FIRST GRADE SEASONS BOOKS

An important technology skill that students learn and practice regularly is file management. When you work on a computer, it is necessary for you to understand how to save a file to an appropriate place (folder) and name it in such a way that it can be easily retrieved at a later date. The First Grade practiced this skill while working on this book in Kid Pix. The master template file was in each student's personal folder. They opened this template file, created a picture of one of the four seasons and then saved the file in their folder, assigning it the name of that season. That left their original master template file untouched, and allowed them to open it and begin on another season picture. By the end of the book, students were very good at navigating their way back to their folder (located on the school's server) and naming files appropriately. This is a skill many adults still struggle with! Students printed their final seasons pages and designed a cover which were bound together as a book.