Bring Creative Technology to Preschool Classrooms!
Preschool students can be creators too! With Wixie they can write, paint pictures and tell stories to build literacy, number sense, and more.
Use these examples of projects created by students to inspire technology integration in your preschool classroom.
Learning Letters and Letter Sounds
A page from a pre-school ABC book. Wixie gives students a voice to demonstrate early literacy skills that is engaging and meaningful.
Lesson Plan
Oral Retelling
Pre-K students can record their voices to share what they've learned, promoting language development and building confidence. Working with talkies can also help make communication practice fun.
Adapt a Pattern Story
Make it easy for young students to be authors by asking them to recreate a pattern story, such as this one from Merle Peek's Mary Wore Her Red Dress.
Send Digital Greetings
Connect your PreK students to family, friends, and gratitude with digital greetings. Draw a picture, capture a photo and have students record. Perfect for holidays, Valentine's, Mother's Day, and Father's Day too!.
Preschool Curriculum Guide
Wixie's tools are perfect for project work and the library of activities makes it easy to find assignments that match preschool learning goals.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Retell Stories
Our PreK students used images in Wixie @Tech4Learning to retell the story of the 3 Little Pigs @SaratogaESFCPS @FCPSPreKEHS pic.twitter.com/OsVgKgGLkL
— Debbie Tannenbaum #author (@TannenbaumTech) November 29, 2022 -
Work with Shapes
Wixie Experts! Mrs. Ramirez's PreK class is creating a sand castle in Wixie by dragging, rotating and resizing shapes. They then recorded a story about how they designed their sand castle. @HumbleISD pic.twitter.com/hTOTdbSFsy
— Stefanie Mulvaney (@MrsMulvaney_JFE) May 14, 2024 -
Thanksgiving Counting
PreK students in Wicomico County used Wixie to create a turkey with feathers. Then they counted how many feathers they used. #wixie @tech4learning pic.twitter.com/4U7OVDLwh4
— mrscushman (@mrscushman) November 19, 2021 -
Living Things
Mrs Murphy's Pre-K friends are sorting living and non-living things using Wixie pic.twitter.com/OLkkMXPE3a
— FerndaleEarlyEdCtr (@FerndaleEarlyEd) March 11, 2022 -
Gumball Math
PK students use #Wixie to represent numbers as gumballs ???? @Tech4Learning @BaileysES_FCPS pic.twitter.com/1stTuoewZl
— Sara Quesenbery (@SaraQuesenbery) April 14, 2022 -
Building Names
PreK Loves Wixie! Mrs Dupuis' PreK class is building their names in Wixie. @HumbleISD pic.twitter.com/Lp7o2kHvON
— Stefanie Mulvaney (@MrsMulvaney_JFE) August 28, 2024 -
Counting
PreK Ss making a “Count to 10 book” using Wixie. @Tech4Learning #ForestHills101 #WSD101 pic.twitter.com/B9TkV3QXEI
— Beth Tortorello (@FHTechTeacher) November 1, 2018
Shapes
Mrs. Venere's PreK students made gingerbread men and women in Wixie. They moved shapes onto the body and counted the buttons. #wixie @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/t8JycS7cOB
— mrscushman (@mrscushman) December 9, 2019
Individual Math Practice
Created my first Wixie activity with #magicstickers for my PK. It was so easy, each student had their own personal math practice. Love this new tool! Thanks @Tech4Learning
— Dave Floyd (@dav_floyd) May 4, 2022
