We are a K-12 private school divided into three divisions. Our 4th graders are at the “top” of their division and will be moving on to middle school very soon.

As a “Good-bye to Lower School” project, I ask the students to think back over their past years at our school (whether they’ve been here just for one or two years or they’ve attended since kindergarten) and illustrate their favorite memories. I then ask the children to look ahead to the future and illustrate what they would like to do for a career. We discuss how ideas may change in the coming years but it’s fun to look back when they go off to college to see if their career plans are similar or completely different!

We used Microsoft’s Paint program for the illustrations. These were uploaded to my Picasa Web Albums – that allowed the students to save their pictures to an iPad. Then they could import the pictures into Explain Everything to record their thoughts. The completed videos were combined into class movies using the iMovie app.

Unfortunately for me, I didn’t check video size limitations to upload to Vimeo! Each video was much too large so I split each class into parts one and two!

Mr. d’Auteuil: Part 1

Mr. d’Auteuil: Part 2

Mrs. Malone: Part 1

Mrs. Malone: Part 2

Mrs. Wright: Part 1

Mrs. Wright: Part 2