Product Swap and Giveaway!

One of the best things about going to Vegas was getting to meet some of my blogging/TpT friends in real life!  We often collaborate and email each other and along the way become great friends.  One of the people that I got to meet this year in Vegas was Nichole who blogs at The Craft of Teaching.  You can find her store, The Craft of Teaching on TpT here.



While we were in Vegas we talked about a few of our products, and we decided to do a swap.  I tried out her Questions to Encourage Mathematical Thinking Posters, and she tried out my Math Journals for 5th grade.

For this swap, I am blogging about her product, she is blogging about mine, AND you have the opportunity to win them both along with a $10 TpT card! 

Do you ever find yourself struggling to ask students just the right math questions to get them thinking WITHOUT giving them the answer or telling them how to solve it?  Nichole has solved that problem with her questions to encourage mathematical thinking product.

I absolutely love that she has included both the posters for the wall and the small task card size ones!

I have the posters hanging on the wall that I can point to while teaching lessons, and I keep a set with me as I conference with students and work in small groups.  I have also given them to my students to help them coach each other. 

After using them for a few weeks, I have been amazed at how my students have started automatically using these questions not only with each other, but also in their written and verbal responses.  They are now saying things like "I know my answer makes sense because.." or "I solved this problem a different way by ..."

 

If you would like to try out this product for yourself, you can find it here, or enter to win using the Rafflecoptor below.  We are selecting two winners! 

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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?