Comic Life Projects

Comic Life is a wonderful piece of software for which there are a great many applications. So far this year, students in grades 3 and 4 have used this software for a number of projects. Students in Grade 3 created summaries for their States report research using Comic Life. Grade 4 students used Comic life to create bartering comics. Another class of 4th graders used Comic life to create comics that document the Spanish Exploration of old California.

Friendship Quilts

Friendship Quilts were created by student in Grade 1. For the project, students worked on a template created in Microsoft Word. Students went around to each computer to type in a short message for their classmates. This project gave students plenty of opportunities to practice their typing. Students enjoyed typing messages for their classmates and especially enjoyed the comments left by their classmates.

Digital Stories

Students in Grades 3-5 have created digital stories using Microsoft Photostory software. This week, students in Ms. Randi and Ms. Saldivar completed their stories. To create digital stories, students first wrote personal narratives, next they drew pictures depicting various scenes of their stories. The pictures were then scanned and imported into Photostory. Students then added narration and created their own music to go along with their stories.

I Have A Dream Projects

Students in Grade 1 created "I Have A Dream" projects. To create the projects, students drew a self-portrait using Tux Paint. Next they imported their pictures into Powerpoint and added the text of their dream. Through this project, students gained skills in opening files, computerized drawing, saving files, typing text, importing a picture into Powerpoint and more!


Mrs. Kluch's class

Ms. Hilsen's class

Ms. Chiro's class

ABC Books of Living and Non-Living Things

Students in Grade 1 completed their class ABC books on Living and Non-Living Things. Each student was assigned a letter of the alphabet for which they drew a living or non-living thing using the program Tux Paint. Here is their work:

Hilsen's class book



Kluch's class book



Gonzalez's class book




Chiaro's class book

Senses Charts Created with Drawing for Children

Students in Grade 1 were introduced to a program called "Drawing For Children". While using this program, students were able to practice a number of important technology skills. Some of the skills practiced were double clicking, opening and closing files, saving, choosing different tools such as stamps, painting tools, using the Shift key to modify text, importing pictures and much more. Students used the "Drawing For Children" program to work on a project that was directly related to their Science unit on "the Five Senses". As part of the project, students worked on completing a graphic organizer in which they used stamps to indicate what could be seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelled. In addition to the many computer skills practiced through this project, students had an opportunity to reinforce classroom learning.

Digital Stories and Claymation

Second grade students have been busy getting familiar with using the laptops. Mr. Serafin's class created Powerpoint presentations to showcase their knowledge of animals. Mrs. Nieto/Gordon's participated in a digital storytelling project in which they wrote, illustrated and narrated text to make their stories "come alive". Completed projects were displayed at Open House and enthusiastically received by parents. Click here to view one of the student created digital story projects. Students in Mrs. Nieto/Gordon's class will be experimenting with claymation during the last week of school. The claymation project with culminate a writing project on animals.