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Puppet Pals App.....

  I am not sure if you are familiar with an app called Puppet Pals Director's Pass, but it is an app that allows you to create a "puppet play" using animations, backdrops, and voice recordings.  This app is used in Kindergarten and 12th Grade - go figure, huh?:)  Mr. Krause, our social studies teacher, is the one that has asked for this one for his 12th graders.  The first assignment that they do is create a fable with it.   This one KILLED ME:)!!  I laughed SO SO hard - the voice of this kiddo is SO GREAT:)!!  Take a look:


   The best thing about this app is that it is SO SO open ended that you can do virtually ANYTHING with it.  Whether it be Kindergarten, where they make little plays with sight words, color words and numbers, to Seniors that use it for creating fables and World War II propaganda projects - really endless possibilities here;)!!  AND it's on the volume purchasing for education site, so it's $1.50 instead of $3.99.

Happy Tuesday,
Mrs. I:)

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