Grade 2: Wow Day Invitations

Just a quick one today, in between Minetest updates.

Next week is our Wow Day at school. Our Wow Day is similar to a parent showcase, the children have their classwork and artwork ready to show to their visiting families. We had been asked to create an invitation for Wow Day and it was a great excuse to polish up our MS Word skills. I had provided the Grade 2s with a very standard template for an invitation to our Wow Day. It looked something like this:

Yawn.

Functional, but not very exciting. Within an hour lesson, they managed to transform their bland templates into these!

Jazzy underwater invitations.

Skills that we worked on:

• Inserting picture - This is a tricky one for my students since it involves navigating through the file directory which they are still getting used to. 

• Formatting picture - The only way we could get our invitations the way we wanted them was to use the wrap picture - tight option. This is a new skill for us.

• Adding page border - Brand new skill. At least this option is easy to locate. They were excited about the large range of borders on offer and I think we'll be adding a border to every piece of work from now on!

• Formatting font - We do this often but students still needed reminder about where the font style options were. Many children went all out and changed font colour, style and size.

• Adding adjectives - We jazzed up the boring sentences by adding our own adjectives to describe our artwork and the Wow Day.