they flock to that student, and everybody wants a chance to use the iPad. Until today, I had one iPad, but I was lucky enough to get a second one for student use! This will help ensure that every child who wishes to use the iPad will have a chance. I have primarily been using the IPad during center time, but I am beginning to implement parts of the Daily 5 into our schedule with my four year olds. I plan on utilizing the iPads during daily five time as well. I will be posting more about our journey into the Daily 5 as well as what were doing with the iPads in the coming weeks. iPad time has been very heavily supervised up to this point in our school year. I have been reviewing the iPad rules daily with each child who has used it. I've also been right next to them ensuring proper iPad use. As we start our Daily 5 journey, I am going to start letting the kids have more autonomy in using them while checking on them frequently and reviewing iPad rules daily. Stay tuned for updates on how we use iPads in a preschool classroom, and coming soon is a list of our tops apps that we use!