Kindergarten students at Holladay Elementary have been learning about measurement with nonstandard units (SOLK.10) and they’ve been studying money (SOLK.7). Today students in Ms. Silber’s class used coins to measure a snake they drew. This was their first lesson with Pixie, and since many kindergarten students have a hard time using the computer track pad, we decided that a snake would be the easiest thing for them to paint. First they opened Pixie, and I showed them how to add a text box and type their name. Next, they used the paint brush tool, selected a color, and painted a (kind of) straight line for their snake. We used the 3D brush to make two googly eyes. Then I showed the students how to use the coin stamp tool, and they chose a coin they wanted to use for their nonstandard unit of measurement. We discussed the importance of placing the coins right next to each other. After the students stamped out how many coins long their snake was, they used the paint brush and painted the number. We exported the finished paintings as JPEG files and posted them to CoMemories. You can see them all here.
