Connect your computer to the SMART Board, then open the IXL.com website and have your students sit quietly on the floor. The IXL.com website offers math activities for preschoolers including shape recognition, counting to 20, comparing groups and classifying objects. Model the activity by going to the SMART Board and clicking on pre-k math shape counting using your interactive SMART Board pen or your hand. Count the shapes on the interactive screen, then write the correct number in the answer box using your pen. Invite your students to come up and try the shape-counting activity.
The Starfall.com website offers language arts activities such as letter-recognition for your preschool students. Model a Starfall activity with your students. Open Starfall.com on your computer then go to the interactive whiteboard and click on the "ABCs Let's Get Ready to Read" activity using the interactive SMART Board pen or your hand. It will open up to a colorful alphabet chart. Click on a letter of the alphabet on the chart and it will open up to a new page where the upper and lower case letter will appear. Your students will hear the sound of the letter and funny sound effects. Return to the alphabet chart and invite your students to come up and choose a letter of the alphabet on the SMART Board.
The IXL.com website has many math activities for kindergarten students. The website offers grade-level activities including patterns, addition, subtraction, geometry, measurement, money and time. To model an addition activity, go to the SMART Board and click on the "Addition with pictures - sums to 10" link with the interactive pen or your hand. Next, count the pictures to help solve the addition problem and write the sum in the answer box using your pen. Then invite your students to try the interactive SMART Board and solve the picture addition problems themselves.
The Starfall.com website offers your kindergarten students language arts activities for phonemic awareness that include stories that emphasize interacting with speech. Model a Starfall story with your students by opening the Starfall "Learn to Read" activity using the interactive SMART Board pen or your hand. It will open up to a list of books. Click on "Zac the Rat" and it will open up to the story. Your students will hear a song about the short a sound. When you click the letter "a," a voice will say the short a sound. As you click each word in the story, the voice will read the word by sounding out each letter. When "Zac the Rat" is finished, return to the book list and invite your students to come up and choose a story.