The handwritten rhyme on the blackboard was set to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star" and is meant to help the children prepare for an attack.
printables for subtraction - the take away concept with printable interactive resources.
This mom had me in tears with her clever videos!
Thank you to Diane for submitting this fun book report poster. It’s legal size (paper) worksheet and is great for lower grades (or as an easy project for upper grades). Great end of the year …
Tables of 6, 7, 8 and 9 in Your Hands: At the age of 8 I had to learn the multiplying tables. I've never been good at memorizing lists or tables. It was easy to learn the tables from 1 to 5 but from 6 to 9 it seemed to be way more complicated... A year later I heard this t…
"Conic sections" are the four kinds of curves that result when a plane slices through a cone. But if you forgot that bit of high school algebra, here's one way to make sure you digest the lesson — this time, in a most delicious form: scones.
We gathered 18 of our favorite church memes for pastors because, let's be honest...we know you've seen things!
This year I wanted my geometry unit to be FUN so I packed it with hands-on exploration.
Free and Funny Workplace Ecard: This job is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received Raises, promotions and other signs of appreciation. Create and send your own custom Workplace ecard.
This mom had me in tears with her clever videos!
This FREE parallel lines cut by a transversal coloring activity doubles as a colorful reference poster or student notebook reference. Now includes a link to an interactive GOOGLE Slides version for online learning and teaching.
Okay, so what HAVEN’T we been up to?! We stay pretty busy in Kindergarten! So much so that I haven’t been very good about remembering to t...
When these construction projects were finished people had no clue why they ended up so hilarious.
Pass them on to your first grade teacher friends!
Tables of 6, 7, 8 and 9 in Your Hands: At the age of 8 I had to learn the multiplying tables. I've never been good at memorizing lists or tables. It was easy to learn the tables from 1 to 5 but from 6 to 9 it seemed to be way more complicated... A year later I heard this t…
Hello Everyone!! My apologies for not posting in a while. We have been so busy both at school and on the homefront. We had some major events to attend and my baby moved to Austin to start his first real job. Needless to say...emotional rollercoaster!!! At school we celebrated the 100th day of school, Valentines Day, and Presidents Day. All were a huge success. Here are a couple of pics! 100th day balloon launch!! Over the past couple of weeks we've been working so hard on our expository writing. We are writing an "All About Me" book with about 5 chapters. They are turning out so great!! I don't have pics yet, bu I will soon. This coming week we will begin our "How to Writing." We have a kind of hat theme going on for our open house, so I wanted to include a hat idea in our writing, so I've added a "How to Make a Newspaper Hat" component. I will show the kids how to make this fun little hat, and then let them get busy making their own and writing their "How To's." The unit I'm sharing today include templates, brainstorming sheets, and publishing ideas for a generic "How To" plus some specific "How To's" including "How To Eat An Oreo," and "How to Make a Newspaper Hat." For your own 40 page unit CLICK HERE! :) I am so excited to show the kids how they can teach someone how to do something! I know they will love the hats! I can't wait to show you some pics of them in the process. Till then, have a wonderfilled rest of the weekend! As always, thanks for stopping by and taking a peek through our window of wonder!! Don't forget to leave a comment!! Joyfully! Nancy
...egg puns, and egg fun here in my house in preparation for Easter. We had so much fun doing these egg science experiments for this months Science Saturday.
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image from icanreadI finally made it into school today and saw to my amazement that all of my furniture had been moved back in, the floors were waxed, and now all of those boxes were ready to be un…
Aaah I’ve been so busy with school lately, and I haven’t had the time to update or make new content ;A; , anyway here’s my contribution for @thebookoflovezine, Enjoy!
Aaah I’ve been so busy with school lately, and I haven’t had the time to update or make new content ;A; , anyway here’s my contribution for @thebookoflovezine, Enjoy!
I could say to the moon and maybe to the stars, and back. I could say Guatemala, but you already know I’ve returned home from there. I could say sick, but now I’m better, and yes, I had…
UPDATE! Barbie went to high school and can now do inverse trig functions with her zipline engineering! Geometry students found angles of depression using inverse trig functions and Pythagorean theorem to find the length of cable they needed! The handout and more photos can be found at the end of this post! Math and Science classes could have been sponsored by Mattel this year with all the Barbie involved! You can read about our super fun Barbie Bungee adventures here or over at my awesome partner science teacher's blog where we dropped Barbie from the top of the football stadium bleachers. After doing Barbie Bungee with our students this year for scatter plots, we leaked the plans that we would also be doing Barbie Zipline. Students had really been looking forward to this and as soon as they saw the unit divider for their notebooks was Pythagorean Theorem, they erupted with excitement and questions! The lesson started with this video to get them thinking about the criteria of what makes a zipline fun but safe. Most line, height, and speed! We reminded them that just like Barbie Bungee, we wanted to give Barbie a thrill without killing her! Students were also given a budget to work within to get their business started. After looking at all the ways other teachers have done this lesson, I liked how Andrew Stadel at Divisible by 3 did it so I used his plan to guide me...along with talking out every detail 47 times and adjusting throughout the day with my amazing co-teachers! Here is the handout for their notebooks where I combined all the things I stole found and changed it to a fun font! Students had to get their designs approved by our super awesome maintenance guy or amazing library media specialist. Our library media specialist gave them a tough time and even had some redesign their zipline before she would approve it! One group forgot to take their money with them to pay for the permit and she charged them interest by the minute while they {ran} to get the money! I love that the whole building was involved in their learning. We walked through the criteria together and they had to come up with three designs. One that would be instant, certain death for Barbie, one where Barbie may get stuck or lack a thrilling ride, and a ride just right where Barbie goes a safe, fun speed. Students worked hard on their designs and stood in line to get them approved! I gave them the height (leg) of the launch which was the catwalk at the cafeteria. They used the tiles on the cafeteria floor to measure where the zipline should be held (leg). The hypotenuse was the amount of cable needed and they had to calculate that as well. I let them have a walkthrough of the cafeteria to make any last minute adjustments to their design and that was Day 1. For Day 2, launch day, the science classes timed the Barbies going down the ziplines and calculated the speed for each group. We used feet for the design measurement so students could use the tiles but for the speed we had them convert to meters. It was awesome to see mathematicians launching their Barbies while the scientists collected the data below! I love when our powers combine! In the videos below, you can see the launch and the students timing and calculating below. I love everything about this lesson and the Pythagorean Theorem! I am so happy so many want to try this in their classrooms! Here is the link to the interactive notebook page I used. Please make it your own and let me know how it goes and how we can make it better! Yay math! Barbie Zipline for Interactive Notebook Barbie Zipline using inverse trig functions This post is part of the MTBoS Blaugust Festival of Mathematics Blogging! Click the photo to be taken to some amazing math bloggers!
First of the city crawls was on day 2 as we had a few hours to explore the city of Nuremburg; I say a few hours, that's true only if you're happy in getting up at 5am to do so! So up at 5 was exactly what I did and here're the photos of the city. This is our hotel, and those are our 2 coaches. Despite the construction appearance the hotel was fine despite one of the Americans feeling the need to walk around the place in his boxers. You know who you are! This is one of the outer walls to the old city. The city has a past that goes back to the 11th Century. At the silly hour we were out the city clubs were just closing and those that had partied all night were making their home, except for the ones that were in too bad a state to do so. Lets just say the pigeons were well fed and I don't love the smell of vomit in the morning. Being in the former Eastern Germany there was still a history of it's past adorning some of the buildings. This is the Weisser Turm or "White Tower". It's home to the White Family who have lived in there for 20 generations. This is the St Elizabeth church. I'm not sure if her surname was White. If so that family would have quite a monopoly on this side of town. This amazing fountain is called the Ehekarussell or "marriage carousel". Built around the start of the 80s the piece by Hans Sachs tells the story of the highs and lows of marriage through 6 scenes. This fountain is arguably the most popular tourist attraction in the city...much to Starbuck's dismay. Running east-west through the centre of the city is a river and crossing are various bridges made of different materials and each with their own history. That one in the distance is one of the wooden ones. More east germany stuff, not a vulture looking to feast on the clubbers who never made it home. That's the Max bridge, named after the Ernest Borgnine character in TV's Hart to Hart. Coincidentally there were two feuding families on either side of the river who had a big fight when the bridge was built. Rumour has it than when they met, it was moider! This is the city's Toy Museum. Not that exciting really unless toys excite you. The city is home to the largest toy fair in the world so this is definitely the city for you if toys rock your world...You paedo! The twin spired church is St Sebaldus. He's nothing more than the patron saint of Nuremburg. According to history he was a missionary and a hermit although I have no idea how that would work in practice? Perhaps he taught the word of God to those people who stumbled into his cave seeking shelter from the rain. One of the city main squares. There are several. I quite liked this style of architecture with the window extended out of the corner. I'm going to guess it's Gothic. The morning sun begins to rise lighting the main church. Hurrah for the camera so far for giving a false impression of how light it was. There aren't many fun rides in the city however I did come across this temporary slide installation. Unfortunately it wasn't open to the public and a bit too out-in-the-open to sneak a ride on. These buildings sit at the foot of the city castle in the Tiergarten area. Tilt Shifting a rather peculiar statue of a wabbit. another statue in the Tiergarten. This is Sir Goldamere who accidentally killed the last known German dragon when he accidentally trod on it. His visibility was obscured by a rather stupid helmet given to him by his wife. Patty Smith and Pennywise I've heard of but isn't "Shiny Gnomes" a great name for a band that's doomed to pale into insignificance? A quick check on tinternet revealed that they've actually been going for 25 years and are a well known band in the KrautRock scene. That up there is the castle, which in German is "berg". This means that the full name for this is Nuremburg Berg. Chris de Burgh wanted to play here but it would have been too much of a tongue twister. The castle's history goes back to year 1000 or so they say; there's no real proof. Looking back from the castle back down towards the hotel, way off in the distance. That's how far we'd strolled. Cute corner adornment. People were dangling their children from a height way before Michael Jackson ever did! I remember seeing similar artwork in Berlin. Must be a communist motif. and more East German imagery. Loving this architecture. More sunlight on the church. The rathaus is the city's council office. Every city in Germany has a rathaus and they're usually quite extravagant. This one was quite plain though. Contrary to those of us with limited German and who read everything in English this is not a building for rats...unless the officials are corrupt in which case it's appropriate. In another square that's the Frauenkirche or "Church of Our Lady". Those spikey adornments indicate the building is of Gothic architecture. Black make-up around the windows is typically a clue also. Classic Gothic Fountain in the square. During the Christmas season this square is home to a huge Christmas Fair. Whether this fountain is converted into a hoopla attraction isn't known. Now if you were having to jump out of a burning building you wouldn't want something like this under you. Strange fountain, which could also be turned into a fairground stall. This other big twin towered church is St Lorenz and this one is of Medieval/Gothic design although some of it had to be rebuilt following it's bombing during WW2. Lactating fountain. It's just water! The entrance to St Lorenz. Amazing. A little piece of London in another wise very German city. Women and children are to walk around the roadworks. Men, just walk on through it. Nuremburg Hauptbahnhof or Main train station is huge and can be found opposite the SE entrance to the old town. So if you're coming in by train this is where you'll arrive. This is the Opera House. Opposite the opera house is a little statue commemorating Richard Wagner, one of Germany's famous composers although he was born in Leipzig not Nuremburg. His most famous piece of music was probably flight of the Valkyries...and now you know why I made the vomit reference earlier on. Continuing into the former East Germany
