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KidWorks 2 - Big & Little - SS-I.1.1

Language Arts
Yes

Math
Yes

Description
Using Kid Works 2 Story Illustrator, students will make big and little stickers using the Shift Key and place the stickers beside the appropriate label of Big or Little. This activity will reinforce the classroom learning of the comparison concept of big
and little.

LessonPlan
Yes

Tech Skills
Use of the Shift key. 

Software
Kid Works 2 -Story Illustrator

EarlyYears
Yes

SubmittedBy
Leslie Gentes & Oriole Veldhuis

E-mail: lgentes@wsd1.org

Details

With less experienced students the teacher may wish to save a template file in each computers picture box with the words little and big already placed on the page. When signing on to each computer to save this template file I usually use the code word "big" to sign on.  More experienced students could type in the words themselves but you may wish to give them a visible clue to the word spelling on a poster or slip of paper at each computer.

Before beginning the lesson, students sit in front of a demonstration computer and I review how to use the Shift key to make the first letter of their name a capital letter.  Then I  review the entire lesson for them from beginning to end with the focus on  how you can make a sticker big by holding down the shift key while clicking on the chosen sticker. (Optional:  I make sure the sound is turned on loud so that the students identify the cymbal sound to acknowledge they have correctly chosen the "big" sticker function.) In the demonstration I purposely place some stickers in the incorrect location "big or little" so that we can review the skills of using the Medicine Bottle to undo a mistake or  the Eraser tool.

After signing on to Kid Works 2 students are instructed to go to the Story Illustrator.
Student either click on the picture box to open the template file or they are instructed touse the Typewriter tool to type in the words "little" near the top of the screen and "big"near the bottom of the screen.
Students are then asked to use the Typewriter tool to type in their name.
Students then place little stickers in a cluster around the word "little" and big stickers around the word "big".
You can expect that many will have forgotten how to use the Shift key and the mouse to make the stickers big.  You may need to verbally remind the class as a whole or individually how to make the stickers big. 

Extensions:  Students can be encouraged to change the colors of the stickers as they go. 
The Control key and the mouse will give you a middle-sized sticker and you may anothertime wish to use big, bigger, and biggest .