Geometry Flip Books & $25 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway!

My students have been loving our new geometry unit, thanks to some awesome resources from my TpT friends!  I have already shared about the geometry posters

and the geometry scoot game


that I used to begin our unit, and today I am sharing these awesome Geometry Flip Books from my friend, Lindsey from Miss Johnston's Journey!

I love how Lindsey has created a flip book that can essentially act as a text or resource for my students!  They also LOVE making flip books!

 

 

 

 

A completed flip book.

 

 

After our flipbooks were finished we had a mini-lesson on how to use them.

 

 

I asked them to look inside the flip book to find the answers to questions such as:

 

How many sides does a triangle have?

What is a right angle?

Is a rhombus a quadrilateral?

 

They loved it!  We finished up with a game of types of lines Simon Says. 

 

 

 

We have hand signals for

*point

*line

* line segment

* ray

 

We play just like Simon Says where I say, "Simon Says, show me a point, Simon Says, show me a ray. Show me a line."  They love being active and learning!

And now! Time for another giveaway! It is time for my monthly $25 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway! You can enter using the Rafflecoptor below!

And stay tuned next week for a really big giveaway as I celebrate my TpT milestone!

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Product Swap - 2D and 3D Geometric Shape Posters

Erin over at Learning to Be Awesome put together a fabulous product swap.

I was able to swap with Georgina of Teach and Tell Us.  I chose her 2D & 3 D Shape Posters because we are currently working on our geometry unit, and I thought they would fit in perfectly!




Here is a view of the posters I have displayed right now.  Sorry about the glare from the laminate!

 

I am putting up the shapes as we learn about them.  You could also just have them up as a display all year long if you preferred. 

I also love that they are in English and Spanish!  I don't have a large ELL population this year, but they will be great for that if I do in the future.  This year they were perfect because of a comment a student had made during our morning meeting.  We have a portion where the students tell me their concerns if they have any.  These are usually things such as the pencil sharpener isn't working or the water fountain is leaking, etc.  One day a student said, "I am concerned that we aren't learning Spanish."  He was so excited when he saw these posters hanging on the wall!  Now we are learning our geometric terms in English and Spanish!

 

My students absolutely loved their little faces.  When we started talking about what attributes the shapes had one of them said, "They have cute little faces!"  I have to agree!

 

 

 

Do you have geometric shapes on display in your classroom?

 

February Pinterest Pick 3 Linky

It is time for our monthly pick 3 party hosted by PAWSitively Teaching and Inspired Owl's Corner.

Here are three of the things that have caught my eye to use with my students during February:

 

 

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I love this Valentine's art project of radiating hearts.  I am going to have my students make Valentine's Cards for their parents with covers like these.

 

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My students always love Minute to Win it Games, and I think these games will be a hit for our Valentine's party.  I sometimes add a graphing component (of their results) to make it a bit more academic.

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My students love science, and this one looks like a great experiment!

 

 

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Stop, Swap, and Roll - Product Swap

I had so much fun swapping products the last time I participated that I was happy to join again with Melissa from Jungle Learners for her linky:

This time I swapped products with Gina Coniglio from Beach Sand and Lesson Plans.


I have been following her blog for at least a year now, so I knew she would have something amazing to choose from!  Because we are just starting our geometry unit, I decided to try out her Geometry Scoot Game. I have used some of her other scoot games, so I knew this one would be a hit with my students as well.

 

As I did geometry unit lesson planning, I decided that I would put this to use twice - as a pre and post test.  This week we did the pre-test  as an around the room activity.  I taped the pieces around the room for the students to find.

 

Then  the students walked around the room finding cards and writing their answers on their sheets.

 

I love how her scoot games get kids up and moving as they learn!

After we finished the pre-test I asked the students to tell me which problems they had the most difficulty with and we sorted them into categories.

 

In addition to the movement of this activity, I love that I was able to differentiate my math groups with it.  The set covers the CCSS standards for 3-5th grade, so even my highs were challenged with this one.  I hate when you give a pre-test and the high achievers in your class score a 100% before you even begin the unit.  With this activity, my high achievers realized they had some learning to do!  "Who would have known that there was more than one kind of triangle?" One of them said as we debriefed!  LOL!

Would you like to try Gina's Geometry Scoot?  You can enter to win below.  She is also having a 10% off sale on all of her scoot games this weekend, so head over and check them out!

Also, be sure to visit Gina's blog where she is reviewing my Dear Mrs. LaRue unit.

My Dear Mrs. LaRue Reading Packet is on sale this weekend!

Be sure to visit all of the other blogs who participated in the swap below for great ideas and inspiration!  I am a visual person, so I love seeing the products in action!

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Five For Friday January 30, 2015

Time for Five for Friday with Doodle Bugs Teaching!

This week started with a weekend birthday celebration for my youngest son, Luke.  He turned 9!!!  Where does the time go?  We started the celebration at school with a little cake.

The his friend spent the night and the next morning we hit the mall and his favorite restaurant, Dave & Busters.

One of the things he bought were these magnetic earrings (the only way mom would you allow him to have any earrings!).

He loves jumping at the mall on these trampoline harness things!  What a daredevil!

And in case you were wondering, those bottles are rootbeer!

We practiced some fractions during small groups.  We worked on the idea that when the numerator and denominator are the same or equal, the fraction is equal to 1 whole.

Because I taught 7th grade math before switching to Elementary, I know that students are often afraid of big numbers because they are big.  I don't want my students to be intimidated later on down the road, so we often use big numbers to show that the rule is still the same.

And while we are at it, why not throw in a few variables to make things interesting?

She was so proud to be doing algebra! No math anxieties here!

We started a new read aloud this week - The One and Only Ivan.  I absolutely LOVE this book and so do the students!

 

 

In science we modeled layers of earth caused by erosion by mixing different types of soil in water and letting them settle.

The most exciting part of our week was the fact that we were published!  I decided this year to try out Student Treasures for one of our writing units.  The students chose our Fairy Tales unit to publish as a class book.  The books arrived this week and I couldn't have been more pleased with them!  They were very high quality and the students are so proud!

How was your week?