Week 16 - Happy Holidays!

We had a short week due to the start of Winter Break so it was a good opportunity for the Baker students to enjoy some of the fun things they can do with computers. I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of the Baker families a happy and healthy holiday season. Thanks for being such a warm and caring community. Looking forward to a great year in 2015!

Week 15 - Formatting Type Part 3

For their third week formatting type, the students completed an exercise where they needed to make an unformatted selection of type match a previously formatted selection of the same type. With some help from friends like Kroc, the first graders showed off the skills they've acquired the past few weeks. Great job, gang! I think we're ready to try something new!

Week 14 - Formatting Type Part 2

We experimented with the appearance of our type again this week. The first graders completed an exercise where they used bold, italics, colors, size, font, and underline to make words match illustrations. Leaning trees, a wide pig, a fancy dog, and a couple of fish gave us plenty of opportunities to add some life to our text.

Week 13 - Formatting Type

When we create stories, poems, letters, etc., we don't just communicate with the words we use. We also communicate by the way our words look. Bold and italic type are used for emphasis. Colors can help communicate a feeling or emotion. Type size can be adjusted to give particular words more or less importance. And the endless variety of fonts can range from silly and playful to structured and traditional. Type formatting can be a very important form of communication.

This week, we introduced the first graders to type formatting, showing them the different ways they can change the appearance of their type and the process to go about changing it. We used bold, italics, underline, colors, fonts, and size. Watch out...now that our first graders have this new knowledge, their creative floodgates are open.