This is a Father's Day gift idea that I used with my class this year. It might not be something that you want to do for your whole class, but you might want the idea for your family. I actually ended up having my grandchildren do one for their dads as well. Anyways, I thought I would share the idea with you in case you were looking for something different.I used the Wordle website to create the actual picture. Wordle is a website that allows you to enter words and then it mixes them up for you to create neat projects. Creating projects on Wordle may not be unique to you, but if it is you might want to check out the website when you get a chance. I like using it for word families and sight words.
When I first came up with this idea I realized that my problem was finding a way for my students to communicate to me the words that they wanted to use to describe their dads. I also wanted to provide them with a variety of choices/vocabulary. In order to accomplish this I created a page in which we were able to go through the words together and students were able to highlight the words that best described their dads. This was pretty fun. My students took this job very seriously.
Once I had the words I was able to enter them into the Wordle program and create the page. Students helped to choose the layout, font, and color. I then put the pages in a frame.
If you are interested in more complete instructions on how to do this project I have made them available along with the student pages as a "Freebie" on my TpT Store.
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