Task Cards

The technologist at our school has made task cards for students. This is extremely helpful in my kindergarten class. It is a printout of step by step instructions of how to get to a site that is advantageous to our curriculum or objectives for the six weeks. Presently, my class is using the three computers that we have in our classroom every day during center time. I am assisting them with the task cards. Some students are nearly independent. They are working on a special kidspiration screen. The technologist has placed many letters in the options. We have the student click on whatever letter we are focusing on for that week. The kidspiration template has the letter at the top of the screen and three brief videos featuring some aspect of that letter. This week the video featured Wanda the Walrus with her gorgeous whiskers (bet you can guess the letter)! Another video showed how the W and w is written. It gave verbal directions as the letter was written on the screen. After the students watch the videos they scroll through the pictures in kidspiration and pick 5 or so items that start with a w. Funny thing happened on Friday, while following the task card getting to the right spot the language arts file for kindergarten disappeared. I hope it wasn't something I did. I left a message with the technologist today.