Using Boom Cards in Kindergarten Using Boom Cards in kindergarten classrooms is a powerful tool we can use to engage all students. Most kindergarten students have some experience with iPads and technology long before they arrive in our kindergarten. Many, if not all, have some type of iPad or tablet at home. But there is a huge difference between using a screen to watch a video on YouTube or playing an angry bird game, and actually using a Boom Card in a kindergarten classrooms as a tool for learning. You don’t need to be 1:1 to bring Boom cards into your classroom Many kindergarten classes are the “last stop” for Chromebooks and other technology. The shiny, newly purchased, devices end up going to the upper grades. As the 4th and 5th graders upgrade to new Chromebooks their older devices make their way down to kindergarten. If you are lucky, you might get a few iPads and Chromebooks. There aren’t too many kindergarten or first-grade classes that receive the shiny new Chromebook cart. Don’t worry you don’t need it. We have so much to learn and so much to manipulate in kindergarten and first grade that I’m totally fine having...