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. : )

A New Year! 2013! WOW!

I have been horrible about posting anything to my blog sinceschool started. I thought it would be a fun thing to discuss ideas I do in myclassroom but honestly don't know what I was thinking since I normally don'thave time for additional "activities" other than Aggie football,school, lesson planning, and visiting friends and family out of town.

On the first day of school I sent these home. Glow sticks are like the coolest and cheapest thing ever.... Especially to fifth graders!! $1 for a pack of 12 at Michaels!

Don't forget to tell them you're a teacher for an extra 10% off. Make sure you have an ID or pay stub to prove it though! 

This is what I decided to send home with my students on their birthday! Cheap crazy straws from target dollar section! I think they were $4 for a pack of 12....

Math visuals!

I am a very visual person which really shows in my science vocab posters. I have used my creativity to make posters for math as well and here are a few I have created!

Science Activities and Ideas!

Below are some activities we have done in science...."Help Save Fred" is below and can be googled to fit your grade level.

These pictures are from our mixtures and solutions activity in class!

These pictures are from our mixtures and solutions activity in class!


I love to draw and I must give credit where credit is due. Lee Anne Jones' cscope science workshop is where many of these vocabulary picture posters have come from but occasionally I have come up with some on my own. I also, in later lessons, had students provide input and create their own vocab poster and then we used ideas from each group to make one for the class.

Below is a picture of the candy cane experiment display we did before Christmas. I had 3rd grade with my 1st period and 2nd grade with my 2nd period. We talked about the scientific process, colors, experiments, mixtures, solutions, variables, and many other science topics that were all grade level appropriate. Once the younger grade left I gathered my fifth graders around the table and we talked about ways that we could unrobe on the experiment and control the variables better and more higher level thinking. I went in kinda going with the flow of just the scientific process and was able to tie in multiple topics flying by the seat of my pants. Many great things are created and done this way In my classroom. I'm pretty blessed with being able to think quickly for extra extension ideas when needed.

Here is one of my latest creations! I accidentally as we were writing water cycle vocab in our notebooks forgot to do transpiration. And it dawned on me that If I put in after all the other vocab words it wouldn't make as much sense so I quickly grabbed green paper and cut into fours passing out a square to each student. I then instructed them to draw a leaf big enough to put a definition on it. I thought about doing a tree but realized that was already in the vocab word as a visual and that since transpiration is moisture leaving a plant, for my own giggle I did a play on words using a leaf. I did this thinking I was funny and didn't really think fifth graders would pick up on the joke, but they did, and LOVED it! The second best thing was I addressed a READING tek in science!!!!!!!

I love to do all kinds of visuals for science and here is a vocab page from my science notebook and the following visual (it is a draft so far I will probably add a colored ecosystem picture at the top part of the "E") that I use to help my students understand.