Use these examples of projects created by students and tweets from classroom teachers to inspire technology integration in your first-grade classroom.
Whether you have Chromebooks, iPads, PCs, or Macs in your classroom, you can use technology to engage and inspire your students in the curriculum.
"Wixie is like a blank canvas, full of possibilities! This platform can easily be navigated by our youngest learners, who creatively demonstrate their learning through text, art, voice, and video. Wixie can be used in any content area from math to language arts and allows our teacher to to differentiate assignments and add in scaffolds like oral directions."
Meaghan Martin, MEd.
Inst. Tech. Coach
Prince William County Public Schools, VA
Have students write a simple story about a family member or friend. Have them record their voice and share on Mother's Day, Father's Day, or even Valentine's Day.
When students are ready to write original stories, Wixie gives them the tools to write, record, illustrate and publish to print or digital forms that are easy to share and showcase.
Have students illustrate an addition or subtraction story and record an explaination of the problem. Collect the student projects into a class book and solve all the problems together.
Use sentence stems based on favorite pattern stories to have students author their own adaptations of the books they are reading.
Have students create their own informational text including headings, a table of contents, captions, and labeling to find information. Publish their work as a great collection of nonfiction at just the right reading level for your students.
Students can use Wixie's mind mapping tools to brainstorm ideas and organize information. Combining text, visuals and connections in mind maps helps students show how ideas relate to one another.
Use this roadmap to build literacy, numeracy and computer science skills! Select an activity and assign to learners yourself or share the road map with students and have the progress at their own pace.
Wixie's tools are perfect for creating and the library of activities makes it easy to find assignments that match first-grade learning goals.
Our #AACPSAwesome first grade students are engaged in an interactive Wixie in Media with Mrs. Taylor & describing what they would do during a snow day! @aacpsoit ❄️ pic.twitter.com/y3inEKNurD
— SolleyAACPS (@SolleyAACPS) January 11, 2024
Mrs. Attiyah taught us how to use Wixie today! We had fun using stickers on our I-pads and then we practiced writing our new letters. pic.twitter.com/rQhdkueiVs
— Anne McDougald (@MsMcDougaldFRSD) November 16, 2023
Students divided objects into equal groups and recorded their thinking using the microphone tool in #Wixie! @HillsmereESAACP @aacpsoit pic.twitter.com/ZIxwLzHhM2
— Mrs Norris (@SheilaAnnNorris) September 24, 2024
Students in grades 1–2 read the book Whats My Superpower and then created a @Wixie_T4L project sharing what their superpower is! We have had so much fun learning about each other’s superpowers! pic.twitter.com/3FBicyEhAi
— Mrs.Dziedzicki 📚 (@BaileyESlibrary) May 8, 2024
1st Grade is so excited about the solar eclipse! #Eclipse2024 #Wixie project pic.twitter.com/vM9K4XEHYF
— Mr. V (@MrVybiral) April 8, 2024
The Great Eggscape! First grade read the Great Eggscape and then used Wixie to disguise their own eggs! @Tech4Learning @HumbleISD @HumbleISD_DDI @HumbleISD_JFE @CollinsAngelaG @MelissaC_JFE pic.twitter.com/mOkYwRPxoY
— Stefanie Mulvaney (@MrsMulvaney_JFE) March 26, 2024
CVE 1st Graders create their very own Me on the Map books on @tech4learning_wixie! Inserting their picture on each page with a map of Earth ➡️North America ➡️ USA➡️ Maryland ➡️Towson! pic.twitter.com/t8Q9yG0kTe
— We are CVE STEAM🌟 (@WeAreCVESTEAM) November 8, 2023
1st grade students started using WIXIE in tech class today! WIXIE is a creativity platform. Ss share what they know through writing (text boxes), their voice, and their art. 🐴@KimberlyAPerri @Principa1Watson @fcpsnews @FCPSR5 @Wixie_T4L 💻 pic.twitter.com/ZBcFRIBn2w
— McNair Elementary (PreK-2) (@FCPSMcNairES) September 22, 2023
It's story time again with our 1st graders. Click the link below to take a listen to this cool story for the letter X.
— Public School 131 (@ps131K15) June 16, 2023
Students used #Wixie to narrate a story for the letter of their choice.#YoungAuthorsAtWork @NYCDOED15 @StamatinaH @UlanaKorovec https://t.co/v6yhoJN8FY pic.twitter.com/DyUxCSnxk9
Working hard to the end of school. 3rd Ss finalize research projects in @Wixie_T4L using the talkie feature to share the research about an animal. @LRESBookworm @LittleRiverLCPS @ScottLoomis pic.twitter.com/t0zdaNKwYY
— Beth Fisher (@BethFisherIFT) June 6, 2024
These 1st graders were so creative making a box into not a box! Rockships, flowers , humans, oh my! @Tech4Learning We read Not a Box first. @DodgeGI pic.twitter.com/XgdFsD8erE
— Valerie Chmelka (@vchmelka) April 19, 2022
After learning what a seed needs to grow, first grade students created animations in Wixie of the life cycle of a seed. pic.twitter.com/wt3iNnJZen
— Fox Mill ES (@FoxMillES) April 15, 2022
#k2cantoo @Tech4Learning- First grade students #collaborated on making and describing aquariums. Look at how creative they were! pic.twitter.com/QqK0tnlzix
— Sangster Elementary (@Sangster_ES) April 25, 2022
We've been learning how to solve and create story problems and number sentences in Wixie this week! pic.twitter.com/QP2ilwUYbk
— Ms. Schroeder (@MsSchroeder1st) October 29, 2020
First Graders Eli, Wali, and Geo use Wixie for Maps Project Based Learning #doreCPES @CunninghamPark pic.twitter.com/Wrd7MQIszD
— KRDTeach (@KRDTeach_CPES) January 31, 2017
G1 Ss using #Wixie to reflect on their field trip to the @VAAquarium pic.twitter.com/axxLhknp0M
— Brooke Martinette (@rbmartinette) January 31, 2017
Mrs. Reals' 1st grade started planning their 4th little pig houses design on #wixie#EDP pic.twitter.com/PGodxaJhsS
— Mrs.Showalter'sClass (@ShowalterClass) November 4, 2016
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1st gr. illustrators used artistic elements to create a Wixie page for Pigeon's next adventure. @The_Pigeon @MsSudia pic.twitter.com/NxAnoOrxDQ
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