Kindergarten Seasons Animations
Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about Earth patterns, cycles, and seasons (SOL K.9 & K.10), so today Ms. Feldman’s class created animations to show how trees change through the seasons. We used ABCYa! Animate to create the animations. On the first frame, students painted a line across the bottom for the ground and filled it in with the paint bucket. Then we painted a tree with some bare branches. We copied our picture four times using the copy cat button. Then the students went back to each frame to add details for the specific seasons. For spring, we added blossoms to the tree; for winter, we changed the color of the ground to light grey and painted snowflakes; for summer, we painted green leaves on the tree; and for fall, we painted different colored leaves falling to the ground. Some students added additional creative details. We downloaded our finished animations as GIF files, then I took them to a page I created on Padlet so they could post their animations. They double clicked on the “bulletin board,” typed their name in the title, and uploaded their animation. A cool feature of Padlet is that animated gifs stay animated on the board, so you can see all the changing trees here.