Kindergarten Letter Paintings

Screen Shot 2015-03-26 at 12.19.46 PMKindergarteners in Ms. Hart’s class at Laburnum Elementary have been learning the letter R this week. So I showed them how to use ArtPad to not only practice writing their letters, but to also practice the important computer skill of clicking and dragging. First we practiced just scribbling on the paper using different colors. Then I showed them how to change the size of the paintbrush by clicking and dragging the slider. They thought it was really cool that the brush changes! I also taught them about Undo. We undid our painting until we had a plain sheet of paper again (or you could just click Start Over, but we wanted to practice Undo). Now we painted an uppercase letter R and a lowercase letter r. I told them to draw one or two things that begin with the letter R. When they were finished I showed them how to replay their painting. They loved that! It’s also valuable for you as a teacher because you can watch exactly how the students are forming the letters. Take a look at a couple of student samples here and here. You could even make examples of other letters for students to watch and see how they are formed and try to guess the pictures before you finish. Here’s an example like that.