Week 1
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL
MD / Use Smart notebook for adding a story for children to play through and retell
Continue to use the Interactive Whiteboard with the experiences introduced in Sheet 1 / Learning intentions:
To be able to recall experiences
To be able to use the Interactive Whiteboard for purposeful play
To be able to share and take turns using the board
To be able to touch each page in turn in Smart notebook to retell a familiar story
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Adult Role:
Remind children of experiences of the IWB from last term
Support children’s spontaneous use of the board
Build on what they know and can do
To put a familiar story into the notebook using the scanner
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Adult skills needed:
Check through last terms skills
Become familiar with Smart Help
Use a scanner to insert pictures from a book
Week 2
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL
MD / Use Smart recorder to record and revisit experiences
Encourage children’s independence in choosing what to use the board for by continuing to help them select from shortcuts from the desktop / Learning intentions:
To be able to recall and retell experiences
To be able to put photographs in a sequential order
To be able to use language to organise, sequence and describe events, feelings and experiences
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Adult Role:
To support children in manipulating pictures
To scaffold children’s use of language to organise, sequence and describe their feelings and experiences
To involve children in recording and playing back their experiences or an event
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to use the Smart recorder to record children retelling an event such as an outing, cooking, role play or planting
To be able to retrieve the file and play through Smart notebook
Week 3
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL / Using the digital movie maker with the Smart Board-exploring the camera / Learning intentions:
To be able to confidently explore the digital camera when it is attached to the computer
To be able to confidently explore moving the camera, identifying people or events and displaying through the Board
To be able to use language to interact with others, negotiate plans and take turns
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Adult Role:
To support children using the digital movie maker
To give instruction on the tools of the camera on a need to know basis
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to attach the digital movie maker and load software
To know the buttons on the movie maker
To know how to use the first screen of the software, how to download files and transfer them to the permanent collection
To be able to delete files in the movie maker software
Week 4
K&U
CCL
MD / Using the digital movie maker with the Smart Board-exploring the buttons on the camera and becoming familiar with taking short clips and seeing them played back / Learning intentions:
To be able to explore the use of the camera away from its base
To be able to use the video record or self timer understanding ‘first’, ‘next’
To be able to put the camera back in its base and to click the tick to download the video or stills
To be able to play/see the stills or video with adult support
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Adult Role:
To encourage children’s confident handling of the video recorder
To instruct children on the use of the buttons on the camera on a need to know basis
When children can’t hold down the video record button and are attempting to use the camera for a purpose, teach them how to use the self timer to record freely
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Further adult skills needed:
To become familiar with the digital moviemaker software.
Use the editing screen of the software; be able to add a collection of video clips, to add transitions and save.
Week 5
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL
Creative / Using the digital movie maker with the Smart Board-to be more familiar with taking clips for a purpose and being aware of what will be played back / Learning intentions:
To be able to take movies with a purpose
To be able to look and listen to movies taken by themselves and by others
To be able to use language to recreate roles and experiences
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Adult Role:
To provide a context for taking short movies: planting bulbs, cooking, an outing, a visitor, role play, a puppet show, making music
To make a combined movie that reflects children’s different viewpoints of an event
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to edit the children’s movies so they can be joined into one movie about an event
Week 6
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL
Creative / Using the digital movie maker with the Smart Board-to be able to stop the play back at intervals and describe events / Learning intentions:
To be able to take movies with a purpose
To be able to look and listen to movies taken by themselves and by others
To be able to use language to recreate roles and experiences
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Adult Role:
To play the movie through Smart Video Player
To stop frames of the movie and use to prompt discussion, can be drawn on if appropriate
Continue with experiences from Term1 / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to use Smart Video Player and know how to stop frames and annotate
Week 7
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL
MD / Using interactive websites with the Smart Board / Learning intentions:
To be able to Click on a hyperlink to a web site
To be able to explore the maths games and use for sorting, matching and ordering
To be able to interact with a big book on screen within a group
To take pleasure in stories / Adult Role:
To support children in exploring what happens when they click on a hyperlink. Encourage them to revisit the site through the hyperlink so that they become familiar with this as a program they can choose independently
To support children’s MD and CLL
To introduce the big book in a group and to support the interactions / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to set up hyperlinks to appropriate web sites for children with Icons that represent the sites
To be able to explore the site and evaluate for appropriate use
Week 8
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL
Creative / To develop children’s use of web sites and e-communications
/ Learning intentions:
To be able to create an invitation to a birthday party within a group
To be able to send an e-birthday card to a friend
Involve parents in children’s appropriate use of the internet
Use the digital camera to record and play back the event / Adult Role:
To link the invitation to a celebration of a birthday
To support children in sending and opening e-learning cards
To have relevant information to share with parents on children’s use of the internet e.g. safe use, appropriate sites
Involve parents in children’s appropriate use of the internet
Use the digital camera to record and play back the event / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to navigate to children’s emails
Week 9
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL / To develop children’s use of web sites using the screen capture to retell a story
/ Learning intentions:
To be able to enjoy listening to a story
To be able to pick out the main events of a story
To be able to retell a story using their own language and beginning to use the language patterns of the story / Adult Role:
To share a familiar story with children, revisiting the story and supporting the children in recalling the main events
To take screen grabs of the main pages of the story, those that depict the main events and to put them at the bottom of one page in Smart notebook
To support the children ordering the pages with their own retelling and play with the story / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to use the screen capture (introduced in Term 1) to take pictures from a web site and use them in Smart notebook
Week 10
Area of learning:
K&U
CLL
Creative / To develop children’s use of web sites using the screen capture to draw themselves and objects into stories
/ Learning intentions:
To be able to enjoy listening to a story and respond with relevant actions
To be able to draw themselves or others into stories and to add objects through clip art and drawing / Adult Role:
To use the screen capture tool to import a key picture from the story into Smart notebook
To demonstrate to children how they can put themselves and objects onto the story through drawing and clip art / Further adult skills needed:
To be able to support children’s use of Smart Board pens and tools to draw onto a page using past skills e.g. lock to page, adding clip art, changing pen colours and line widths etc.
Harriet Price Homerton Children’s Centre