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!
 
 

Fraction Graffiti Desks

As I was looking through Pinterest for probably the 1 millionth time I came across a pin about graffiti tables. I was instantly curious what this pin was all about.  After reading blogs and talking to fellow teachers I knew I just had to do a graffiti table. I quickly whipped one up and when I say quickly I mean it only took me 90 minutes. My students LOVED it. I was so excited that they were just as excited to use the graffiti table as I was when I found the idea. After seeing how much my students enjoyed it the wheels in my head started to turn. WHY not do graffiti desks? Well.... I took this idea and made it come to life with Fraction Review Graffiti Desks. Here is what one looks like.

It is a piece of paper cut to the size of the student desk. THANK YOU to the mom who cut them all out for me. Another THANK YOU to the mom who helped me draw all the different parts. Each student received one of these papers. They were to work through each section, which reviewed all the skills we had learned during our fractions unit in math.

This is a close up of one section. They were to write a fraction for the shaded parts.

Here they had to color each fraction that was given. I also told them to color the other parts different colors. This made them look more complete and colorful.

This picture shows one of the problem solving questions that they were asked to solve. Lastly they had a place to create their own fraction problem.

My students got a kick out of completing these papers. I am pretty sure it was because they were the size of their desks.  Each student took pride in their graffiti desk and they turned out WONDERFUL!

I will UPDATE this post once I have pictures of the finished papers.