Students in Mr. Serafin's Grade 3 class created story books using an online program called "Storybird". With Storybird, students use artwork from real artists as their inspiration to craft a story..
Students in Mrs. Gillespie's Grade 2 class created digital stories that combined writing, narration and illustrations. Students really enjoyed watching their stories come to life. Click to enjoy one of our student's stories!
Showcase Project - Grade 1 Character Traits Project
Students in Grade 1 learned about character traits. They created posters using COMIC LIFE, that included pictures of people displaying the character trait of kindness. Students then wrote captions for the pictures.
Showcase Project - Grade 3 States Brochures
Grade 3 students created brochures on their state using Microsoft Publisher. Students researched attractions found in their states, imported pictures from the internet and formatted text for their brochures.
Showcase Project - 2nd Grade Poetry
Second grade students have been writing poetry with Ms. Montali. During technology time, students illustrated and published their poetry using Foundation purchased laptops. The second grade poets then recorded themselves reading their poetry piece.
Listen to the 2nd Grade Poetry pieces by clicking on the links below (note: poems are organized by the rotation):
Kindergarten students enjoyed a wonderful field trip to the nearby Birch Aquarium. After the field trip, students created Aquarium Mini-Books using Microsoft Powerpoint. Students typed in text and imported pictures into their projects. Beautiful covers were designed for their mini-books. The results were too cute!
Showcase Project - Halloween Digital Stories
Students in Grade 3 created digital stories using Microsoft Photostory. To create digital stories, students wrote Halloween stories and then 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. A sample digital story, "North American Halloween", may be viewed here: eugenia photostory compressed.wmv
Welcome to the TPES Tech Kidz Showcase Page. On this page you will find example of some of the exciting work that is being done by students using technology at Torrey Pines Elementary School. Please check back often for updates and enjoy! Mrs. Lin