We have been reading Maurice Sendak’s classic story “Where the Wild Things Are” in class. We have enough books so that each student can have a copy in front to them. On Wednesday afternoons our 4th grade Reading Buddies come to our class. Last week we read the story together and then wrote down important words from the story. I collected all these words and typed them on a word document. Then I copied and pasted these words on a wordle .
The picture above shows what we created. Try making your own wordle. Laura says she has tried making one at home.
Come back to our blog later to see our “Wild Things”. We each made a wild thing. We are all excited to go see the movie. It starts today. I think I will have to wait until next weekend to see it. I can’t wait.

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We have Open House this Wednesday, Sept 16th.  I hope to see you there.

]]> http://teacher102.edublogs.org/2009/09/14/welcome-back-to-school-2009-2010/feed/ 7 http://teacher102.edublogs.org/2008/12/01/ive-been-tagged-word-meme/ http://teacher102.edublogs.org/2008/12/01/ive-been-tagged-word-meme/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:47:19 +0000 teacher102 http://teacher102.edublogs.org/?p=163 I was tagged by Maddie Shapiro for the Wordle Meme started by Lee Kolbert. Wordle is a Web 2.0 application for generating Word Clouds from text which you provide. Words that appear more frequently in the text are featured larger. I took the challenge and my Wordle appears below. Click on the wordle to make it bigger.

I am happy to see that book and children are quite prominent.  I would like to see the word “reading” larger. It gives me an idea of what I’d like to focus more on in my blog.   We are embarking on a telecollaborative project with a class in Grosse Ile, QC, an island off the coast of Gaspe.  We did a skype call with them and my class had many questions for them.  We wondered if they had a boat.  We found out that many of the dads were fishermen and they caught lobster.  We plan to do another skype call soon.

So with my reflection on the Wordle complete, I would like to tag Trish Dower, Donna Anderson, and Karen Rye.

Here are the directions:
1. Create a Wordle from your blog’s RSS feed.
2. Blog it and describe your reaction. Any surprises?
3. Tag others to do the same.