Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!! Enjoy your time off with your family. I will be back in the next few days to share our learning and fun from the last few weeks. :)



Wordle in the classroom

Tonight after school I attended a workshop on using Wordle in the classroom. Technology is always so amazing! I'm constantly blown away by new ideas and teaching tools.  Tonight I created one to use tomorrow... We are learning action verbs right now. i plan on having the students color in all of the action verbs. You could also have them color verbs one color and nouns another, etc.....

Same words...different formation...

Wordle can be used many other ways as well....back to school get to know you activity (words to describe them), character traits, vocab words, spelling words, synonyms, write autobiography about themselves...copy and paste into Wordle...compare and contrast themselves with others, etc.

The presenter of the workshop showed ths examples of synonyms

A video tutorial on how to create word clouds on Wordle can be found at

http://blog.simplek12.com/education/video-how-to-use-wordle-in-the-classroom/ 

Happy "Wordle"ing... :)

Gingerbread Activities

We will be starting our Christmas Around the World Unit this week. For Germany we do gingerbread activities. Here are a few. :) Enjoy!

Gingerbread Symmetry

Gingerbread Graphing

My Classroom

Another snow day! This is our third one so far and it's only December 13!

 Here are just a few pics of my classroom this year. i have done a different theme for the past four years. This year our theme is the Jungle... Mrs. Lewis' Learning Safari.

 

Magnificent Me....At the beginning of the year the students wrote an autobiography.  I copied their writing on transparency film. The students then cut around it and added it to their magnifying glass. 

Click here to download the Magnificent Me sign

Beanie Baby Reading Strategies
Signs were created by Christina Bainbridge

 



 

Information Hut Letters were cut out with my wonderful Cricut!

King/Queen of the Jungle Display
(student's things aren't displayed yet in this picture)

Jungle files

King/Queen of the Jungle form

King/Queen of the Jungle Sign

Desk Nameplates

Jungle Jobs sign

Monkey Business Desk Folders

Banana Birthdays

JUNGLE Book Cover - PDF

JUNGLE Book Cover - doc

Happy Birthday Blog!

Hello everyone!  I have always wanted to create a teaching website, but have never taken the time to find a domain and get things started. I'm snowed in today and decided to start a blog! Thanks for stopping by. Through this blog I hope to meet new people and share and gather new ideas.   Be patient with me as I try to figure it all out. Any tips would be great!:)