Winter/Holiday Project
My students have had the best time with TuxPaint this December. TuxPaint is a free download from www.tuxpaint.org. It is similar to Microsoft Paintbrush, but has way more options! They especially like the stamps, which allows them to fill a picture with stamped images. You must also download the stamps file when you download the program to access them. I added some pictures to the file so they would have a lot of holiday stamps from which to choose.
Second and third graders created a picture that was posted to www.winterwonderland.wikispaces.com. This is not MY wiki, but one started by 3 teachers who live in AL, CA and NY. There are participants from all over the world. We will have a project posted in January and another in February.
Fourth graders weren’t a part of this project, but I let them create a picture that we turned into a slide show posted to MY wiki – www.bsmithses.wikispaces.com. They did a fantastic job!
Third graders also helped in creating a gift for the kindergarten classes. Each student was responsible for creating a page in a Christmas Counting Book (Numbers 1 – 20) that was laminated and assembled to create a book for each of the 10 kindergarten classes.
I gave each of my students a card with some websites for the holidays. You can check them out too:
www.northpole.com, www.northpole.net, www.noradsanta.org
Have a wonderful Christmas break. Check back in January to see what we’re doing next!!!
