Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning how to differentiate between living and nonliving things (SOLK.6). Today Ms. Dickey’s class sorted pictures of objects into two groups (SOLK.1d): living and nonliving. First we went to ABCYa!Paint and drew a straight line down the center. ABCYa! Paint has become a more reliable tool for painting in kindergarten since Pixie sometimes doesn’t show up with the kindergarten login. Next we used the text tool to type “Living” on one side of the line and “Nonliving” on the other. Then the students used the Stickers and the Stamp tool to add different images to the correct category. Some of them also painted pictures of objects they couldn’t find. We even had a good debate about whether dinosaurs should go in the living or the nonliving group. Once they were finished, we saved the image with the Save button and uploaded the pictures to CoMemories. CoMemories is a great, easy-to-use webtool for uploading pictures from a variety of computers and users. It’s as simple as dragging and dropping the picture onto the webpage. Even kindergarteners can do it! You can see all their pictures here.
