KIDPIX ACTIVITY

This Activity is mainly addressed to kids aged 6 to 8 which would be Cicle Inicial in Catalan Primary Systems. To do this activity we will need to use the tool Kidpix.
First of all, the basic competences we intend to work in the task are the following:
- Cultural and artistic competences. - The kids will have to resort to their cultural knowledge of the words which are items they use in their everyday context in order to represent them.
- Autonomy and personal initiative. - Using their imagination, each child will try to draw what the word means to them and identify where these objects are most commonly found. They will work individually and they’ll have to create their own designs.
Secondly, kids will discover their material as well as they develop the ability to match words with the representative concept they already have in their minds, either related with their mother tongue (in our case Catalan) or with the physical representation the object has. The following objectives have been thought to be the activity’s goal:
1. - To discover the use of a word according to a context, which in this case is the school.
2. - To recognise the different items children need at school and also the people who work there.
3. - To learn how these objects and people’s charges are spelt in English.
4. - To encourage children’s previous knowledge and imagination to work freely within the classroom and using the ICT.
Thirdly, what we can work here as teachers is their vocabulary and their understanding of meanings which are vital to work in the developing of the English Area.
How do you do it? And what do you need?
1. - The kids will find a table containing the words they have been taught previously in their English lessons. (at least 9 or 10)
2. - They will use the Kid Pix tool to draw what the words mean to them in real life.
3. - All you need is their imagination, a computer and Kid Pix software (they will need your guidance too).