Wednesday Wit

This kind of just says it all, amiright teacher friends?!

"Practice Your Texting" designed by spacesick on Shirt Woot

 

And That's a Wrap!

The end of the school year.

What. A. School. Year.

I don't think I've ever had one where I was *that* busy!

At any rate, I have returned to the normal breakneck pace of every day life, and look forward to resuming regular posts again.

And to all my fellow educators... 

WE MADE IT!

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Wednesday Wit

 Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson is by far my all time favorite comic.  Here's a classic Calvin moment:

#ScratchWeek

With all the end-of-year chaos happening, and the additional cause-of-covid add-ons (think: zoom programs, recordings, editing, sharing, etc) it's been a chaotic week and a half in my world.

But I couldn't let this week pass without mentioning Scratch because this week is #ScratchWeek!

And it's quite timely, too, as our fourth graders are finishing up the video games they designed on Scratch.  I am rather impressed with how they're turning out, too!  The kids have seen their games from design to near-completion, and are currently in the testing phase.  A part of me thinks the testing phase is their favorite, as they're playing each others games and providing feedback to make them even better.

Because of the way the unit was scaffolded, the kids are practicing using their sources.  The directions for each of the three different games we created together have been posted in Google Classroom.  We've tasked the kids with comparing what they need in their game (for example, a sprite that is controlled by arrow keys) and then finding the directions in one of the games we already created.  

I am super excited to see the finished games - I promise to post them when they're completed!

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Fun with Fonts

Want a fun and simple way to add a bit of pizzazz to your Slides and Documents? Check out these Text Generators! All are free and web based - the only download is your finished product!  (And perfect additions to end-of-the year certificates and slides and such!)

Cool Text

Text Giraffe

Curve Text

TextAnim

This site let you copy and paste fun text into Google Classroom and such!

P.S.  I learned about these in the GEG MI Tech Challenge.  Look for it next year if you want to join in, too.  It was a blast!