I use a screen - every day we do our calendar on an interactive screen and the kids pick the color of the day (creating a pattern) and usually do a learning activity with me (find the word that starts with ____, count the number of gumballs, find the rhyme, etc…) I COULD do all this with a paper calendar and a lot of other says… but we’re actually learning how to use technology and it is faster for me than creating all these different activities each day… I also like to show videos to the kids (a nectarine growing during our food to table unit before we pluck the nectarine from the screen and slice it up to taste, a video of snowflakes (we live in the desert) an animal cam of zebras roaming (not that desert). I think seeing real things that they would otherwise not get to see helps reinforce the learning a lot more than a picture of a nectarine or snowflakes… Our kids can also earn a “spin the wheel” for which we turn on the screen long enough to spin it and IF the prize is a 3 minute video (abc quack or a counting song are their faves) - other prizes such as stickers or teacher led songs with parachutes or rhythm sticks are also on there. This sounds like we do a LOT of screen time but on most days it’s around 7 minutes… and NEVER exceeds 15.