End of the year gifts!

So, again this year my teaching partner and I made these WORDLE gifts for our fourth graders as end of the year gifts.  

The original post with directions can be found here:

http://teachlakelove.blogspot.com/2012/06/going-away-presents.html

Originally, for the past two years until this year, we had mixed 3rd and 4th grade homerooms, so the 3rd graders would write down character traits about their fourth grade friends/classmates.  This year was a little bit different for me because my class was 4th grade only.  I came up with the words for each of them.  

*One trick that isn't included in the original post is how I went about it this year.  I typed their name about 12-15 times like before, and typed the words 3, 4, 5, or 6 times each.  After I finished a Wordle and printed it, I simply pushed the back button on the web browser and then the forward button.  ALL of the words you had typed are still there.  I changed the name and some of the words, but also kept some the same.  I also copied and pasted some of the different words (typed multiple times) into a Word document for easy access when I would need that set of words again.  I did ALL of the girls first, then did ALL of the boys next, making it easier to keep some of the words the same.  For example, I kept "sister" for all of the girls, and "brother" for all the boys, since none of my kids are only children.  :-)  

We bought the frames at the Dollar Tree and used bright colored scrapbook paper that I already had to back them.  

ENJOY!