Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Spelling Word Clouds

We were able to practice our spelling words last week in a very fun way! We used the mini-laptops to type the words and then made "word clouds" on www.abcya.com . This is an activity that I used many times when I taught first grade, so I knew the fourth graders would do great with this. They had so much fun! After checking their spelling, they had fun changing the fonts, color and layout of their word clouds. 

http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm





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We did a new kind of "warm-up" for Math today. This came from the book Codebreakers . We started off with some easy puzzles and w...