Polling and Gathering Data

After visiting the Minnesota Zoo today, I decided to create a poll to find out what zoo animal is the most popular.  Creating the poll was quick and easy.  I'm not quite sure how I will use polleverywhere with my kindergarten students.  Maybe I could have a poll on my blog/website for my students families to respond to and then we can use the poll for a class discussion or lesson on reading information on graphs. Can't wait to see what animal is the most popular. I created a google form to ask my parents what Open House session they plan on attending. This will help me prepare for the correct number of parents. Mid-year, I usually send out an survey for parents to let me know how the year is going. The questions are regarding homework, activities, and communication. This year, I will create the survey in the google forms and see how that goes.

Study Tools

Tagxedo was fun and easy to use.  The best way I see myself using this tool in kindergarten is working on using adjectives to describe the theme we are learning about.  It might be a great way to end a unit, by brainstorming words that describe what we learned.  I believe this would have to be a whole group activity or one for the higher level thinking students in a small group or individually.   

 

 

I had so much fun creating a word cloud that I created on for each of my children with their favorite thing; Their Soccer Team

 

Ashley's Soccer Team - Blaine Blasters 

Kayla's Soccer Team - Blaine Scream

 

 For my second activity, I continued with the apple theme and created a Spicynode.  It was easy to create, but I'm not sure how I would use it in kindergarten yet.  Because most kindergarteners can't read or write independently in the fall (which is when I teach apples), I will have to do this as a whole group activity.  We will add one part each day after learning about apple parts, our senses and apples, apple food, and different types of apples.