It Looked Like...

This week kindergarten students listened to the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk. They then drew their own cloud shapes using the fill bucket and eraser in Kid Pix. When done, they told Miss Frank what it looked like and she used the text tool to write a sentence.

Computer Disaster

This week first grade students are listening and responding to the book Arthur's Computer Disaster by Marc Brown. In Microsoft Word they are writing about what they think Arthur should have done in the story. They get to change the size and font and add a clip art to the document before printing.

StoryMaker

This week second grade students are listening to the book Horton Hears a Who. Then they are using the Seussville Storymaker to create their own story. The web site has characters and backgrounds from the story that students can use. They choose music to go with each scene and write the words for the characters.

Goodnight First Grade

Students in first grade just listened to the story Goodnight Moon in computer class. They each created a PowerPoint slide saying goodnight to something in their room at home. The slides were then put together to make a complete presentation. Click here to see the shows.

Hats Off to the Months

This week first grade students reviewed the months of the year. We read the book 12 Hats for Lena and each student drew a hat based on their birthday month. Students decorated the hat using the fill bucket and the different groups of stamps.

Stamps

This week kindergarten students are trying out stamps in Kid Pix. After listening to the story There's an Alligator Under My Bed, students draw a bed and stamp three things under it. After printing, they get to try out more stamps or do some more drawing.

I Spy

Last week second grade students created I Spy pictures. Each child brought something to computer class for the picture and helped arrange the items. They wrote sentences to go with their picture. You can see their work by clicking here.

Vote For Us!

Last week Miss Frank read Vote For Duck to the second grade classes. Students made slide shows listing reasons people should vote for them (no mudslinging allowed)! This week they added clip art, used the spell checker (because no one will vote for someone with bad spelling), proofread it themselves (because we are smarter than computers), and shared the shows with the class.

C is for Camera, Computers, and Charlevoix!

This week in first grade computer classes I am reading the book Crictor by Tomi Ungerer. Students then work together to make different letters of the alphabet like the snake did in the book. I use a digital camera to take a picture of each letter, which later become the alphabet for my Word Wall. Years ago when I first started doing this lesson most of the students had never seen a digital camera. They were amazed that they could see the picture right away on the camera and computer, and even more in awe that they got to take a copy of it home that day. Now students are no longer surprised by digital cameras. I use the lesson to explain how far technology has come and that before digital cameras, you had to wait hours or even days to finally see your picture.