We had Monday off for Presidents Day (SOL1.3), so many 1st grade students have been learning about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (SOL1.2) this week. Today 1st graders in Ms. Reese’s class at Laburnum reviewed facts about the presidents, practiced writing sentences, and learned a new program called Comic Life. I gave them a template with 4 panels that you can download by clicking here. I also gave them a folder of pictures to use that you can download by clicking here. First they chose which president they wanted to write about and typed his name in the title. I showed them how they could change the font and color using the Style button. Next we added some pictures to three of the four panels. There were portraits and photographs of the presidents as well as pictures of money, monuments, and memorials. For each picture they chose, the students had to write a short sentence in the speech bubble. Finally they took their picture with the Capture button and typed a sentence about themselves in their speech bubble. I combined them all together into one PDF document and uploaded it to Flipsnack. You can see their finished comic book online here.
