This week in the after school program tech club, we had the kids use "switch-a-roo zoo" where they were able to mess around a bid with creating an animal out of body parts of various existing animals. Once an animal was created, we wanted the kids to name the animal and write some interesting things about their animal.
Of course, we are talking about kindergartners and first graders; so while they were quickly able to come up with outlandish and whimsical animals, they aren't very good (most of them anyway) at things like forming words. Or spelling words. Or typing words. Or typing words into usable sentences. So the activity quickly became a troubleshooting triage when all fifteen students wanted help putting words on the page.
Next time, if this activity is to be repeated, we will not ask for full sentences, just a name for the animal and where it lives. Which is what we ended up doing anyway...
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