SILLY ABC SENTENCES
Students listen to the Dr. Seuss’s ABC-An Amazing Alphabet Book! Students discuss the alliteration found in the story. Students come up with words that start with an assigned letter and put them together to make a silly sentence. Students then use a Pixie template to illustrate their sentence and type out the silly sentence they create. The Pixie project is then exported to an iMovie project where the students record their voice to narrate their sentence and illustration.
growth mindset
STUDENTS DISCUSS SITUATIONS THAT ARE DIFFICULT AT FIRST BUT IF THEY USE A GROWTH MINDSET THEY WILL OFTEN FIND THE SUCCESS THEY EARN BY NEVER GIVING UP AND WORKING HARD ON A SKILL UNTIL THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL. STUDENTS THEN CREATE AN ILLUSTRATION OF THEIR GROWTH MINDSET EXAMPLE AND THEN TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE.
MS. BLAISE'S CLASS
"PINKALICIOUS"
Students listen to the story “Pinkalicious.” Students choose a color they would like to turn into if they eat too many food items of a certain color. Using Pixie, students draw of picture of themselves as the color they choose. Students add food items of the same color by drawing their own favorite foods or by selecting/modifying existing food stamps from the Pixie Stamp Library. The Pixie project is then narrated and exported to an iMovie class project.
MRS. BROWN'S CLASS
"WHY I LIKE WINTER"
Students listen to the story “The First Day of Winter.” Students discuss dressing appropriately for the cold winter weather. Using Pixie, students will add stickers of winter clothing to a picture of themselves. Students will then record their voice to narrate something they like about winter.
Mrs. howell's Class
"WHY I LIKE Fall"
Students used a program call Pixie to create an illustration that represented special topics about the season of fall. Using Pixie, students were then recorded saying something that made “fall” special to them. The individual recorded Pixie illustrations were combined to make a class iMovie about why they liked fall.
“Samples from Four Kindergarten Classes from 2009-2010”
Mo Willems Arasma Project
Books written by Mo Willems were introduced to the kindergarteners in Media class. After the students had gained a background of experience with Mo Willems’s books they were asked questions:
1. What is your favorite Mo Willems’s book and why?
2. What is your favorite Mo Willems’s character and why?
3. Finish the sentence, “Don’t let the pigeon …”
4. What would you like to do with your best friend?
Students were then video taped with a green screen background as they answered their question.
The project then used an app called Aurasma, where students can go home and trigger or activate their video using a specific image.
Aurasma is a free app for Android mobile devices. Aurasma’s image recognition technology uses a smartphone’s or tablet’s camera to recognize images (called “Triggers”) and then allow the recognized image to turn into animations, videos, etc (called “Auras”).
Once you have downloaded “Aurasma” to your mobile device you will need to follow “mrparlette”. You can then use the images sent home or the images on this wiki labeled as the “Triggers”. These images should trigger the recorded videos from the students in the class. The recorded videos are labeled “Auras”.
1. What is your favorite Mo Willems’s book and why?
2. What is your favorite Mo Willems’s character and why?
3. Finish the sentence, “Don’t let the pigeon …”
4. What would you like to do with your best friend?
Students were then video taped with a green screen background as they answered their question.
The project then used an app called Aurasma, where students can go home and trigger or activate their video using a specific image.
Aurasma is a free app for Android mobile devices. Aurasma’s image recognition technology uses a smartphone’s or tablet’s camera to recognize images (called “Triggers”) and then allow the recognized image to turn into animations, videos, etc (called “Auras”).
Once you have downloaded “Aurasma” to your mobile device you will need to follow “mrparlette”. You can then use the images sent home or the images on this wiki labeled as the “Triggers”. These images should trigger the recorded videos from the students in the class. The recorded videos are labeled “Auras”.
AURASMA DIRECTIONS:
1. DOWNLOAD THE AURASMA APP ONTO YOUR SMART PHONE/TABLET.
1. DOWNLOAD THE AURASMA APP ONTO YOUR SMART PHONE/TABLET.
2. Launch the Aurasma App. You will be directed to view a tutorial. You can skip through the tutorial.
3. Select “login” besides the option that says you already have an account.
Username: hesvistor
Password: hesvisitor
4. Click “Join”
5. You are ready to view. Hold your phone/tablet over the “Trigger” image while Aurasma is running. It will show your camera with 6 spheres bouncing around. When you hold these bouncing spheres over the “Trigger” image, the picture will come to life with a movie.
Good luck.
3. Select “login” besides the option that says you already have an account.
Username: hesvistor
Password: hesvisitor
4. Click “Join”
5. You are ready to view. Hold your phone/tablet over the “Trigger” image while Aurasma is running. It will show your camera with 6 spheres bouncing around. When you hold these bouncing spheres over the “Trigger” image, the picture will come to life with a movie.
Good luck.
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SILLY ABC SENTENCES
Students listen to the Dr. Seuss’s ABC-An amazing Alphabet Book! Students discuss the alliteration found in the story. Students come up with words that start with an assigned letter and put them together to make a silly sentence. Students then illustrate their sentence and type out the silly sentence they create. The silly image and sentence are then scanned and converted into a jpeg image. This image is exported to an iMovie project where the students record their voice to narrate their sentence and illustration.
(NOTE: IN 2008-2010 THIS PROJECT WAS MADE WITH HAND-DRAWN ILLUSTRATIONS, UNLIKE THE ILLUSTRATIONS MADE WITH PIXIE IN 2011-2012.)
Samples from Four Kindergarten Classes from 2007-2008