The Wonders Of Wixie and Snack Time

Wixie App Picture

In Math this week, we covered area and perimeter.  This can always be fun.  Today we used one of my favorite apps - WIXIE!

My kids have been counting around tiles in the hall to add perimeter.  We have used cheese-its to make a shape and find both perimeter and area.

For those that don't work with these terms everyday, perimeter is the distance around a shape.  Area is the square units inside of a shape.

When we were working with area, on the second problem- one of my kids figured out that you can multiply the height x width to find the area of the shape as long as the shape is a square or rectangle.  I was amazed that after only one problem he had figured this out.  So today my kids also learned a formula.


Wixie is a great app!  The app is free, but the subscription is through a company called Tech4Learning. As a teacher, I am able to set up accounts and passwords for my kids.  All of the work I push out to them, or that they create is stored in the cloud.  The kids are able to access Wixie on the computer, ipad, at home OR at school.  This is a great way to continue to bridge the home-school worlds.

In Wixie, my kids used the square shapes in the sticker box to create their own unique shape.  They then glued the shapes to the screen.  Next, they took the pencil and figured the area and perimeter of each shape.





My students enjoyed area and perimeter SO much they decided to get their snack involved.  We had some Cheeze-its.  A few kids built a shape on construction paper and took a picture.  Then they used an app we used earlier called Screen Chomp to import their picture.  Next, they took the tools on the app to figure out the area and perimeter of the shape.

We all enjoyed today so much!  We were able to show what we learned about in a fun way!