Order in the Library

Order in the Library is a great web game that will help students learn how to put books in order on a bookshelf. This game also allows for the student to print a certificate when they finish a section.

Lesson Plan ideas

Here are some of my favorite websites for lesson plan ideas:

Internet4Classrooms.com
ComputerLabActivities
TechKnowPark - for 5th graders

Word Clouds

This week with my fifth grade students I had the students pick their favorite book or a book recently read. They wrote the title of the book using a word processing program and a list of describing words about the book. We talked about if you write the word more than one time it will make it bigger not add the word a bunch of times on the word cloud. I suggested that they do this with their book title. We also talked about the tilde (~) and if you put this between words it will keep them together. They then pasted the words into a word cloud program. We used Wordle and ABC Ya! Word Clouds. This was a great project that the students seemed to really enjoy. We will be posting these in our library.

Word Cloud Programs

Wordle

ABC Ya! Word Clouds

Word It Out