If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
Wordling our Way into the New School Year
In the ongoing efforts to get to know my 77 students, I decided to tap into Wordle to show some brainstorming we were doing around the things they are excited about and the things they worry about now that they are in sixth grade. This was a simple activity. I gave them a notecard, they drew a line down the center and on one side, they wrote what worries them and on the other, what excites them.
I then took their notes and put them into Wordle, using the Wordle Advanced option so that I could weigh responses, as there were many that were multiple student lists.
Just so you know, Quidditch is a game that we play at our school with sixth graders that culminates in a huge tournament in the Spring. (See our video about our game of Quidditch.)
Here are the things that excite them (I like that writing class was on many lists):

Here are the things that worry them:

Peace (in the new year),
Kevin
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