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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat it is:<\/span>\u00a0 Build Your Wild Self <\/a>is a website I heard about on A Geeky Momma’s blog<\/a> (which I thoroughly enjoy!).\u00a0 The site fits perfectly into my classroom this week as our Book Fair theme this year is “Safari”.\u00a0\u00a0 The site, created by the New York Zoos and Aquarium, lets students create a character called their “Wild Self”.\u00a0 Students can choose a character and then add crazy hair, arms, legs, etc. to make them wild. There are even fun sound effects for the different backgrounds they add!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n How to integrate Build Your Wild Self<\/a> into the classroom:\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 This would be a great site<\/a> to use with students after reading a book like “Where the Wild Things Are”.\u00a0 Students could create their own Wild Things and write themselves a Wild Things story featuring themselves.\u00a0 This is also a great site<\/a> to use with kindergarten and first grade students who are learning about different animals.\u00a0 As they build their Wild Self they can name what animal the crazy part belongs to.\u00a0 Older elementary students also enjoy working on this website<\/a>, my students created a wild self for their safari passports for our book fair this week and really enjoyed it from kindergarten through fifth grade. <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Tips:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 The Wild Self can be printed out, sent to a friend, or saved as a desktop. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Build Your Wild Self in your classroom.<\/strong> What it is:\u00a0 Build Your Wild Self is a website I heard about on A Geeky Momma’s blog (which I thoroughly enjoy!).\u00a0 The site fits perfectly into my classroom this week as our Book Fair theme this year is “Safari”.\u00a0\u00a0 The site, created by the New York Zoos and Aquarium, lets students create a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,4,7,8,6],"tags":[47,844,839,845,843,312,364,840,841,842],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games","category-language-arts","category-primary-elementary","category-secondary-elementary","category-websites","tag-animals","tag-aquarium","tag-build-your-wild-self","tag-character","tag-creatures","tag-fun","tag-tenkely","tag-wild-self","tag-wild-things","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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