Build Your Wild Self and Edmodo

Yesterday we started building our Edmodo profiles! We started by creating profile pictures on buildyourwildself.com.  

Build Your Wild Self is a site that lets you design yourself as a creature with different animal parts.  When you are through it lets your know what your name would be if you were all of those animals combined.  Pretty Cool!  

We learned how to take a screen shot of a picture and we also learned how to upload it to Edmodo.

Take a look at us in action!

New Sites and Apps

I hope your spring break is treating you well!  I have introduced a new site to the 4th graders: Sumdog! It is a very interactive math game site that will help them practice math concepts at their level.  Even better it is completely aligned to our curriculum but will also change its difficulty level based on what each child needs!  The students brought home their usernames and passwords in their assignment notebooks and are encouraged to show you the site at home!

In other great news, Edmodo, the site we use to showcase what we have been reading has launched an app section.  Currently they have a few apps accessible to us for free, and I have loaded them on to our site.  They are mainly math apps, but you can also access Scootpad from here now too.  Try them out!

Go to your edmodo account and click on this button:

to access the different apps on our account!

The One and Only Ivan

Recently we finished the story, The One and Only Ivan, as a whole class read aloud.  After reading the captivating story, the students were asked to continue the story in their own way on Edmodo.  Read to find out how each student would continue the story!