Math Notebooks!

I am presenting at my school systems summer professional development conference. I will be talking about how to use math notebooks with the math series we use. I am pretty sure I had lost my mind when I applied to present. I really didn't think that they would ask me to present but here I am getting ready for the big day. I am a nervous wreck thinking about having to talk in front of all those teachers!!!!! My presenting partner and I have been working hard on all our foldables and activities that we are going to present and send home with those teachers who come to our presentation. I am done with the first unit and I thought I would share it on here and get some HONEST (but not too mean feedback). Here are some pictures of what the notebook would look like. At the end is the first entire unit worth of foldables for FREE. Just download browse through it and then give me some feedback. I need to know if I need to make any changes before the end of July.

Don't worry when you print your tree will be green and brown..I was running low on color ink!

CLICK HERE for your own copy of this 35 page item for FREE....Enjoy.
Oh yeah we use Envision Math Series
 

 

Another Milestone Already!

I can't believe I have over 100 followers. I am not even done with my giveaway for 50 followers and I am at 100. This is just crazy to me. I am so excited and I told my husband and he was not as excited as I was but hey...he is not a teacher so I will forgive him. 

I have been seeing these FLASH sales and freebies all over the blogs lately. Well I thought I would join the party. I am going to have my S'more fraction item for FREE, yes I said FREE on my blog until Sunday night at midnight. CLICK HERE to get it. I am offering this on MY blog only and I am only advertising it here on this post only! So if you teach fractions then go ahead and grab it. 

Thank you for everyone who took part in my flash FREEBIE. The link has been closed. Hope everyone enjoys their item they downloaded. 

HUGE thank you to everyone one who has helped me reach this milestone. I can't believe how much my blog has grown over the past couple months. I can't wait to see what the future brings for myself and my blog!
 
 

FREEBIE

 needed new binder covers for my binders that hold all my pacing guides, curriculum guides and standards for each subject I teach. I thought why not share them with everyone! Here they are. Each cover comes with a sheet for the spin of the binder.

Click the picture to get your copy! Would love some feedback.
Huge thank you to everyone who has joined in on my giveaway so far and those who have linked up their blog to my blogs page. I promise I will get to each and every blog that gets linked up.

Bubbles Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere

BUBBLE GUM EXPERIMENT

In my class about a month ago we did an experiment to help us understand the scientific method. Here is what we did along with the documents we filled out.

I don't know about you but when I was young I LOVED blowing bubbles with my gum. I thought this would be a great way to help my students learn the different steps of the scientific method. I bought three different brands of gum (Hubba Bubba, Orbit and Bubble Yum). Then I had to spend a whole science lesson teaching my students how to blow bubbles. This was something I had not planned on doing but oh well. 

 2nd Day: My students were given one piece of each brand of gum. They were to pick one piece and start chewing the gum. Once they were ready they were to blow a bubble. Each student had a partner that was to measure the bubble with a ruler. Once a bubble was measured the partner got a turn to blow a bubble. Students were to record their data on their paper. 

3rd Day: This day is when we took all of our data and made a graph to show which brand of gun made the best bubbles. We filled this graph out together as a class. Students were also responsible for answering the questions about the graph. 

Here are the printables for this experiment

I used a booklet about the scientific method that I found on TPT. Here is the link to that item. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scientific-Method-Experiments-Notebook-Bundle