Kidspiration Reflection

I loved kidspiration! It was not as much fun as photoshop, but that might be because it is kid-geared and kiddie-user friendly. Anyways, I decided to do a vocabulary mapping activity. I used one of the stories that we actually read in first grade and chose a vocab word from the book. I think this would be great for vocabualry review since that is such a big part of first grade. We have a series of read-alouds that go along with our reading series and they each have lots of vocab that we study along with the story. It would be really cool to have a slide show of sorts for each of the stories vocab words already up for the year. I think that might be something to think about and work on for the upcoming year to share with all of the other teachers.

But I liked the program overall and I think that I could utilize it for lots of things, especially since we are going to have a computer lab this year. So I could have the kids make story maps, work on the writing of story elements, and do other subjects such as Social Studies where I can hit the GPS using technology. It is alot to think about.