Floorplanner App from Google Docs-5th Grade
Ms. Blanco's 5th grade students are doing a Dream Room project, as a part of the project they have to research, purchase items, and build a scale rendering of a Dream Room. Students are using Google Docs to create the spreadsheet of purchases for their room, a Google doc to show pictures of their purchases, and Floorplanner to build a scale model of their room.
Students have been using a math program at Woodbury called ST Math or JiJi Math. ST Math is a supplemental online learning program. ST Math emphasizes visual models as a means for deepening conceptual understanding. This week third grade started using it for the first time.
This week 4th grade have been creating word clouds about their memories from 4th grade using a website called tagxedo. Students are using an image of their face as the shape of the word cloud and filling it in with keywords and phrases about 4th grade. Tagxedo is a free internet based program that generates word clouds. Word clouds are visual depictions of the content of the text you wish to represent. Tagxedo controls the emphasis of how your words will appear in the cloud.