Animals
Aaron uses Word and PowerPoint

Animals

Sybil Montero's First Grade Class

Cardinal Valley Elementary School 

The students researched their animals on the Internet, and then composed their sentences. The pictures and text were all created in WiggleWorks. Contact your TRT for information about this program.

From Aaron's mother: 

"On Monday, April 22, 2002, Aaron brought his PowerPoint presentation home from school. He was so excited and proud of it that he wanted his dad and I to see it. He said, 'Mommy and daddy, come back in my room so you can see my PowerPoint presentation.' Of course I was as excited as he was about it. He then put in his disk, pulled up Microsoft PowerPoint and started to show us what he had done. I was just amazed at how much these little people (he is 7 years old) can learn. He did his presentation on a community helper named John Washington. He is a police officer and a friend of ours . . . "

" . . . After he had finished showing us his presentation, he . . . said, 'Mommy, I'm tired of clicking. I want to type.' So I told him that he could bring up Microsoft Word and type all he wanted. . . .  I have included a copy of the letter [he typed] as well as the presentation."

[Aaron is a student in Mrs. Bell's first grade class at Northern Elementary.]