Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.
Ahhhhh ... Sunday morning. All is good. I've got a quick little foldable to share with you today from our math journals. We're just finishing up our Measurement unit (we've covered measuring length, metric conversions and perimeter and area of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms). Our test is on Monday, so we spent Thursday and Friday in review. We made a 4-corner foldable to review the formulas for the area and perimeter of the different shapes we learned. (It was actually quite funny because as I started folding the paper under the Elmo, the kids got excited and asked if we were doing another cootie catcher ... they know me so well). Anyhow, it wasn't a cootie catcher (this time), but it was good for review. On the inside of each flap we found the area and perimeter of each shape (the students had to measure the dimensions of the shape they drew on the outside of each flap). That's about it ... I'm planning on breaking the "no more than one post per day" rule today, but I've got to get a few things (ok - more than a few things) done first ... stay tuned ... Happy Sunday!!! Interactive Math Journal Interactive Math Journal 2 Building Better Math Responses Math Concept Posters InLinkz.com
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142 speech topics for children that even their parents will enjoy helping them with! Good for middle school upwards.
Scaffold your instruction with these teaching scaffolding strategies to help bridge readiness and mastery for your elementary students!
Welcome back to another Favorite Pins Friday! I'm going to start making #5 a resource that I use in my classroom. A lot of them will be my own products since I do use them but also others. I'll also include a little blurb about how I use it. Here's a quick note! When you pin these images, make sure you are pinning them from the original source. I'm seeing a lot of these images on Pinterest that have been pinned directly from my blog. I love that y'all like my Favorite Pins Friday, but we need to give credit where credit is due. Thanks so much for doing this! I'm sure the original owner of the picture will appreciate it, too! All you have to do is click on the picture to view it in Pinterest. You should be able to pin it from there ;) SOURCE I'm sure I'm not the only one who has 5th graders who STILL don't capitalize the beginning of the sentence! With texting becoming so popular, I don't see this changing any time soon. I tried to point attention to this last year but it honestly got SO overwhelming. I'm going to make a chart similar to this and refer to it ALL-THE-TIME! Can I get an AMEN?!? SOURCE I've said this every year, but this year I'm going to do it! No one knows your students better than their own parents! On the first day of school, I'm going to send home a survey and a letter request. I want the parents to give me any information they think I should know about their child with a focus on reading and writing (since that's what I teach!). SOURCE This is a great way to get students thinking about characters in a story. I'm definitely going to use this with my character trait unit. Students always struggled with how to analyze character and this will get them started! SOURCE This year I'm wanting to really get my students writing about their reading. This will be a great chart for students to refer to when they have a free response prompt. Last but not least is my Close Reading Seat Work Bundle. If you want to get your students supporting their answer with evidence, then this pack is for you! It covers a range of reading standards, both literary and informational. The resources are equally split between literary and informational passages with high-interest photos and facts. Each passage is related to the season/time of the year. I used this this past year starting in January. I was a little scared at first. All I knew was that I didn't have time to spend 10-15 minutes a day on this. It literally takes 5-10 (max) minutes. It is ah-mazing and I plan on using it this coming school year from the first day of school. Here are some photos of my students using it. If you are interested in a closer look, I have taken three of the passages and compiled them into a FREEBIE in my TpT Store.
There are SO MANY fun methods for teaching area and perimeter that keep students active, moving, and engaged; here are my favorites.
I am SOOO excited to have this project finished! I have been working hard on getting my writing center put together and it's finally done! I've recently updated this! It has a new look and LOTS of additional templates and samples!!! This is available on Teacher's Pay Teachers for only $5.00!!! Everything you need to make a complete Writing Center as shown above (minus the tri-fold board). Writing Center Make a Writing Center! Everything you need to set up a center full of ideas and successful writing tools. I have made my center on a trifold project board so it will be portable, but this can also be used on walls, bulletin boards or placed in a Writing Notebook. Copies of "What Good Writers Do", "What Can I Write About?", Super Synonyms" and the alphabet chart are perfect to print for each student's writing journal/notebook. Everything (samples and titles) are sized to fit a Trifold display board. Trifold boards can be purchased at Walmart, Target, Michaels,or any other craft or office supply stores. This kit was made so you can pick and choose what fits your needs. Samples in this kit are differentiated for you to select the ones that best meet your grade level. There are two different titles to choose from and two sizes of titles to fit different sizes of tri-fold boards, bulletin boards, walls or binders. The larger titles are split onto several pages and will need to be cut and fit together. Ideas and photos for setting up your board are included in the download. The following items are also included: 1. Two titles to choose from (Each title in 2 different sizes) 2. Example Headings. Headings included are: Letter, Story, List, Card, Postcard, Poem, Recipe, Book. 3. “What Can I Write About?” Story Prompts 4. "Super Synonyms" Printable 5. “What Good Writers Do” Printable 6. Alphabet/Number Chart 7. Bonus Writing Checklists - Cut and handout to students during the editing process 8. *Two Card Samples 9. *Two Letter Samples 10. *Two List Samples 11. *Book Samples and Story Sample 12. *Two Postcard Samples 13. *Two Poem Samples 14. *Recipe Sample 15. Postcard Template (two per page) 16. List Template (two per page) 17. Card Template (three per page) 18. Two Story Templates 19. Two Letter Templates *This center includes printable samples/examples for each writing topic. Most samples have two versions to meet the needs of different grade levels. You can easily print the samples and post them on your board, or you could hand write your own samples so the students can see authentic writing. ** Update!** Just wanted to add an update to this post to mention that I have added two new versions of my Writing Center. While this original Writing Center continues to be my best seller, I just thought I would mention the additional choices :) Here are the two new writing centers, the original is below in this post. Click on the photos to see these items and read their descriptions/view previews at Teachers Pay Teachers. While you are at my store, check out some of my new and best selling products including: My Original Writing Center - My best selling product! CVC Clip The Sounds Print Your Own Teacher Subway ArtPerfect for Gifts! Don't Get "Frozen" - A Sight Words Card Game Read It, Build It, Write ItAll 220 Dolch Sight Words Included The "Blue Cat" Daily Five Posters Reader's Toolbox of Reading Strategies Marzano (Kid-Friendly) Rating Scales Polka Dot Behavior Clip Chart with Daily/Weekly Behavior Reports and Punch Cards Chevron Behavior Clip Chart with Daily/WeeklyBehavior Reports and Punch Cards Word Family HousesCVC and CCVC Words Included The Ultimate Writing Center: Chevron Sight Words Superhero: Everything You Need to Motivate and Reward Sight Word Recognition Sight Words Superhero Add-On Pack: 130 Pages of Sight Word Games and Activities! Mighty Minions Sight Words Card Game Mighty Minions Read It, Build It, Write It Author's Purpose Anchor Charts Letter AND Sound Picture Mats Interactive Word Wall Books The Scientific Method Posters and Activities Awesome Adjectives with "The Blue Cat" Check out these MONEY SAVING BUNDLES: And MUCH more - click here to see more great products! And, don't forget to follow my store to get a free kit each month!!! Past "Follower Freebies" include" Click here to see how to get free kits each month: Mrs. Gilchrist's Follower Freebies
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I love to start the year building classroom community with Peter H. Reynold’s books like The Dot and Ish. They are great read aloud books to begin a growth mindset activity. Both books are great for teaching kids that it is okay to take risks and make mistakes. Those books also go very well […]
Developing empathy in children has never been more fun than with this collection of 19 simple empathy activities for kids!
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The 3rd grade Common Core standards are pushing us to reach a deeper understanding of many topics. For example, area is covered in much more depth than our previous state standards specified. I've always done a "Dream House" project to help students learn area concepts, and this year I've adapted it to address the following standard: CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7d Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems. I started this project today and the students are o-b-s-e-s-s-e-d. It was so funny to watch as an idea for a room caught on throughout the class - by the end of class 22/29 of their dream houses included a "Trampoline Room". Haha. Kids are awesome. I'll show you the directions here, along with a picture of each step. At the bottom of the post you can find a link to download the project free at my Teachers Pay Teachers store. 1. Outline your dream house by drawing the outside walls. your dream house should be a compound figure with all right angles. 2. Partition your dream house into rooms. Each room must be a rectangle. As an extension, try making copies of your own outline and see how many different ways students can come up with to partition the same compound figure into rectangles! 3. Label and color each room. But, Ms. Turner, where do you sleep? Why, on a raft in the indoor pool, dahling! 4. Find and record the area of each room. My students used a full page of lined paper to do this, and then recorded their final answers in the space provided on the project page. 5. Add the area of all of your rooms to find the total area of your dream house. Later this week, (assuming the snow ever stops here in Massachusetts and we eventually get to return to school), they'll mount both pages on a big piece of construction paper and we'll display them out in the hallway. It makes for a fun bulletin board! I love this project because the kids LOVE it, and they are using math skills the whole time. I don't like to do a lot of fluffy projects, so this is great because even during the designing phase they are fully engaged in mathematical thinking. If you want to download a copy of the project pages, click here to grab it for free from my Teachers Pay Teachers store! Stay connected! Teachers Pay Teachers Store Facebook Teachers Notebook
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This fill in the blank activity covers the safe use of medicine. Topics include: following directions on the label, storage, taken medications from a trusted adult only, etc. A great follow up activity: What's in the Medicine Cabinet? Use this as a pre and/or post test activity to measure learning.
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So, I've been busy getting my beginning of the year science units together. I start the year off in science the same way I start everything else off--by teaching routines and expectations! We start science on the very first day of school! Day 1: What is Science? I ask the kids what they think "science" is and I record their answers on a chart paper. Be prepared for some pretty funny answers! Then I read What is Science by Rebecca Kai Dotlich. I love this book--it is colorful and fun and really gets kids thinking about science and the world in general! Then, with their minds buzzing with possiblities, we add more ideas to our list. Then I introduce our science notebooks. I tell the kids that these are very special notebooks that will help us ask questions about science; make predictions; record observations and data about investigations; and explain their thinking about what they have learned. I hand out the Science Notebook Expectations and we go over them one by one. Then I show the kids how to glue the expectations in their notebooks--focusing on how to turn one page at a time and how to use glue appropriately...
Montessori Preschool at Home If you’ve made the decision to keep your little one at home but don’t want them to miss out on what others their age might be learning in preschool you may want to incorporate some of the ideas I’ll be sharing here. This post is part of a multipart series covering…
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This post is packed with some of the best classroom anchor charts. These anchor charts cover several reading comprehension and writing topics.
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Close reading in science class? This post shares strategies and a free resource for implementing close reading in science instruction.
Extremely important essay form that lays the groundwork for persuading others to see your side. Students will be asked to write this essay type (also known as a persuasive essay) from grade school through college, and definitely on standardized tests. Beyond school, much of a career can be spent debating points to persuade your peers, coworkers, colleagues, customers, vendors, constituents, etc. Which is why the skill is important enough to be tested nationwide. Great for school, these 6 laminated reference pages can last to support the process of persuasion for a lifetime. 6-page laminated guide includes: Understanding Argument & the Writing process Logic in Argument Six Evidences of a Good Argument Types of Arguments What an Argument Requires Arguable Issues Reading Argumentative Materials Writing Your Own Argument Critical Thinking Prompts Purpose & Parts of an Argument Types of Claims Types of Evidence Types of Fallacies Questions for Reading/Writing an Argument Writing the Argumentative Essay Understanding the Audience Research Model Essay Outline Sample Essay
This book critically explores urgent questions that researchers, educators, and policy makers need to consider and address in order to better our understanding and capacity to transform education. Focusing on areas that underpin the empirical, theoretical, and strategic research of the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) International Research Network, it discusses the following topics: the nature of educational praxis; research approaches that facilitate praxis and praxis development; changing cultural, social, political and material conditions affecting the educational practices of teachers; and how good professional practice in teaching, leading, and professional learning are understood and experienced. Presenting findings emerging from the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis research, the book raises new questions and offers new ways of thinking about the identified issues and themes in light of current educational concerns and the prevalence of neoliberal conditions being experienced in educational settings around the globe. It provides supporting evidence and illustrative examples to help readers understand important concepts, situations, and concerns, and brings together intellectual and cultural-historical traditions that, when considered in relation to each other, open up critical opportunities and ideas orienting readers towards future educational transformation.
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Curriculum Area Grade 6 Ontario Math Curriculum Curriculm Expectations Covered by Product 1. develop the formulas for the area of a parallelogram (i.e., Area of parallelogram = base x height) and the area of a triangle [i.e., Area of triangle = (base x height) ÷ 2], using the area relationships among rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles 2. solve problems involving the calculation of the areas of triangles and the areas of parallelograms. Product Description The product includes: 1. A Powerpoint Presentation 2. Student Notes Version of Powerpoint This product is meant to be used as a visual aid when teaching Area. It will help the teacher organize their lesson/unit plans for this math strand and simultaneously help students to follow their teacher’s lessons by providing a visual reference to all the information. The resource will guide your students through the main topics that they need to learn to cover the curriculum expectations. Topics included are: 1. Finding the Area of a Square 2. FInding the Area of a Rectangle 3. Finding the Area of a Parallelogram 4. Finding the Area of a Triangle 5. Finding the Area of Irregular Polygons Related Products Probability Fractions Reminder Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase, you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you.
