Showing posts with label Listening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Listening. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2011

Listening Linky-Loo

Brenda at Primary Inspired is hosting a Linky party about Listening Stations. I am really curious and excited to see how everyone else sets up their stations.
I'm not too thrilled about mine for two reasons:
1. Lack of furniture
2. Lack of space
However, there is a silver lining. This year, I have a class set of iPods. Now, they don't need a place to listen. They can go anywhere.

Ta-dah!
The side you can see is a CD player and on the other side is the old fashioned tape player. The CD's and tapes are located under the tape player. The story books are sorted and color coded in the 3 cubbies against the wall. Inside the green pouch is response sheets.
"LAME-O"


Now with the iPods:
The kids really like the StoryChimes app.
They have classic stories like The Three Little Pigs and Hansel and Gretel.
I have story telling apps loaded onto their iPods. A few of them are the Story Chimes app and the Learning A to Z app. 
These three are listening to the same story book using their iPods.
Also, they can choose to listen to a story from the Listening Station that I added onto the iTunes library of each iPod.


Another listening station is at the computer. Our school has a subscription to TumblebooksI LOVE Tumblebooks! If your school doesn't have a subscription, you need to beg for it!


Don't forget to link up with Brenda at Primary Inspired and add your own Listening Station!