Primary Literature Based Smartboard Lessons

Here are just a few of the many wonderful Smartboard lessons out there that provide great extension activities for particular children's books. Click on the book titles and it will take you to the preview of the program on Smart Exchange.

This program based on, If you Give a Pig a Party, has very basic activities. It would be great for introducing students to the Smartboard.



This program is entitled "Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett," and it includes a great sequencing activity plus selections from the text.



There are a few programs that extend from The Very Hungry Caterpillar.



This great program over The Foot Book includes sorting exercises, an opposite search, and much more. Very cute.



The Legend of the Bluebonnet is one of my favorite stories to use in the classroom! More on this book in a few weeks..



Another Eric Carle Classic...A House for Hermit Crab

Daily 5 + Smartboard = Love

I have already posted about some of my favorite Smartboard programs, but for this post I wanted to focus on Smartboard programs for students to do independently during the Daily 5. Typically I partnered students up so that each pair had 2 Daily 5 Rotations per week to use programs. Sometimes I created my own programs, but often I found that what I needed was already out there in the Smart Exchange.

**At first I was worried about the other students being distracted by students on the board, but after a week or so, it was not a problem!

I have put the exact names and pictures of the program. You can look them all up on The Smart Exchange. Here are my favs:


For Primary Grades:

Homophones:


Long O Word Sort:


(There are many more programs in this format with all the vowels.)


Plural Nouns:


Rhyming Activities:


Vowel Sort:


For Intermediate Grades:

Grade 3 Main Idea: (Really makes the practice more engaging :))


Guide Words: (could be for primary grades, too)


Incredible Inferences:


Parts of Speech Sort:


Prefixes:



All of these could be used for various grades depending on the skill-level of the students you are working with! I love how Daily 5 allows for differentiating like this. Have you found any great programs to use during Daily 5?

Favorite Smartboard Programs

I love using the Smartexchange to find new Smartboard programs to use in different subjects, so I thought I would share a view of my favorites. Thoughts of a Third Grade Teacher is having a linky party for favorite smartboard programs. Here are mine:

I love the "Daily Calendar Math" program. While I rarely used the calendar, I LOVED having all the different math review activities in one spot such as the money, place value and the interactive hundred chart.



Here is a super simple program entitled "graphs." This was actually one of the very first programs I used to get my second graders used to dragging objects on the Smartboard. It is also a great way to introduce graphing to young students. At the summer program I worked at, I even used it with Kindergarten students.



This program is one of my very favorites! It teaches about stars and constellations, and then student's can build their own constellations! Kids love it!



These next two are examples of the many pre-made programs from Smartboard that you can find on the Smartexchange. They are super well-done and have fantastic visuals and sorting activities.





I love using my Smartboard as a word work choice for Daily 5. Usually I pair up my students and let them take turns on the board, so that each student can use it at least once or twice a week. There are so many wonderful wordwork/word sort type programs on the Smartexchange. This is just one example:



Last but not least, Smartexchange offers some wonderful templates for games so that you can add in your own information.