Today you will use KidPix to create a simple drawing of one of the characters in the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio. After you save your picture as a jpg., upload it to Tagxedo and create the word cloud with the character traits that your chosen character possesses.
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Books Are For Reading
States of Matter
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in three states of matter.
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A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
The Circulatory System
Wonder Character Traits
Today you will use KidPix to create a simple drawing of one of the characters in the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio. After you save your picture as a jpg., upload it to Tagxedo and create the word cloud with the character traits that your chosen character possesses.
My Plate
Map Skills
Retell an Ezra Jack Keats Story
The Water Cycle
Today you will use KidPix to create a scientific drawing of the water cycle. Visit these websites at home to learn more about the water cycle.
Drippy the Raindrop: The Land of Ice and Snow
Polygon Creatures
Rhyming Families
Constellations
Favorite Weather
Self Portrait
Fall Number Boxes
Rhyming Families
Fall
Apples, Halloween, colored leaves in piles, and pumpkins. It must be Fall! Today you will be introduced to the tools in Kidpix to draw a picture of Fall.
If you are done early, Carve a Pumpkin!
Massachusetts Map
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Leaves for Our Class Tree
Login Card
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Life Cycle of a Frog
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Tree Observation Slideshow
We will use Kidpix to illustrate and annotate your continuing tree observations through the seasons. After the four drawings and observations are completes, we will gather them into a slideshow.
Volcanoes!
To complement your Rocks and Minerals unit, we will explore how the inside of a volcano looks. Draw a cross section of a volcano in Kid Pix, then color and label each important feature.
Learn more about volcanoes by visiting the following website.
Tall Tales
Today will type in your Tall Tale project. We will learn how to make columns so that you can create a long tall tale! We will also illustrate your tall tale by creating a picture in Kid Pix.
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
My Dream For The World
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Mealworm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Massachusetts Map
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Self Portraits
Life Cycle of a Frog
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Me On The Map
Create a slideshow that shows where you are in your neighborhood, town, state, country, continent, and planet. Each week you’ll work on one or more pages in Kid Pix. When finished, put the pages together to make a slideshow. Click the picture below for a sample of what a finished project will look like.
Earth Day Puzzle
Tall Tales
Today will type in your Tall Tale project. We will learn how to make columns so that you can create a long tall tale! We will also illustrate your tall tale by creating a picture in Kid Pix.
Massachusetts Map
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Phases of the Moon
Create a slideshow in KidPix that illustrates the first five phases of the moon from new to full. We’ll start by reviewing the phases of the moon by going to an interactive website. Then, open each of the seven slides in the Phases of the Moon folder and follow the directions given. Once finished, create a slideshow in Kid Pix. Click here for a sample.
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
Solving Word Problems with Diagrams
Today you will use Kidpix to create a visual solution to your chosen word problem. After creating the drawings, you will record your thinking on the picture. When all your pictures are complete move to the slide show section of Kid Pix and create a slide show of the solution. Export in iPod format and place in your file locker in Edline to bring home.
Vacation Voicethread
Today you will use Kidpix to illustrate your story about your vacation week. We will record the stories in a Voicethread and publish them on the Internet.
Town Crier Voicethread
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
Login Card
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Self Portrait
International Dot Day
Today is International Dot Day! We will listen to author and illustrator Peter Reynold’s read his book, The Dot, and then we will head to our computers to “Make Our Mark” with Kidpix.
Introduction to the Computer Lab
Introduction to the Computer Lab
Butterfly Life Cycle
Your caterpillars have arrived! To enhance your study of the life cycle of the painted lady butterfly, we will use Kid Pix to draw the four stages of the butterfly’s life cycle.
Learn more about butterflies by visiting the websites below.
Life Cycle of A Frog
You have been watching your frogs in the classroom grow and change. Today we will use KidPix to draw the life cycle of a frog.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs.
Life Cycle of a Frog Slide Show
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Drawing States of Matter
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in three states of matter.
Try these websites at home:
Water Conservation Tips Book
A Complete Circuit
Today you will use Kidpix to demonstrate how you would get a light bulb to light if you were given a copper wire, a light bulb, and a battery. Label the parts of the bulb and the critical contact points. We will import your drawing into Animation-ish to create an animated drawing demonstrating the how electrons travel to light a bulb.
Massachusetts Map
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Voicethread with Our Friends In Dallastown
Today we will create an self-portrait, in Kidpix, to represent you on our collaborative voicethread project with our Skype friends in Dallastown, Pennsylvania. Once they have posted their Voicethread of their 100th day of school activities, we will comment on it. The final product will appear on our page on the Collaborations wikispace.
Story Podcasts
Drawing States of Matter
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in the three states of matter.
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Parts Of A Flower
Today we will gather around the whiteboard to quickly review the Life Cycle of A Plant. We will then use Kid Pix to draw a cross-section of a flower, labeling all the major parts.
If you are done early, then visit the website below.
Life Cycle of a Meal Worm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Self-Portraits
Life Cycle of a Frog Slide Show
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
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Crickets!
Self-Portraits
Winter Wonderland
As participants of the Winter Wonderland Wiki Project, we will create a winter picture in Kidpix. After we complete our pictures, we will record the class singing a winter themed song in GarageBand. We will mash the two together into a Web 2.0 application, and then place the final product on our project wikispace pages.
Try these sites at home!
Self-Portrait
This week we will learn another verse to Our Computer song. We will also review the drawing tools in KidPix so that you can draw a picture of yourself for the class website. We will learn how to use the drawing tools, the paint bucket, the eraser, and the text tool.
Self-Portrait
This week we will learn another verse to Our Computer song. We will also review the drawing tools in KidPix. Next we will draw a self-portrait in preparation for our Voicethread project.
Life Cycle of A Meal Worm
Today we will learn another verse of Our Computer song. Next, we will create the Life Cycle Of A Meal Worm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Self Portrait 2
Today we will learn another verse of Our Computer Song. We will finish our self-portraits using KidPix, learning how to print, export our pictures into a JPEG format, and place the exported file into the Group folder. Go to the dock and click on the documents folder. Find your self-portrait document and double click it open.