5th Grade Illustrated Stories with Kerpoof
Many of you have been missing Pixie these first couple of weeks at school. I promise it’s coming! But in the meantime, there are some online alternatives. Two web-based drawing tools are ArtPad and Imagination Cubed. However, fifth graders at Chamberlayne really needed Pixie’s stickers today to illustrate the stories they had typed up earlier this week in Pages. So I took them to Kerpoof. It’s blocked in the county, but it’s worth unlocking for your students (you’ll need to type in your password for them, don’t let them do it). Once they are on the site they can go to “Make A Picture” or “Make a Story” (“Spell a Picture” is great for younger ages). The students were able to create a scene from their story and search for clip art. If they couldn’t find a picture of an object they wanted, they could even draw their own and add it to the scene! Your students can use all the tools for free and just take screenshots of their pictures (that’s what we did), but if you want to save them, you can set up student accounts with their own passwords. Here are a couple sample stories they illustrated: Chavis and Jordanne.