Clicking Away in Kindergarten

I've been using clickers in half-day kindergarten for all kinds of things. They've been integrated into our day as another school tool, albeit a SUPER COOL school tool! The children get their clicker from the front of my desk when they unpack each day, and then use them periodically throughout our lessons.

I started slow, by showing the children the basic controls, and they grasped it very quickly.  In the picture below, you see the demonstration lesson, followed by a child using her clicker during our Social Studies lesson on Dr. Martin Luther King.  The Scholastic news magazine had "yes" and "no" questions, and we used clickers for those...the kids really loved it!

The following picture shows my favorite lesson to date.  A teammate used a worksheet she found online as an image, and imported it into an ActivInspire chart.  We put the magnetic letters at the bottom, and the kids used their clickers to name the initial consonant for each word.  After checking our class results, we moved the magnetic letter up into the blank.

We've been clicking away...the children have been tremendously excited to use their clickers.  So far, we've explored text, numeric, yes/no, and pre-programmed question formats.  All have been successful for the most part!