The day after a snow day, the students can’t wait to tell you what they did on their day home from school.  Why not let them all tell you at the same time?  They can all share their stories by opening up Pixie on the laptops and typing away.  The 1st grade students in Mrs. Locher’s class at Maybeury did just that after coming back to school from their snow day.  We started by opening Pixie and selecting a text box.  The students spent about half of the class period typing their stories about what they did on their snow day.  We asked the students to try their best with spelling.  This way their teacher can pull up their work later and use it for an editing station.  Unlike Pages, Pixie allows the students to type their inventive spelling words without putting a red line underneath of the words.  The red lines tend to throw the students off because they want it to be perfect.  After the students had a good amount of typing done, I showed them how they could find pictures to add to their writing.  We discussed how the illustrations needed to go along with the writing prompt.  They found pictures that related to their story and added them to their document.  Finally, we saved their work in their student folders so that they could go back later and continue adding text and pictures to their page.  Here’s an example from one of her 1st graders:

From Snow Day Writing