Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns, A Free Download

Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns, A PowerPoint Book. Download here!

Here is another activity made with Microsoft PowerPoint. It was made quickly and easily with clip-art from Microsoft Office. Use while expanding sentences, practicing plurals, and for a variety of articulation objectives. 

Print and bind to use as a full sized book, print as a handout to make mini-books, use it on your whiteboard, or save it as an e-book. 

Diana

© 2012

Describing Gourds

Describing gourds was always a fun fall activity with my younger students. In addition to color words, textures such as smooth, bumpy or rough can be introduced. Talk about those with stripes and those gourds that don't have stripes. It was very exciting when my students showed that they could use multiple characteristics to describe the gourds. 

I usually used a voice output device such as a TechTalk or a CheapTalk for visual support and auditory cues with this activity. I made the overlay below and it is posted on BoardmakerOnline.com.  If you don't have a voice output device, cut the buttons to make a choice board and your less verbal students can pull-off the characteristics that they want to use to describe the gourds. 

Describing Gourds at BoardmakerOnline.com

Diana

© 2012

The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2011 by Mayer-Johnson LLC. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Used with permission.

Boardmaker® is a trademark of Mayer-Johnson LLC.

What do you want to be?

With practice, you can make simple books for your whiteboard, computer, or iPad with Microsoft PowerPoint in less than 30 minutes. I made this one in 15 minutes with great photos and other clip art, all from Microsoft. Use this PowerPoint, What do you want to be?, when teaching he and she. 

Enjoy!

Diana

© 2012

Pumpkin Spatial Concepts

The children choose a card, tell where they will put the pumpkin, and put it in the pictured place. OR, "hide" the pumpkins in the pictured areas. Let the child find the pumpkin and using the picture for support, tell where the pumpkin was found. 

I reused this activity several times a year. The pumpkin could be an apple, a baseball mitt, or a shamrock. 

You must have Boardmaker to download this activity from BoardmakerOnline.com. 

If you don't have Boardmaker, take pictures of a small pumpkin in various places in the room for the same results.

Diana

© 2012

The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2011 by Mayer-Johnson LLC. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Used with permission.

Boardmaker® is a trademark of Mayer-Johnson LLC.

A Tutorial: Crop to Shape

In Microsoft PowerPoint, Crop to Shape allows you to crop an image to just about any shape.  In my last post, I cropped faces in photos to circles using the Crop to Shape tool and added them to my PowerPoint book, Who Scared the Crows?

Copy a photograph or other graphic and paste it to a PowerPoint slide. Now follow the directions below. 

1. Select the picture and click on Picture Tools. 

2. Click on Crop to Shape and choose your shape (I chose the circle).

3. My demonstration picture is now oval shaped so I need to click on Crop to see the crop handles. 

4. Move the crop handles until you have the desired shape and picture. Click on Crop in the drop-down menu. 

5. Add your picture to the PowerPoint and re-size as needed. 


To quickly add many pictures to a PowerPoint before you begin cropping, see my post about PowerPoint's Photo Album Feature. 

Diana

© 2012

Who Scared the Crows? - Customize Your Story

My students loved to see their pictures in my PowerPoint books.  You can add your pictures to Who Scared the Crows? by simply cropping photos as circles and adding them to this ready-made for you PowerPoint. 

Use this PowerPoint book to teach he and she, answer who questions, name classmates, practice articulation (s-blends, r-blends, s, r), regular past tense verbs, and plural -s. 

Diana

© 2012

My Fall Book - A Free Download

This was the first of many PowerPoint books that I made for my students several years ago. I sent this home on a CD. Most computers have PowerPoint Viewer so you don't need MSOffice to run it. For those without a computer, I sent the book home in printed form.  

Click to download My Fall Book

Don't forget that those with iPads can convert a PowerPoint to a pdf and view it in book form in iBooks. 

Diana

© 2012