Wordle is pretty cool. You can put your blog URL in and it spit out pretty stuff like this. What I don’t like is that it’s all in a stupid java applet and you can just link to the image. I can’t get Java and Linux to place nice, or I’d just take a screen cap. But most of you can just click on the little picture to see it. It’s fun to play with.
I’m teaching one class of 7-year-old (kindergarteners) once a week. Right now, they’re still working on learning the alphabet. I was at Home Plus (where else?) on day and saw a bucket of alphabet magnets. The price wasn’t too outrageous (about what I’d expect in a US toy store) so I bought a set. It worked out perfectly. There were 4 sets of letters and 4 kids in the class. As they learn new letters, I add them to a plastic bag.
At the beginning of each class, we sing the ABC song a few times as a warm up. Then we do rock scissor paper (to avoid fighting over colors). When that’s all done, each student has a bag of magnets. They go up to the board and have to put them up in correct order. They struggle with things like the b and the d and the q and the p, so we sing and look at our big ABC poster.
Here are a few pictures of them from the first time they did the activity.
Last night I tried to make some changes here and ended up breaking the whole thing but good. I swear I shall never tempt fate by trying to make things better.
I must say thanks to eposodic for a response that pushed me in the right direction.
And since my knowledge of PHP is limited to how to spell it… well, I’m not going to muck around much anymore. I wish I had a local geek friend who could do this kind of stuff for a 6 pack and a pizza. Sadly, I’m the person who people come to with geeky problems.
Thankfully I don’t have anyone who’s past writing the five paragraph essay. But oh, when I was a TA in grade school. I remember your lazy butts.
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