Kindergarten Coin Match Up

The kindergarten students in Ms. Miller’s class at Holladay have been learning about the coins and their values. Pixie is a great program for reviewing the coins because there are coin stickers in the clip art library. However, this class was already familiar with Pixie, so I wanted to try something new with them. I was impressed with ABCYa’s Animation Site, so I figured I’d use their Painting Site and see how it went. I like it because it’s similar to Pixie with drawing tools, text, stamps, and clip art, plus you can save your pictures as a JPEG file. However, sometimes you can’t tell how a website will work until you test it with a whole class, and unfortunately, I ran into some problems with saving that I’ll explain later. Most of the site worked very well. I showed the students how to use the clip art to get a picture of a child that looked like them. Then they typed their names. They used the stamp tool to stamp out one of each type of coin (a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter). Next, for the coin values, we used the number cupcakes from the clip art library. Finally, the students used different color paints to draw a line from the coin to its value. To save, we clicked the save button and navigated to our folders, but when we checked, many students’ pictures were not saved this way. So we took screenshots (Apple + Shift + 3). I uploaded all their pictures to Comemories and you can see them here.