Category Archives: Pixie
KG Money
Click here to take a look at their awesome work! Kindergarten students in Mrs. Hardiman’s, Miss Lazarchic’s, Mrs. Marone’s, and Mrs. Barradale’s (3.22.10) classes practiced their money skills using Pixie. They also learned how to open a folder full of Pixie slides. Students identified, sorted, and counted various coins to show what they know. Grab […] Continue reading
Sandston February 24, 2010
Today Mrs. Moore’s and Ms. Beagle’s kindergarten classes enriched their learning of sink and float. Students worked did their own virtual experiements on a site created by David Clough, Henrico ITRT. The students also did a Pixie activity to determine if they understood sink and float. If you’d like to use these activities in your […] Continue reading
Fair Oaks February 18, 2010
Today Mrs. Cross’ Preschoolers used the laptops for the first time! They were so excited and did such a fabulous job. They took their pictures in Pixie and put it on a snowsuit. They added snowmen and snowflakes to their winter pictures.
Mrs. Slayton did a lesson in the library with the Mrs. Axtell’s fourth graders. […] Continue reading
Making Arrays in Pixie
Ms. Byrd (Ridge Elementary) came up with this great idea, making multiplication arrays in Pixie. We used the stamper tool and each student had a different problem to illustrate. Click here for the Pixie Template.
First Grade Shapes
Mrs. Flowe (1st Grade Teacher at Twin Hickory) had the cutest student projects on the bulletin board in the hall. For their study of shapes, she had students make animals using shapes in Pixie. I like to spotlight good ideas and this is a very cute one. Here is one sample:
Civil War Diaries
5th Grade students at Shady Grove have transformed themselves into Civil War Soldiers. We used Pixie to decorate our uniforms (some chose the North, others chose the South) See sample below:
Next, we exported the artwork out as a .jpg, and put into word processing, to keep a diary. Here is one student’s sample.
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Extra Extra Read All About it
A work in progress: As soon as we have the timelines finished, we will post here.
Make a Book In Pixie
Did you know that you can make a story book (title, beginning, middle, end) in Pixie? Attached are all 4 Pixie Documents. When finished, have all 4 open. File > Print All. Selet Book format. It will come out of the printer ready to fold in half hot dog style, then hamburger style, and poof […] Continue reading
Fair Oaks January 26, 2010
Mrs. Slayton did a great lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. with Ms. Patterson second grade class in the library. She used Pixie and had the students tell about their dreams when they grew up. The students typed their dreams and took a picture of themselves. I was only there for minimal assistance.
Mrs. Curtis’ first […] Continue reading
Donahoe January 25, 2010
Ms. Ball’s kindergarten class used Pixie for the first time. The students made a snowman. They had to arrange two snowball from largest on the bottom to smallest on the top. Next the students took a picture of themselves to use as the snowman’s head. Then they decorated their snoman by adding arms and hats. […] Continue reading
