So pick up a few tennis balls and introduce them as magic wands. They fit perfectly in their hands and slid over the smartboard beautifully. It also keeps those sticky fingers off your board:)
They will pick up the "magic touch" quickly but my kiddos still love to use the tennis balls. I often will toss the ball out to a student when I am calling on friends to come up and answer questions on the smartboard.
A Koosh ball is a another fun way to have students answer questions. They can toss the ball at the smartboard to answer the question.
I use tennis balls with my SmartBoard too. Actually, I use balls smaller than tennis balls. They are these little gray tennis-like balls that go on the bottoms of our chair legs to not scratch the floor. When I first heard about the tennis balls being used on SmartBoard I was skeptical but it really does work like magic!!
ReplyDeleteMrs. Magee...any ideas to cute them up a bit? I like a little bling with things and I have been trying to come up with a way to make them a bit more exciting;)
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OMG, great idea! thanks! I hate the sound of the squeaky fingers on the smart board. It's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard!
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