Reading and Tech Buddies

We have reading buddies at our school, where an upper grade class reads for about half an hour a week with a lower grade class. Although my fourth graders have been paired up with a kindergarten class every year, this year as a combo 4-5 class, we are reading with a second grade class. 

What has changed is that this year all of my students have iPads (BYOD), so instead of bringing books  every Friday morning for Reading Buddies, we are bringing our iPads.

It's an awesome thing to see, when older students are teaching younger ones how to make Educreations videos for math word problems, creating stories together, and making QR codes for the links to those videos. Maybe we should call our weekly meetings "Tech Buddies" instead!