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Friday, August 31, 2012

Week 2



Ever done the Sid Shuffle? We tried it during a brain break and the kids loved it. They were asking to do it again all week! You can see them below learning the dance.

Sid Shuffle

We make longitude and latitude cookies this week. The kids used plain cookies and used two different colored icing to add lines of longitude and latitude to create a globe.

Longitude & Latitude Cookies

I also taught the students a new game this week. We used a 10 sided die (0-9) and a place value. They took turns rolling and placing numbers on the chart. During the first round the goal was to make the largest number. During the second round they tried to make the smallest number.

Biggest number game

We also played Make 100 on the Smartboard. We played girls vs. boys. The girls won the first game and the boys won the second game. They took turns rolling the number cube on the Smartboard. The player decides if the number will be used as is or multiplied by 10. The goal is to make 100 without going over and each team must roll 9 times.

Make 100

At the end of the week we used the iPad to research a blue moon. Tonight we will have a blue moon so I wanted the kids to know what that means. After they researched it, they posted what they found out on Edmodo. The students with correct answers earned the Blue Moon badge!

Blue moon

STUDENTS: Today we learned about a blue moon. You should know that it has nothing to do with the color of the moon. We also talked about what it means when you say something happens "once every blue moon." So tell me something that happens to you once every blue moon to earn a ticket for the good job jar.

19 comments:

  1. I love the brain break Sid shuffle! I'm sure your students loved it, too! I'd also like to invite you to my new linky called "Fun Friday". It is all about the fun things we do in our classrooms. I'd love for you to stop by and link up (even if it is not on Friday).

    Kelly
    Teaching Fourth

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  2. How fun is that Sid shuffle! My students would love it! Do you know how to show a YouTube video in your class when your school blocks YouTube? Love the latitude and longitude cookies, great idea! We used yarn and created a human globe. Also, love the idea of the kids researching the blue moon, and then earning a blue moon badge. Love all your fabulous ideas!

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  3. Mrs. Shepherd,

    Try this site: http://viewpure.com/
    You can enter the site for the youtube video and it only shows the video, none of the clutter or other things around it. I'm not sure if it will block this as well but it is worth a try.

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  4. I love fireworks, but we only get to buy them once every blue moon.

    Brady

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  5. I get a report at school once in a blue moon. Maybe it is more often, but I wish it happenned less often. I will try to work on it.

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  6. My glasses fall in the lake, because they just did yesterday. :(

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  7. my family goes bowling every once in a blue moon

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  8. My family goes to a family Reunion once in a blue moon

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  9. Love, love all these ideas! Can't wait to try them out! Thanks so very much for sharing! What a fun week your students had in your classroom!! What an amazing year they have in store for them, I am sure! :)

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  10. Once every blue moon we go to Disney World

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  11. Thank you so much for making 5th grade so enjoyable for Ryan! He's having a blast!
    Wendy Lawler

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  12. My glasses will fall in the lake once in a blue moon. (and they did!)

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  13. I didn't get to go to New Orleans,LA because there was a hurricane and flooding. I hope you guys had fun on Friday.

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  14. I love the Sid Shuffle!!!!

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  15. Matthew said......I take a nap once in a blue moon!

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  16. We do nothing every Blue Moon
    Bella

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  17. I don't do any thing in a blue moon

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  18. Mrs. White...love all your wonderful ideas! Thanks so much for sharing! We made your latitude/longitude cookies yesterday, and had a great time. What a fun activity to reinforce and reward a week of study! Just before doing the cookies, we did a quick review with a fast-paced game of Simon Says where the students used their arms to show lat. and long. It was a fun way to end our week...thanks for ALL you do!!

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  19. Jody,
    I'm glad you were able to do the cookies with your kids. We are going to use chocolate chip cookies to be paleontologists this coming week to go along with our SS lesson from the end of this last week. I'm happy to share and glad to know there are people out there following me and using the ideas I share here.
    ~Michelle

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Thank you for your comments. Students, make sure to answer the question of the week to earn your ticket for the good job jar. If you have trouble posting your comment just e-mail it to me and I'll post it for you.