Hi everyone, here’s something new for you to try. I’m calling this a Tower Block card, I saw an image on Pinterest by thefoldfactory.com, It’s a brochure, but the style caught my …
Projects that give new life to something old are always inspiring. Old doors can be made into beautiful pergolas or arbors for garden entryways.
Yes, I know it is late in the year, but my little ones are still struggling to know what and when to capitalize something. I found this example of a capitalization anchor chart at First Grade Fresh and decided to make one on the computer (since I am NOT an artist of even the basic kind--that is my little sister's job). Here is what I came up with: Click here to get your copy. Enjoy!
Hello my dear friends! I'm stopping by to share a little something I've made for my students... And I hope it's something your students can use as well! This past summer I read Notice and Note: Strate
These Tie Fighter floating shelves are the perfect addition to any Star Wars lovers room! Below I will walk you through the process of how to make them yo…
Glenda Slann on facebook recently posted a picture of an ingenious pen loop, one made of a binder clip and leather, something i’ve been thinking of for a long time. I just couldn't figure out how to do it. Seeing the pic I figured it out. Here are instructions on how to make your own.
After poking around on Pinterest for a while, I saw a post that lead me to DIY Confession’s blog. It was there that I saw a home made recipe to get rid of hard water/calcium buildup. The town…
Starting a travel blog is the best decision I've ever made. It's funded 11 years of travel and changed my life. 2024 is the best year to start
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These quick fabric corner bookmarks can be made from fabric scraps, take no time at all and would be great paired with a book or bookstore gift card!
Yoga is all about practice and perseverence. If you don't know how to go about it, here are the 20 things to do before yoga. Take a look and get started!
I love making friendship bracelets, whether they are done with macrame, braiding, or something else. This first tutorial is a bracelet I made with little silver rose beads and navy blue hemp. Just add beads to both outside strands as you make the bracelet. Make sure that there are the same number of knots between each set of beads. BTW, do you follow my DIY Jewelry Board on Pinterest? 1.
Discover Food.coms most pinned and popular recipes on Pinterest, from copycat restaurant recipes and diet-friendly dishes to easy desserts and lots of great-looking chicken dinners.
You are finally in bed after a long day and even though you planned to read, you are on your phone just scrolling through TikTok and Instagram. You just scroll, but then there is this video and something about it makes you stop. It catches your attention. You got HOOKED. Hooks can be a lot of di
Hello! Would you like to know how I join all the seams of my knitting and crochet? You would?! That's great. I hope the following instructions are clear enough, and that they help you. The invisible stitch I am using,...
It’s not really magic. It’s algebra but maths is rather magical, especially when designing (or even altering) patterns means it’s way more useful than you ever believed in high school. Sometimes the number of decreases (or increases) you want to do divides neatly into the number of rows you have available. And sometim
Earlier this week my awesome daughter in law asked if i would make her something. OF COURSE! She found a neat market bag on pinterest that I hadn't seen before.Made from mostly double crochet sts and two strands super bulky yarn, I knew it would whip up quickly. I ran to walmart that night so ...
For my adorable little baby nephew i actually made something that i pinned on Pinterest!! (shocking....i know). So, this adorable baby bib ...
"Fair Share or Equal Parts #2" is an activity package for kindergarten - 1st grade. The kids seem to love the first set I posted, so I've made more. Plus, I know that there are still teachers who are afforded color copies to print. So, I've included more color copies with corresponding blacklines...
It is always fun to change up the easel and so for a little change, I created a sticky easel for a little rainbow color exploration... I covered the easel with clear contact paper (sticky side out). To hold the contact paper
This week’s phrase is bound to come in handy if you see or hear about something that defies belief. Non ci posso credere! I can’t believe it! It is made up of the following components: Note that it is possible to move ci from its position between non and posso to the end of credere ... Read more
Have you ever wanted something that made it easier for your to be healthy, for you children to eat healthy? A machine that had more than one use? Using a nutribullet can do this! From making smoothies to home made baby food, to grinding oats into flour and making ice cream. There are quite a few uses it has!
I blame @bowmanimal for all of this. A few months ago he blogged about conceptualizing volume in calculus before formalizing. At the time, I had just started looking over past AP Calc exams, wondering how I was going introduce volume (solids with known cross sections and solids of revolution). Volume is a calculus topic I've not taught before, and I want my students to do more than memorize the formulas. Because, as our own textbook puts it so beautifully: "Some students try to learn calculus as if it were simply a collection of new formulas. This is unfortunate. If you reduce calculus to the memorization of differentiation and integration formulas, you will miss a great deal of understanding, self-confidence, and satisfaction."[1] Anyway, I tucked Bowman's post in my "Summer Projects" folder, and, well, it's summer now, so I thought I'd best get on with it. Solids with Known Cross Sections Here's what came out of solids with known cross sections: So pretty! The idea is a type of think-pair-share activity where students conceptualize what's going on before throwing the actual mathematical definition at them.[2] I love this because these visuals get glued to your brain. Now when kids see: Find the volume of the solid whose base is the region bounded by y=x^2, y=0, and x=1 and whose cross sections are semicircles perpendicular to the x-axis. They're less likely to throw in the towel because of all the scary words and more likely to remember that green tornado-looking thing. I hope the conversation that goes on in their darling little heads is, "Need to add an infinite number of infinitesimally thin semicircles...no prob...I've got the tool for infinite sums, an integral, baby! Thanks, Uncle Leibniz!" Bowman shares some great tips for constructing these solids (be sure to read his responses in the comments section, too), but I thought I'd add some hints that helped me, if you want to make these as well: I could not, for the life of me, get my cross sections to stand using tabs, so I resorted to a hot glue gun, which worked marvelously. The cross sections seem pretty sturdy (my cat even tried to snuggle with one of them, and it endured her voracious nuzzling, so I think they might just last a few years...cross your fingers). I splurged and got Ghostline foam board because I'm both anal and a terrible free-hand artist. I did not trust myself to draw nice parabolas without it. They come in packs of two at Hobby Lobby for about $3.50. SQUARES ARE EVIL. Bowman mentioned they were floppy. Indeed, they are. I ended up only taking the squares from 0 to 0.7, instead of 0 to 1 like the other cross sections. This anti-symmetry was deeply depressing, but I couldn't get those darn squares to stay up once they reached a certain size. Le sigh. After students converse about what they've seen on the poster boards, I plan to explore this applet with them as well, so they can see a 2D visualization of the 3D object we've created. Solids of Revolution Since I was already on this volume kick, I started to wonder how I could create a visual that would help students understand the formulas for solids of revolution (taking a graph and rotating it about a given line). The answer? Foam sheets and a wooden skewer: The graph I chose was y=sin(x)+2.5 (from 0 to 2pi) because I wanted the finished product to look kind of a like a vase and I also wanted to maximize the amount of area available to me on my foam sheets (bought in a pack of 65...of which I used all but 2). And also because I wanted to show something other than a polynomial function. Again, I was pretty Type-A about this little project. The foam sheets were 2 mm thick, so I let 2 mm=1 unit and used a compass and my handy dandy graphing calculator to create circles of approximately the correct radii (overboard? Yeah...probably so...). The skewer was the best idea of this project because not only does it serve as a visual for the axis of rotation, but it was super easy to center all the little foam circles on it because of the imprint the compass had already made: 11 down, 52 to go... Again, instead of being scared of the weird words and sometimes weird, unhelpful figures that go along with rotation problems, I hope my students will think, "Just adding up a bunch of super thin (dx!) circles...gonna need pi*r^2 and an integral for that. Thanks again, Uncle."[3] And here is a fantastic Geogebra interactive worksheet we can explore as well. I hope my students gain a great deal from these two summer projects. I know I was really thrilled by the mathematics that was being exposed while constructing them. For example, with known cross sections, decreasing the base by the same amount each time did not create even gaps between cross sections since the rate of change is smaller as we get closer to (differentiable) mins and maxs. I had a similar struggle with the vase: the closer I got to a min or max, the harder it was to get the right radius because the radii were changing so slowly. Update The next year I had my kids make their own solids. See post here. [1] Larson and Edwards, Calculus of a Single Variable 9th ed., p. 42. [2] Anytime I can use the phrase, "There are no right or wrong answers here," I know it's a good activity. [3] In the words of Steven Strogatz, "Infinity to the rescue!"
First off, I wanted to apologize for being so absent lately. I've been so busy. I feel so guilty for not being here. :( Today I am sitting...
So, what WERE we doing in this picture? Ah.. yes.. the "days of creation" book to go with the song! When I was a kid my Mom taught me the days of creation to the tune of the 12 days of Christmas. So, while we worked on the book we sang the song. I also wanted to put real Bible verses in it as well so I could just read it to them and talk about it. It goes like this -- "On the first day of creation our God did create, the Light and it was good...." "On the second day of creation our God did create, the Atmosphere and the light and it was good." (note, we used to sing "water and sky" but after looking at this more closely God didn't actually create water and sky he separated the waters to create an expanse that he called "heaven".. right.. so I opted for going with "atmosphere" and having the real text in the book as well and we can talk about it. Otherwise.. it's confusing that he'd be hovering over the waters before the world was made and then create the waters on the second day.. no.. he created the heavens. Anyway, back to the song.) "On the third day of creation our God did create Land, Plants, and Trees - the Atmosphere - and the Light and it was good." "On the fourth day of creation our God did create - Sun, Moon, and Stars - Land, Plants, and Trees - the Atmosphere - and the Light and it was good." "On the fifth day of creation our God did create - FISHES and BIRDS - Sun, Moon, and Stars - Land, Plants, and Trees - the Atmosphere - and the Light and it was good." "On the sixth day of creation our God did create - Animals and People - FISHES and BIRDS - Sun, Moon, and Stars - Land, Plants, and Trees - the Atmosphere - and the Light and it was good." "On the seventh day of creation our God did create - The Sabbath and He Rested - Animals and People - FISHES and BIRDS - Sun, Moon, and Stars - Land, Plants, and Trees - the Atmosphere - and the Light and it was good." I thought of changing it to "on the seventh day of creation our God did create NOTHING and he rested.." but.. I left it the way it was. Oh, and if you are like me and are wondering if "rested" is a word.. it's actually the word used in the Bible translation that I have.. so I left that too. Not sure about "Fishes" but that seems to flow in the song best. :} Here's a video of how I sing it. It would be nice to add some tabs on the edges of the board book for each day so it would be easier to flip back and forth, but.. it works. I can't find my packing tape to finish sealing it all for durability. If you are planning on making your own you could use just thick white paper or file folders, and let the kids draw a picture for each thing God created. We drew some and used stickers some and tore paper some and painted on some. The last page I drew myself because I couldn't think of an easy way for them to do the illustration that could get the point across.. you could do a picture of a church or something for it, but I wanted to do the globe and resting hands because I thought that got the point across the best. Lily is singing this with me. Renna was asleep at the time... Next thing I'm going to do with them is print out these http://www.parentcompany.com/little_talkers/creation/cb-creation.htm coloring pages and work more on the letter sounds. Every letter sound that they use in this is quite good .. like short vowel sounds and a hard "G" instead of soft g sound. The only two that they made a little confusing are the "Y" and "U" pages.. but they are easily switched. I'm going to type these new verses and paste them onto the pages. In case anyone wants to do the same this is what I came up with to go along with what they had. "Y is for the Yellow Sun, with the moon and the stars: The Universe of planets, like Earth and like Mars" And "U is for Us, made in the image of God. Specially created with a soul to love God." They had the "Y" for "You" .. and the "U" for "Universe" .. the "U" needs to be a short U sound for beginners and the Y needed the "Yuh" sound so it wouldn't be confusing. Hence "Yellow" and "Us".... anyway, that might be a bit nitpicky if your kids already know a lot of the exceptions to the rules, but since Lily is just starting I didn't want to confuse her. Not too hard to switch them though! ------------------------------- So this morning I decided that I needed something on the back of the creation book because I wanted to be able to talk about who Jesus was and is with my girls more often. And.. really, what is the point of knowing what's in the Bible and history and about creation if we don't also know how it relates to Jesus? I don't want to raise my kids with just a bunch of head knowledge about facts and Bible trivia. I didn't do a picture I just wrote out a lot of John 1 on the back - soooo.. if you like this idea too, feel free to borrow this final page as well. :} John 1:1-4 and 14a and 29 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us... Jesus... "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:10 and 12-13 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him... But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh or the will of man, but of God.
