Tool #5

  This was pretty cool.  I created a wordle titled "5th grade" and listed the many activities that 5th graders no longer experience once they move on to middle school.  I included recess, square dancing, birthday celebrations in class, class parties, walking in lines, etc.  I saved it, but can only find the link to share, not the actual wordle itself.

  <a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3839723/fifth_grade"
          title="Wordle: fifth grade"><img
          src="http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/3839723/fifth_grade"
          alt="Wordle: fifth grade"
          style="padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd"></a>

From there I went to ABCya, which I was not familiar with.  The first thing I did was create basically another wordle.  What I really loved was that I noticed on the bottom that you could choose a grade level for specific activities.  I chose 5th grade since I taught that last year.  From there, I chose Cup Stack Typing.  It gives a picture of a bunch of stacked cups with letters on them and you are supposed to type the letters you see, when they are lit up in black.  Each letter you type lights up another one.  It continues for about a minute and then gives you a score.  This would be excellent keyboard practice!