On The Farm Writing

The On the Farm Writing activity is based upon one of the new Learning Magic Picture Writing templates that we are working on. In this case students are presented with a picture of a barn on the cover. They have the ability to write their name on the cover as the author of the book.

Once they go to the first writing page, they can click on the Insert Pictures button, which will open a toolbar with eight photos of different animals that may be found on a farm. They can then click on any animal to insert the picture onto the page. Then they can write about the animal in the textbox provided.

Please note that there are only five writing pages, so the child will get to select five out of the eight animals to write about. The pictures include the barn, a chicken, a cow, donkeys, a goat, a horse, a pig and a sheep.

It is our expectation that children will have already been introduced to farm animals and a barn prior to the use of this writing activity. An on-screen keyboard is provided as an extra support for children who need further assistance in their writing, and there is a custom IntelliKeys® overlay attached.

The On The Farm Writing activity utilizes one of Learning Magic's new writing templates that we are designing in conjunction with Susan Norwell and others. See further details about this project in What's New under "In the Works".We welcome your feedback on this prototype ond the other three Goodies based on this concept, Fort Clatsop Writing, State Fair Writing, and Firefighters Writing.

This activity was built in Classroom Suite v. 3.2. The activity can be run on the ITAN Player. But IntelliPics Studio 3® is needed to perform data capture, automatic grading and portfolio management, as well as any editing or changes to the activity itself. Required Software: IntelliTools Classroom Suite® v. 3.2 .