Valentines day!

Like many teachers I was blessed with multiple presents from my students, some of which were carnations the high school classes were selling for a fundraiser, and with no vase in my room I had to improvise. One of the latest things on twitter right is #--this where you insert the description of you--problems
For example not having a vase in the room I would say #scienceteacherproblems
I believe this would be
#scienceteachersolutions

Measurement Humor

My students may go home and talk about MARY and RIC who aren't members of the class that knows each other and all 25 students very well, some of which have been in the same class since prek.
They will be talking about our new friends of the measurement system.... custoMARY and metRIC.
They are still undergoing "surgery" as I say and are an ongoing process but here are brief pictures from the beginning.

The baseball diamond will soon be on metRIC's stomach.
It stands for
King--kilo
Henry-- hecta
Drank-- deca
Base-- m, L, g
dark-- deci
chocolate-- centi
milk-- milli

I also told my students that getting to 3 (3rd base) is bigger than 1 (1st base) so Kilo is the biggest and goes to milli the smallest.

Here are some updated pictures...

The feet are 1 foot each and the legs are each 1 yard. I have thought about toes at an inch....

Science visuals!

As I have said before I love visuals! Here are a few more. Maybe one day I will organize the pictures on here in categories for easier access.

Math Word Problem Operation books!

So today in class we made books to tape word problems into.
Here are some pictures of the original I made....
There is a 2 with a step to represent two step problems, subtraction, addition, division, and multiplication symbol.
They seem to like the idea of this. We will see who actually uses them as references and how much they like it after a few weeks..... I plan on giving bellwork word problems that they can tape in on the appropriate symbol.

my new obsession.... jogtheweb.com.... A great resource NOT just forTEACHERS

Here is my recent creation for science for my kids to use.

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/Uk6RSj3tqesy/Ecosystems

There are many ways that jogtheweb.com can be used! I personally use it to organize websites to print things off, one stop spot to show someone multiple sites. This can be used for everyone not just in the classroom for teachers and students. It is a great site to just organize links (for recipes with cooking, DIY projects and websites you wish to purchase for one specific project) in one window without having too many tabs open. The options are endless for this site!

I haven't really viewed other jogs that have been posted in categories other than education but I imagine there is something for anyone and everything possible for all languages.

Enjoy and hopefully you can find a way to use this in your classroom, home, or place of work. : )