Go Math is …

please insert adjective of your choice….

I am posting the answers for our homework tonight for two reasons:

1. to help the kids and the parents

2. to get blog world’s opinion about this _______ program (again please insert adjective of your choice)

{Please remember I teach 5th grade :) }

Our objective was Order of Operations and then some Spiral Review of some of the past 11 lessons in Chapter 1… yes you may need to reread that sentence.

Below is our homework …it is 9:30 here and as I was studying for our lesson tomorrow I thought well Duh!  That’s how parents can know what’s going on silly…. BLOG ABOUT IT!  Sometimes it takes a while for the lightbulb to go off….

I took several pictures so the problems would be clear:

the brackets are a little off and l--->r means read left to right

Back of Assignment

Have a Great Week Teaching!

Fun Writing Activity

Are you like me and are looking for some fun ways to incorporate Halloween/Fall Goodness in your curriculum?  I started a bulletin board that says We’re so “Spook”tacular its Scary. Kinda had a nice ring to it, but then I was stuck!  haha I’ve done “spook”tacular work, Have a “Spook”tacular Halloween, etc. but always had lower elementary cuteness to go with it. So I brainstormed, and I pulled out a oldie, but goodie from my college creative arts class. It’s a progressive drawing. If you are not familiar with this is, it is pretty neat. The hardest part is making sure the paper is folded correctly.Group kids into threes and give each kid needs one sheet of paper. Do a trifold so that it looks like an accordion. There are three rotations. We decided to draw monsters in relation to the bulletin board.

First the kids draw their own heads:

then fold the head back and rotate papers clockwise and everybody draws the bodies next:

then fold the body back and rotate the last time and draw the feet:

Then rotate it back to the original owners and Viola!  You have a monster. The hubs and I did an example for the kids…

           

We have laughed and laughed at ourselves…go ahead laugh with us!

 

 

 

 

 

I gave the kids 5 min. on each section. After they completed the drawings they wrote silly stories using their spelling words to go along with their “Spook”tacular Monsters.

I will post pictures of the bulletin board and the kids monsters tomorrow!

Happy Teaching!

I WON!

I won over at What the Teacher Wants!  What an awesome ending to a not so great day.  I can’t wait to use this in my classroom.  We are starting a Native American Unit, two digit multiplication, and on Unit 2 in Reading Street!  Stay tuned tomorrow for a reading street freebie!

Happy Teaching!

Science Week

It seems to be science week here in blog land….I just wanted to share a few things we are doing in science and having an AWESOME time:

first we started out with a gummy bear experiment from Teachers pay Teacher to introduce the scientific method: We placed a regular size gummy bear in a cup of water overnight and the results were amazing! the kids loved it!  I don’t have any pictures from our science notebooks I will try to take some tomorrow.

        

Next we started our AMSTI investigation unit: Variables

We started out doing swingers, then lifeboats, and now flyers:

happy investigating!

I Think I Can Do Better

I feel like I am not doing my students fair justice throughout the day.  I feel like there is a lot of downtime and that when my students are reading silently they are just pretending.  I am hoping to get more motivated and implement some better programs and centers for unit two of our reading series.  What do yall do for reading centers or stations?

How do you motivate students to read for real?

What is your dicipline plan?  I am using a clipy chart but im not real consistent in moving the kids up … just down….

I just need some ideas… suggestions….anything!

weekend wrap up

Homecomings galore this past weekend!  Believe it or not it has been ten years since my senior homecoming game at my high school and six years since I was on the homecoming court at UNA. The hubs and I spent the weekend visiting with old friends and cleaning up the house for my sissy Baking Shower on Sunday!  Can we say jam packed weekend?  Oh yeah and my Brat Pack friend had her precious baby Evan too!  Great weekend that hopefully will run into a great week at school.

this was senior citizens day during homecoming….I prefer a theme so I titled it Knock em in the Nursing Home Day

this is me and little tonya.. my fantublous co-worker…this was crazy spirit day.  Our principals really wanted us to get into the spirit…one of them spray painted his hair red and they both wore crazy socks and a VERY spirited outfit….Every spirit day needs ribbons:

Several of my softball girls were on the court:

very proud of them and their accomplishments! After a long day of the parade and the pep rallly… I went to volleyball and then came home and got ready: thought that I would share this oh so cute belt!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday I met little miss Evan:

and went to the UNA gamethen in all of my spare time ahem..2:00 A.M.

I took my kitchen wall from this:

acutally another picture was hanging here but I didn’t have a picture of it

 

 

 

 

to this:

and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

sub tub link

The sub tub that I posted about during teacher week is from One Extra Degree.  Check it out…shes pretty awesome at organizing and putting her own spin on things.

Happy organizing

Laura