Hatch teachsmart learning system: Hatch Early Learning | Technology

Hatch Early Learning | Technology

Boards for Preschool

TeachSmart® helps teachers manage their busy classroom environment. With over 1,100 guided play activities, TeachSmart is perfect for circle time, small groups and one-on-one instruction.

Created to help teachers manage their busy classroom environment, TeachSmart’s preschool classroom management software has over 1,100 guided play activities that are perfect for circle time, small groups and one-on-one instruction.

Simple Classroom Management

This teaching tool has everything preschool teachers need to save hours of creating time. The work students design can be saved into their individual portfolios which are easy to reference throughout the year and share with parents. The scaffolded activities (a full year’s worth) are appropriate for all skill levels and will make lesson planning a breeze! Teachers can plan their lessons well in advance or launch their plan one day at a time. TeachSmart works for all preschool teachers and supports their individual instructing styles.

TeachSmart® is a technology solution that combines Hatch hardware with endless virtual tools (drawing tools, a media recorder, and many more!), as well as software loaded with hands-on, engaging, and developmentally appropriate content that enables teachers to foster truly collaborative learning experiences!

You Don’t Have to Reinvent the Wheel

TeachSmart comes with over 1,100 research-based, preschool activities in English and Spanish that build math, literacy, science and social studies skills. The software uses real photography, a licensed speech pathologist and scaffolding for every lesson. Activities can be modified to meet the special interests of the children in your classroom. Teachers that are feeling very creative can also create their own activities!

Capture Language & Writing Samples

Teachers have unique opportunities to capture storytelling recordings that monitor a child’s comprehension of both written and oral, literacy and math concepts. TeachSmart allows teachers to save real-time audio & video clips of their students’ work samples and document their progress over time. These digital portfolios help inform child assessment and parent-teacher conferences. Collecting language samples and the pre-recording feature can also help to preserve native languages

Add-ons for TeachSmart

Dual Language Support

Equip ELL teachers with 650+ Spanish early learning math and literacy activities, all correlated to NAEYC standards and the Head Start Framework. TeachSmart ELL Spanish is an add-on to the 1,100+ TeachSmart English activities that enable teachers to search and toggle between both languages to support specific curriculum requirements.

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Software

CoreFocus® is a software solution for interactive displays that provides a full year of activities and specifies each child’s optimal learning zone that is aligned to the Common Core. CoreFocus’ cross-curricular, adaptive learning program for kindergartners and first graders is recommended for Hatch technology but works with all interactive boards. This product is designed to meet the developmental needs of all students cognitive ages 4-8.

“Our students enjoy the vast digital experiences, and the has sparked more social interactions. Hatch products are used daily in my classroom.”

Latina Perez, Teacher

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The Hatch suite of early learning solutions complements and enhances your preschool & kindergarten classroom and supports early learners in reaching their next learning milestone! Hatch’s early learning solutions build foundational skills across the 7 domains of learning in an interactive and engaging environment designed to foster a love of learning in young children.

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Connected Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic required Hatch Early Learning to rethink how we support our customers. One way was through connected learning. Using Ignite by Hatch™ enabled children to play developmentally appropriate digital experiences both in the classroom and at home, automatically sending data to teachers, no matter where learning was happening.

Children are Resilient

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has never been more important than it is today. Pandemic-related disruptions in the school year have left an urgent need for tools that promote children’s social and emotional development. Learn more about how Hatch early learning solutions support SEL.

Digital Equity

The pandemic highlighted a challenge of digital equity for many early childhood programs across the country. Traditionally, early childhood programs do not provide devices for each child to support their learning. In the last school year, we have seen a decided shift in programs purchasing tablets and learning tools for all children in their classrooms. This allowed children to access high-quality learning content in the classroom and at home. Hatch has been providing child-safe tablets to early childhood programs across the country for many years. The Ignite™ by Hatch tablet solution has helped over 50,000 children in the last school year by providing them access to an award-winning, whole-child focused learning platform on a child-safe tablet that can travel with them from the classroom to home and back.

How Hatch Can Help

Ignite by Hatch was built to make teachers’ lives easier, providing children with a digital learning tool that focuses on whole-child development, provides teachers with objective data, and supports each child and their individual learning goals. Learn more on our Ignite by Hatch page.

For pre-K, there was always anecdotal data, but it was isolated, and it was limited to a classroom. Now, we have common data that we can have conversations about and really look at our school system as a whole. Hatch is really helping our kindergarten teachers focus on where a student ended pre-K last year, and where teachers need to pick up and work in small groups or individually with students to ensure they’re ready to learn.

Valarie Londrie, Executive Director for Academics, Los Fresnos CISD

Mark Hamill vs. Disney – Movies and series on DTF

The actor had many creative differences with the creators of the new trilogy, and he is not shy about talking about it.

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During the time that has passed since the release of the seventh episode, Mark Hamill managed to give many interviews. In general, he speaks of new films in a positive way, but sometimes criticism of some aspects of the new trilogies slips into his speech. We have collected the most unexpected quotes from which we can conclude that there may be serious creative differences between Disney and the actor.

I read the script for episode 8 and said to Ryan ( Johnson, director of The Last Jedi – DTF ), “I don’t agree with absolutely everything you’ve decided about my character.”

I told Ryan that the Jedi don’t give up! If Luke had any problems, he could lie low, for example, for a year to gather strength. But if he made a mistake, he would definitely try to correct it. We had very serious disagreements on this issue.

As an actor, it was important for me to understand: who is this guy ? How could the most optimistic and most inspiring character in the entire galaxy turn into a recluse who proclaims that “it’s time for the Jedi to end”? I read these lines and exclaimed: “What? Jedi don’t do that! The Jedi is an optimist, he has a strong will, he does not give up, he does not retire on the island.

I said, “It’s time for the Jedi to end” – it’s terrible, it’s shocking, I don’t want that ! I want to be as optimistic and hopeful as before! But the audience needs to be surprised, and this is becoming more and more difficult to do – they have seen a lot and expect a lot.

I’m talking about George Lucas’ Star Wars , which is a new generation of Star Wars. I almost felt like Luke was a different character. Could it be Jake Skywalker? This is not my Luke Skywalker.

I still haven’t fully accepted this movie – but on the other hand, it’s just a movie. I hope the audience will like it, I hope they won’t be disappointed. I came to the conclusion that Ryan was the perfect performer for the job.

When I read the script for the seventh episode, I said, “I like all the roles except mine” . And it was the same with the eighth. I said to Ryan: “I’m very surprised at how you see Luke!”

I was not offended when I found out what my role was in the seventh episode. But they could prepare me a little for this. I went to training, lost weight, and thought: “probably in the film I will have to do something hard, since they make me go to the gym twice a week and torture me.” They could have at least said, “By the way, about those workouts of yours. You just have to turn around and take off the hood.” I’d say, “Wow, I need to lie down for a minute.”

When I was reading the script for the seventh episode, I was sure that I would appear in the forest scene. When the lightsaber started to move and suddenly flew, I exclaimed: “Wow, what a spectacular appearance! .. Wait, what? Did Ray do it? She didn’t even study for a day! What the heck?!”. You can tell me: “Yes, you didn’t finish your studies either, so what can you say?”. That’s true, but I have an excuse: I should have gone back to my friends!

Some artists showed me concept art. Like the ones with Luke and… what’s the name of Daisy Ridley’s character? Ray? Yes, of course, Ray. Guys, it’s been too long since I’ve watched this movie.

For us actors, the backstory of is important. I wanted to know what Luke did and where he was before he ended up on this island. But then I realized that it doesn’t matter to the plot of The Force Awakens. I still came up with the backstory myself, showed it to J.J. Abrams, but he just patted me on the head and gave me candy, in the spirit of “can you finally go?” Please! Think of anything!

It’s too bad that Luke and Leia couldn’t fly to help Han Solo . Let it not be a “reunion”, even if we would still arrive too late to save him … But we have a lot to do with him, so when he was killed, it could be a tragic moment that would impose imprint on the next film. And who was there next to him in the film? Finn and Ray? How long did they know him? Twenty minutes? True, there was also Chewie, so this is not a completely substantiated claim.

As always, JJ was right and I was wrong. I was sure that the fans would start to resent that they did not see us ( Han, Luke and Leia – DTF) together, but they don’t seem to care.

Remember, kids : In Hollywood, no one cares what the quality of the film is. All that matters is whether he makes money. The Force Awakens made a lot of money, so it’s a good movie. This is not discussed.

If you think this movie will bring back your childhood – get ready to be disappointed.

If I divulged any information they would cut off my head and throw it right in my face.

I discussed the story with Colin Trevorrow (Trevorrow was originally supposed to direct the ninth episode of – DTF) and I was very happy that we think the same way about where the story should go and how it can be shown my character in a way that has never been seen before. But I don’t know if it led to anything – and I don’t want to know. Sometimes ignorance is a blessing. They don’t tell me anything.

The last quote would be a great confirmation of the theory that until The Last Jedi premiered, Mark Hamill didn’t know his character was going to die. She also has other confirmations: for example, the fact that in all interviews Mark very emotionally talks about the changed character of Luke, but does not even hint at his future fate.

The most convincing argument in favor of this version is the actor’s mood that has changed dramatically after watching it. If right before the premiere of the film, Hamill was joking, was moderately optimistic and advised everyone to watch the film, then immediately after it he threw looks at Rian Johnson full of indignation and seemed to be in a state of shock.

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How to teach your child to read: important rules and effective techniques

October 26

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Teaching a preschooler to read without losing interest in books is real. Lifehacker has selected the best ways for responsible parents.

How to understand that it is time to teach a child to read

There are several signs of psychological readiness.

1. The child speaks fluently in sentences and understands the meaning of what is said.
2. The child understands directions: left-right, up-down. For learning to read, it is important that the baby can follow the text from left to right and from top to bottom.
3. The child distinguishes sounds (what speech therapists call developed phonemic hearing). Simply put, the baby will easily understand by ear where the house and the bow are, and where the tom and the hatch are.
4. Your child pronounces all sounds and has no speech problems.

Natalya Zharikova

Speech therapist with 33 years of experience

A child with speech therapy problems does not hear and does not distinguish similar sounds. From here come errors with speech, and subsequently with reading, and even more often with writing. It is very difficult for a parent to identify violations on their own, so usually a teacher or a speech therapist can point this out to them.

How to teach your child to read

Be patient and follow these simple guidelines.

Set an example

In a family where there is a culture and tradition of reading, children themselves will reach for books. Read not because it is necessary and useful, but because it is a pleasure for you.

Read together and discuss

Read aloud to the child and then look at the pictures together, encouraging them to interact with the book: “Who is this? Can you show me the cat’s ears? And who is that standing next to her?” Older children can be asked more difficult questions: “Why did he do this? What do you think will happen next?”

Don’t learn the letters as they are called in the alphabet

Instead, help your child remember the sound the letter makes. For example, you show the letter “m” and say: “This is the letter m (not em )”. If a child remembers the alphabetic names of letters ( em , es, ef and so on), it will be quite difficult for him to learn to read. Then, when he sees the word ra-ma in the book, he will try to pronounce er-a-um-a .

Go from simple to complex

Once the child has memorized a few letters (from 2 to 5) and the sounds they represent, move on to syllables. Let the words consisting of repeated syllables be the first: mama, papa, uncle, nanny . In this case, it is not necessary to break the syllable into separate sounds. Do not say: “These are the letters m and a , and together they read ma “. Immediately learn that the syllable is pronounced like ma , otherwise the baby may start to read letter by letter. After mastering simple combinations, move on to more complex ones: cat, zhu-k, do-m .

Help to understand the meaning of what is read

Do this when the child begins to slowly but surely reproduce words and whole sentences in syllables. For example, the kid read: “Mom washed the frame.” Stop and ask: “What did you just read about?”. If he finds it difficult to answer, let him read the sentence again. And you ask more specific questions: “Who washed the frame? What did mom wash?

Show that letters are everywhere

Play a game. Let the child find the letters that surround him on the street and at home. These are the names of stores, and memos on information stands, and advertising on billboards, and even traffic light messages: it happens that the inscription “Go” lights up on green, and “Wait so many seconds” on red.

Play

And play again. Stack blocks with letters and syllables, make up words, ask your child to read you some kind of sign or inscription on the packaging in the store.

Natalia Zharikova

There are many exercises for memorizing letters. For example, circle the desired letter among a number of others, circle the correctly written among the incorrect ones, color or shade. You can also ask the child to tell what the letter looks like.

Use every opportunity to practice

Whether you are waiting in line at the clinic or driving somewhere, take out a picture book with short stories to accompany them and invite your child to read together.

Build on your success

Repeat familiar texts, look for familiar characters in new stories. Runaway Bunny is found both in “Teremka” and “Kolobok”.

Do not force

This is perhaps the most important thing. Don’t take away a child’s childhood. Learning should not go through violence and tears.

What techniques to use to teach your child to read

Here are six popular, affordable and effective techniques. Choose one or try several and settle on the one that interests the child the most.

1. ABCs and primers

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Traditional, but the longest way. The difference between these books is that the alphabet fixes each letter with a mnemonic picture: a drum will be drawn on the page with B , and a spinning wheel next to Yu . The alphabet helps to remember letters and often interesting rhymes, but will not teach you how to read.

The primer consistently teaches the child to combine sounds into syllables, and syllables into words. This process is not easy and requires perseverance.

There are quite a lot of author’s primers now. According to the books of Nadezhda Betenkova, Vseslav Goretsky, Dmitry Fonin, Natalya Pavlova, children can study both with their parents before school and in the first grade.

Parents agree that one of the most understandable methods for teaching preschoolers is Nadezhda Zhukova’s primer. The author simply explains the most difficult thing for a child: how to turn letters into syllables, how to read ma-ma , and not start naming individual letters me-a-me-a .

2. Zaitsev’s Cubes

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If a child consistently learns letters and syllables while learning from the primer, then in 52 Zaitsev’s Cubes he is given access to everything at once: a single letter or combinations of consonant and vowel, consonant and hard or soft sign.

The child effortlessly learns the differences between voiceless and voiced sounds, because the cubes with voiceless consonants are filled with wood, and the cubes with voiced consonants are filled with metal.

The cubes also differ in size. The large ones depict hard warehouses, the small ones – soft ones. The author of the technique explains this by the fact that when we pronounce to (hard warehouse), the mouth opens wide, or (soft warehouse) – lips in a half smile.

The set includes tables with warehouses that the parent sings (yes, he doesn’t speak, but sings).

The child quickly masters warehouse reading with the help of cubes. But there are also disadvantages: he may begin to swallow endings and face difficulties already at school when parsing a word by composition.

3. “Skladushki” and “Teremki” by Vyacheslav Voskobovich

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In “Skladushki” Vyacheslav Voskobovich reworked Zaitsev’s idea: 21 cards show all the warehouses of the Russian language with nice thematic pictures. Included is a CD with songs, the texts of which go under each picture.

Folders are great for kids who like looking at pictures. Each of them is an occasion to discuss with the child where the kitten is, what the puppy is doing, where the beetle flew.

It is possible to teach a child with these cards from the age of three. At the same time, it should be noted that the author of the methodology himself does not consider it necessary to force early development.

“Teremki” by Voskobovich consist of 12 wooden cubes with consonants and 12 cardboard cubes with vowels. First, the child gets acquainted with the alphabet and tries with the help of parents to come up with words that begin with each of the letters.

Then it’s time to study the syllables. In the tower with the letter M is inserted into A – and the first syllable is ma . From several towers you can lay out words. Learning is based on play. So, when replacing the vowel , the house will turn into smoke .

You can start playing tower blocks from the age of two. At the same time, parents will not be left alone with the cubes: the kit includes a manual with a detailed description of the methodology and game options.

4. Chaplygin’s dynamic cubes

Shot: Both a boy and a girl! Children’s channel – We are twins / YouTube

Evgeny Chaplygin’s manual includes 10 cubes and 10 movable blocks. Each dynamic block consists of a pair – a consonant and a vowel. The task of the child is to twist the cubes and find a pair.

At the initial stage, as with any other method of learning to read in warehouses, the child makes the simplest words from repeating syllables: ma-ma, pa-pa, ba-ba . The involved motor skills help to quickly remember the shape of the letters, and the search for already familiar syllables turns into an exciting game. The cubes are accompanied by a manual describing the methodology and words that can be composed.

The optimal age for classes is 4-5 years. You can start earlier, but only in the game format.

5. Doman’s cards

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American doctor Glenn Doman proposes to teach children not individual letters or even syllables, but whole words. Parents name and show the child the words on the cards for 1-2 seconds. In this case, the baby is not required to repeat what he heard.

Classes start with 15 cards with the simplest concepts like female and male . Gradually, the number of words increases, those already learned leave the set, and the child begins to study phrases: for example, color + object, size + object.

How can one understand that a child has understood and memorized the visual image of a word, if the author of the methodology recommends starting classes from birth? Glenn Doman in “The Harmonious Development of the Child” strongly emphasizes that it is not necessary to arrange tests and checks for the child: kids do not like this and lose interest in classes.

It’s better to remember 50 cards out of 100 than 10 out of 10.

Glenn Doman

But given that parents can’t help but check, he advises the child to play the game if they want and are ready. For example, you can put several cards and ask to bring one or point to it.

Today, psychologists, neurophysiologists and pediatricians agree that the Doman method is not aimed at teaching reading, but at mechanical memorization of visual images of words. The child turns out to be an object of learning and is almost deprived of the opportunity to learn something on his own.

It is also worth adding: in order to proceed to the stage of reading according to Doman, parents need to prepare cards with all (!) Words that are found in a particular book.

6. Montessori method

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Montessori reading comes from the opposite: first we write and only then we read. Letters are the same pictures, so you first need to learn how to draw them and only then engage in pronunciation and reading. Children begin by tracing and shading the letters, and through this, they memorize their outline. When several vowels and consonants have been studied, they move on to the first simple words.

Much attention is paid to the tactile component, so children can literally touch the alphabet, cut out of rough or velvety paper.

The value of the method lies in learning through play. So, you can put a rough letter and a plate of semolina in front of the child and offer to first circle the sign with your finger, and then repeat this on the semolina.

The challenge for parents is purchasing or stocking up a significant amount of handouts. But you can try to make cards with your own hands from cardboard and sandpaper.

What’s the result

On the Internet and on posters advertising “devils” you will be offered ultra-modern methods of teaching your child to read at three, two or even from birth.