4 pictures 1 word in the classroom

So I have seen many people posting on Facebook about these 4 pictures and saying help and not knowing what the heck it was really... I began to think how I could use this in the classroom with vocabulary and I'm not sure if I was asleep and dreaming or if it was one of those morning where I couldn't sleep and thought up this idea.

I finally decided to ask someone what the name of the game was and they told me that it was called four pictures one word. I downloaded the game from the App Store and started playing it. It was super fun and kind of addicting.... ha who would have thunk it... A game that is an app on the iPhone that's addicting.

Here is my first one I created (I am still working out details on how to separate te pictures and mine is more than 4 pictures and the answer is more than 1 word) using pic jointer which is also a free app from the apple app store and don't forget it is for fifth grade science... I plan on starting easy and this being kind of a bellwork idea possibly and after they figure out the word they think mine is from the four pictures they will have to create their own with different pictures but using the same vocabulary word.

I hope to have a few more up in the next few days and maybe better quality with actually 4 pictures and 1 word. This was just a quick one I thought up to get my mind rolling.

Hope you enjoy this and can maybe use this in your classroom.

Science/Reading correlation with Dr.Seuss book!

Watch our reading garden grow! With my partner teacher in reading my students listened to The Lorax being read to them. They then planted different seeds inside a plastic cup. They are going to compare and contrast the rate they are growing. Yay! Science tek in reading... Go Mrs. Jackson!
Later we talked about how the book actually has A LOT to do with science and the effects if change on animals and their environment and even the scientific method in the book!

Since we were learning about the CO2 cycle I thought it would be great to put our model CO2 cycle of respiration and photosynthesis around the reading bulletin board. Each student is going to add a petal to their stem each time they read and take an AR test on a book.


Up on the wall also was a song we learned. I got the last part if the song from another blog and then added the beginning and adapted it a little myself.

Here it is....
(We whisper) "RESPIRATION is when animals (breathe in big) absorb oxygen just like you (point to people) now let's conclude the cycle of CO2!
I soak up all the water
My roots are like a straw
I absorb CO2 the animals give it off
I hold out my leaves the sun gives me a kiss I make my own food it's photosynthesis!"

Enjoy : )

Songs, songs, and more songs

I taught my kids a song last week for transformations!
I got the idea from a fellow teacher of mine and elaborated on it... It's to the Cupid shuffle!
Tell your students to grab a partner.... (Some of mine chose a partner that was as close to congruent as possible.... I was one proud teacher!)
You can choose to tell them to grab a congruent partner if you'd like.
Here is the song!

Translate to the right, to the right, to the right (motion: slide to the right)
Translate to the left, to the left, to the left (motion: slide to the left)
Now reflect your partner, now reflect your partner (motion: put your arms out like a T and face your partner)
Now rotate by yourself, now rotate by yourself (motion: turn in place.... ((Explain to kids Like the earth rotating on its axis **science tek!**))
Down, down translate down
Down, down translate down (motion: twist down to floor/get low)
Do your transformations, do your transformations! (Motion: Let them be silly and free dance)
--second verse--
Translate to the right, to the right, to the right (motion: slide to the right)
Translate to the left, to the left, to the left (motion: slide to the left)
Now reflect your partner, now reflect your partner (motion: put your arms out like a T and face your partner)
Now rotate by yourself, now rotate by yourself (motion: turn in place)
Up, up translate up
Up, up translate up
(motion: jump and raise hands to the sky)
Do your transformations, do your transformations! (Motion: Let them be silly and free dance)


Next week I plan on teaching another song with my median, mode, range lesson! Here it is short and sweet!

Home on the RANGE where the deer and the antelope play
Where subtraction is neat
From greatest to least
And the skies are not cloudy all day!

This not only teaches them that range is greatest number - smallest number but hopefully is normal subtraction too that the bigger number is first!

Hope you and your students enjoy!

Dr. Seuss, Read Across America Day, Super Cool Science (and some math) Find!

I hit the jackpot around 2:30am when I couldn't sleep!
I found out that Dr.Seuss has stuff for math and TONS more for science!
There are some videos and full episodes of Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! On http://pbskids.org/video/

Below I copied all the math problems I fixed specifically for my class from another sites story problems ( http://www.mathstories.com/bookstories/Book_12_Dr_Seuss.htm )


I also found a neat prezi to show my kids this morning to introduce Dr. Seuss!
http://prezi.com/w6nomihkxqxw/drseuss/


Seussville ( http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorPlanningCalendar.php ) has activities for everything including neat programs like The Lorax Project
http://www.seussville.com/Educators/lorax_classroom/educatorlorax_discuss.php

There are so many neat science resources I had no idea about... I am considering the whole month of march doing a small lesson everyday to review and go along with my science curriculum! My kids LOVE The Magic School Bus and many times they have seen the same episodes year after year (not that they or I complain) I believe they will be intrigued for another cartoon/ books about science. These are the books that I am going to use as my intro (some of which are going to be VERY hard to find!) into lessons and reviewing.
http://www.librarything.com/series/The+Cat+in+the+Hat's+Learning+Library

Here are some more resources to use with The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorCITHLearningLibrary.php

Here are some lessons that have math activities also that I found!
http://lessons.atozteacherstuff.com/80/dr-seuss-activities/

Pictures to come!

Dr. Seuss Word Problems
1. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. You do not like them, so you say. "Have you tried 24 blueberry pancakes with 48 dollops of dream whip on top of 32 green eggs and 16 ham chunks altogether," I asked. If you round these to the nearest ten, how many things would you be eating?
2. The more things that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. If you read 25 pages in 45 minutes on Monday, 25 pages in 42 minutes on Tuesday, and 25 pages in 41 minutes on Wednesday, what is the time in minutes that you read in all 3 days?
If he continues this pattern, how many pages would he have read in the month of February?
3. Poor Mayzie had a daisy sprouting right out of her hair. It grew 3 inches each day. How many inches was this daisy in 2 weeks? In 3 weeks?
4. Congratulations! Today is your day! You're off to Great Places traveling at 160 miles in 4 hours. You're off and away! How many miles would you have traveled in an hour?
5. The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. It rained for 2 inches on Tuesday, 4 inches on Wednesday, 8 inches on Thursday, 16 inches the next day. So we sat in the house all those cold, cold, wet days. If this pattern continues how much will it rain on Sunday?
6. The Cat in the Hat wanted to show the kids tricks. He could hold up 12 cups, 2 bottles of milk, 3 pink cakes, 1 dozen books, 1 goldfish on a purple rake. He could hold 2 toy ships and 2 dozen toy men, and with his tail he could hold a red fan. How many items were The Cat in the Hat holding before he fell?
7. Deep within the woods I spied a pair of pale green pants with nobody in them!!!!!! I wasn't scared. But, yet, I stopped. For if I moved I would have completed a total distance of 200 feet around the square forest. How much would each side of the forest be in feet if all four sides were equal?
8. "Cause you never can tell what goes on down below! This pool might be bigger than you or I know!" If the pool is 16 feet wide and 24 feet long, what is the total perimeter in feet?
If they wanted to fill the pool that is 5 feet, how much water will they need to fill the pool?
9. Left foot, right foot feet! feet! feet! How many, many feet you meet. With 25 classmates and 2 teachers in your room, how many total feet are there?
10. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store." But our presents do. At Wal-Mart I spent $145.25 and at Toys R Us I spent $200.05. If I started with $500, how much money did I not spend?
11. My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise with great care." If my uncle burned 25 calories each mile he jogged, then how many total calories did he burn jogging 7 miles?
12. Fame had knocked on Mayzie's door. Now she had it all-and more. Piles of money, stacked in tens, but what is money without friends? If Mayzie gave Ralph a stack of 13 tens, Judy a stack of 24 tens, and Phil a stack of 33 tens, how much money (in dollars) did Mayzie give away?

I have a picture of my door for Dr. Seuss!

Straight haired Blonde Ms. Frizzle?

We are currently learning about ecosystems and biomes in my class and without even thing about it I wore a dress on Wednesday with leaves, brown tights and cheetah print shoes and headband. My students pointed out that I was dressed as my own ecosystem and even talked about how the leaves represented a tree (one child talked about habitat and we haven't even learned that yet!) as the producer, my shoes represented the consumer, and then proceeded to call me Ms. Frizzle. I was ecstatic, proud, and crazy just as Ms. Frizzle usually is in the videos with excitement!