Mr. Rennie's Class

  Today the kids worked with wordle for the second time. Last time they created word groups to represent themselves. Today they did a wordle to represent their novel's main character and their traits. They were quick and efficient, most taking them home to color for Monday or finishing them in class.

  Many moved on from there to reading the web site posted poems and explored Toondo, a cartooning site linked here under resources. They need more time with it but they enjoyed creating cartoons with text. This site requires the user to set up a free account but really helps kids see writing in a different light showing the narrative in a different way. It will help cement use of dialogue and voice and I look forward to seeing what they come up with next week. One boy actually thought it wasn't fair at first because the person beside him was on a game site. He was thrilled when he realized he was expected to "play" on the site.