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Friday, August 23, 2013

First Week of School 2013-2014

Last week we had our meet and greet at school and I wanted to share the way I posted my wish list for parents. I printed wish list items on sticky notes and posted them on the board. That way parents could take a note if there was something they wanted to purchase. Click here for the template I used to print on the sticky notes.

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In math class I had the students create a Math About Me page. They drew a picture of their face and then used math to share things about themselves. Here are just a few of the pages.

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As a science assignment I had the students think about themselves as scientists. They had to draw a picture and write about what they were doing, wearing, tools they needed, and where they would be working. They turned out so cute! I have posted some of them in the hallway and I wanted to share two of them here.

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When I went to a conference this summer I discovered Facingmath.com. So I decided to do one of these with my math classes this week. They start with a blank circle and follow the directions to create a drawing.

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As they answer the math questions the image begins to develop. There are also questions that tell them what color to use for different things on the picture.

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My students said this was the most fun they had ever had with math! They loved it!

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As you can see, all the pictures will be the same (shapes and colors) but each artists makes the picture all their own. I think I loved these just as much as my students.

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We also had a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach (one of our class pets) shed his skin. We were lining up for lunch and someone spotted it. So I set up the ipad on the top of the aquarium and left it filming while we were at lunch so we didn't miss it.

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Here is the video of the event! Hope you enjoy.



STUDENTS: What was your favorite thing about 5th grade this week? What was just like you expected it to be and what was different?

8 comments:

  1. My favorite thing about 5th grade this week was the cat math face and watching your cockroach shed! It was cool and gross at the same time!
    Lexie S.

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  2. my favorite thing about 5th grade is the cat math face






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  3. My favorite thing was that we still have after school daycare and cat math face. p.s. meow.




    Michelle.B

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  4. My favorite thing was opening the lockers

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  5. My favorite thing this week was getting my locker open.I expected the first week of school to be more difficult.

    Haley.P

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  6. I lied getting a locker but didn't expect it to be so hard to open.
    Avery

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  7. Anonymous said...
    My favorite thing about 5th grade this week was.. opening my locker it was fun.

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  8. My fav. thing about 5th grade this week was opening my locker.

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