With this simple game, children will learn one use of the Stamp Tool, the Typewriter Tool and the Slide Show feature in the Kid Pix Software Program. The children's recognition of beginning sounds will be reinforced.
What are the letters in your name?
What sounds do you hear from those letters?
Look at the Stamp Tools. Do you see any pictures that begin with the same sound of any letters in your name? Stamp that picture under the correct letter.
Can you find other stamps that represent the other sounds in your name?
Who do you think has the most unusal name in the class?
The student will become familiar with the Stamp Tool, the Typewriter Tool and the Slide Show feature in the Kid Pix software.
The student will reinforce the skill of beginning sounds by selecting stamps that begin with the sounds of the letters of their name. Each child will create their own secret code for their name.
The class will play a game of recognizing the names of the members of their class by the stamp clues.
Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Software Program
Kid Pix Studion Deluxe is a software program sold by Broderbund. It is inexpensive and is available in cross-platform format. More information may be found on the Teacher Created Materials site.
Open the "Kid Pix" selection.
My name begins with a "M", I could stamp a monkey, a motorcycle, or a mouth on the left hand side of the new page.
Increase the size of the stamp by pressing the "Option" or "Control" key as you stamp. If the name is very small, add the "Shift" key with the "Option" or "Control" key. It will increase the size more.
Select "Goodies." Scroll down the menu to "Select a Stamp." Click to open that selection. Several catagories of stamps will open for viewing. Make a selection of one of the catagories. Scroll through the stamps to locate additional stamps for the name.
Find a stamp that begins with the second letter of the name. Continue until a stamp is located for each letter of his/her name.
A straight line is drawn by pressing the shift key while dragging the mouse.
Save this page as "child's name."
Open "Slide Show Option" from Kid Pix Studio Picker.
A series of moving vans will appear on the screen. Click on "Moving Van" # 1.
Click on the picture frame icon at the far left bottom of the moving van. A text box gives you instructions to select a picture. Select a "child's name" picture. It is immediately loaded to the Van.
On Van #1, open the "musical note." The dialog screen lets you select a sound. Choose a sound or click on the microphone to record your own sound.
On Van #1, click on the last icon to create a transition. From the dialog screen choose a transition.
Repeat the pocess until all of the children have their names created with the Stamp Tool and loaded to the Slide Show.
After all pictures are loaded. Click on "Goodies", turn on "Manual Advance."
As a group activity, show the slide show, one slide at a time. The children decode the names with the beginning sound of each stamp. As they select the correct letter, type it into the blank below the picture.
Select a name from the Slide Show to post for other groups to decode.
Organization of the pictures on the page can be difficult. The younger the children the harder it is to place them across the page.
At times, the children have trouble limiting the sound to the "beginning" sound.
Children in "after-school" programs have fun with this lesson.
Duration: 2 sessions of 20-30 minutes each. One session for the creation of the stamps and the other session for group decoding.
Your child has been learning to use the Kid Pix Deluxe Program. Kid Pix is a simple, inexpensive program that is not limited to school use.
The children are using the Kid Pix Stamp Tool to reinforce their ability to hear and locate beginning sounds. The children were listening for the sounds found in their names and were looking for pictures with the same sounds.
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