Prisms

 As we were studying prisms, vertices and sides, we made prisms with various sides made from pretzel sticks (you can use toothpicks) and mini marshmallows as the vertices.  We also read the book Shape Up. 

Multiplication towers

I got this idea from another teacher on her blog and LOVED it.  The students get the plastic cups out of the designated can and say the answer to the equation-their partner checks them and then it's their partners turn.  They stack the cups into a tower. I also made some division ones for students that are ready for that.

                                                           To make the game: Get a package of the little, white, plastic Solo cups 150 count.  I just used a permanent marker and made equations like shown in my pictures above.  You can use any container to store them in but I am collecting and using regular cans-the ones for soup, veggies, etc.  The woman that I got the idea from uses pringles cans with a lid. You could use the small or large ones.  I covered mine with cheap scrapbook paper from the dollar isle at Target.  Then I labeld the outside of the cup with the correct times table.

Making Circuits, etc.

My students are safely making a circuit.

Missouri Cookies

These are our Missouri cookies we make each year. The students get to use the different color icing to shade in the regions and the pull and peel twizzler for the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. M&M'S are used for the major cities and capitals. You can use skittles or other small candies if there are any allergies.

Jefferson City, Missouri

Coordinate Systems

I love using this homemade shower curtain coordinate plane for teaching corrdinate systems. I read the book Fly on the Ceiling. It is a cute book about Rene Decartes (creator of the coordinate system) and how he seems to loose everything. He sees a fly on the ceiling and it gives him an idea to draw a grid on the ceiling. He then decides to do this to keep track of all of his things and records their coordinates.

After we read it once, I hand out the laminated pictures from the book with velco on the back-also the plastic fly. I have then walk the coordinates so they know to do the x-axis first, then the y-axis. My students love this lesson!

C.A.F.E.

I have just ordered "The Cafe" and can't wait to try it in my class next year. I have some good summer reading ahead of me!

Just Getting Started!

I am so exicted to start a new blog-I've never done one, so we'll see how it goes!