Generating Wordles with Grade 8 Technology Buddies

Wordles are 'word clouds' and are a great way to capture a lot of information on a subject in an aesthetic way. Today we met with the Grade 8 class to do some partnered technology work. Each kindergarten child shared what he or she loved about school and their Grade 8 buddy used this information to generate a personalized wordle. The Grade 8 prompted the kindergarten child by asking thoughtful questions about school in order to promote reflection and rich oral language.

Here are a few examples of the completed Wordles. It was amazing to review these with the children and see what they loved about school! Copies will be coming home shortly - why don't you consider engaging your child is a discussion about how they created the Wordle and what their favourite parts of school are?

 

Technology Buddies

Today we partnered up with the grade eight class in order to do some work on the iPads. We were hoping to train our children on how to use the app Pic Collage and thought buddying them up with an older student would be effective because it would give them scaffolded support with hands-on practice. It was a huge success!  Our children loved working with an older buddy. 

We hoped to make an environmental print alphabet book so we assigned each pair an alphabet letter.  The pairs went on a letter hunt around the school and collected and organized photos of objects using the app. 

Once we had created our collages we came back together as a group to share our work. 

Here are some of their amazing pages!