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You can easily loose track of time playing on this website. Here I took my upcoming class list and made a "Welcome Poster" for them. I found some limitations. I want to say "Welcome to 2nd Grade" as one of the highly repeated phrases, but found out that your are not able to use a "digit - 2" and even though the phrase was repeated the most, it did not connect the words, therefore, I just used "Welcome". To keep the phrase "Team Pieper" together, I took out the space between Team and Pieper keeping the caps and lower case letter in tacked.
I have used a similar program, Wordly, with my second graders. They would build collections of phonetically patterned words and copy - paste them into the program. I had similar issues with this program with the addition of student names that where not "traditional" would not show up in the word art.
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I also thought it would be fun to creat a birthday timeline for our class. It was time consuming in that I have not put together a class list with birthday's and photos, so I just add a few students to the timeline to give it a start. I think my students will enjoy the interactive piece to the site. They will enjoy finding themselves and their friends.
Welcome Back, Chelly! I liked both of these ideas -- ways to incorporate and welcome your students, and also create something meaningful. There's nothing like seeing your own name and/or face on the screen!
ReplyDeleteBoth look great, Chelly. I like how you create things you will actually use. I would enjoy being a child in your 2nd grade class!
ReplyDeleteThis is super cute! Your students will love that! Especially with the photo next to their birthday! They could even add information about themselves, and have a mini biography timeline of you class.
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