Emojis are everywhere… stores, food, jewelry, clothes, commercials and even in the classroom. There are probably many more places I’m missed. My students even got into the Emoji craze at the end of the school year and were getting lots of cute emojis in their Mc Donald’s Happy Meals.
Idea One- Classroom Decor
In a recent magazine in the mail I noticed Creative Teaching Press has some fun emoji classroom decor for the classroom. (in above photo)
Idea Two- Guess The Book
I want to start out by sending you to a fun Guess the Children’s Book using Emojis I think you will enjoy it. If you don’t have time to check it out now be sure to bookmark it and come back later.
Idea Three- Emojione
Have you seen the site Emojione.com ? It’s packed full with all Emoji icons to use. You can even install a Google Chrome extension app keyboard to put Emojis in all your typing!! That’s what I used to add emojis to this post.
Idea Four- Make an Emoji Pic Collage.
So what can you do with Emojis in your classroom??? Students totally love having fun with Emojis.
I love using Pic Collage EDU in the classroom. It is FREE. (I always go to the settings and turn off allow web search so I don’t get any inappropriate photos.) Pic Collage Kids has so many options. Projects from students are always amazing and so creative.
Step One
Students take a photo of themselves using the normal camera or twist it up a bit and use the iPad Photo Booth app, Snapchat, or MSQRD app to make a fun different face photo. I like using the black and white filter so the colored EMOJIS pop on the page.
Step Two
Make a collage and talk about it with friends. It’s a great back to school get to know each other activity. You could also have them type out or write out things to explain their collage to the class. Each emoji is added as text to the collage.
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Idea Five- Emoji Items
Emoji Writing Dice
🐸 Last I created a Fun Emoji Writing Dice Set to use in the classroom especially for World Emoji Day. All you do is print and add dice. It could be used as a whole class writing activity where everyone writes about the same thing. Have all girls write about something and boys write about something else. 😜 Have 1/2 the class write about something the other 1/2 the class writes about something else.
❤😀It also is a simple writing station. Print the prompts and writing paper and add a dice. Kids roll the dice and begin to write. It even comes with a simple grading rubric for students to grade themselves and teachers put their score on it too.👊
