Five Things Friday: Book 10

It's finally Friday! It's felt similar this calendar week has dragged on - belike because I've been looking frontward to having a 3-day weekend! Here's around miscellaneous happenings from this calendar week that deserve a holler on the blog: 

1. I bought a novel puzzle book. Yes, I know I'm addicted to puzzle books. No, I don't intend that's actually a problem. My newest buy was The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers yesteryear The Grabarchuk Family (affiliate link). This is the same work solid unit of measurement that edited together with contributed puzzles to the Puzzle Box Volumes 1-3 (affiliate link) that I rave near all the fourth dimension on this blog. If you lot demand fifty-fifty farther proof of this family's awesomeness, banking concern tally out their novel Strimko Puzzle Books (affiliate link)!   

This puzzle majority is turning out to endure but equally awesome equally the others. There are 567 puzzles inward the book, together with I exclusively paid $5.83 on Amazon for a used re-create amongst gratis shipping. That's but over 1 cent per puzzle which I intend counts equally a super-awesome bargain. If you lot are a geometry teacher, you lot should definitely banking concern tally out this majority because in that place are belike at to the lowest degree 100 puzzles that necktie straight to diverse geometry standards. 

My married adult man together with I had luncheon duty together all week. On Thursday, I brought my novel puzzle majority amongst me together with nosotros enjoyed a fun half-hour of puzzling together with discussing which puzzles nosotros could utilization amongst our students. Shaun tried his manus at a geometric puzzle that involved making a cyberspace of a cube which he plans to utilization inward his unit of measurement on 3D shapes. 

2. We had around fun playing Fraction Capture inward Math Concepts. We haven't reviewed improper fractions yet, together with hence we'll acquire around other run a jeopardy to play amongst an increased bird of strategy later on that.

3. Shaun together with I spent Valentine's eve at church. We learn a degree of 4th graders at church building on Midweek nights. Since it was Valentine's Day nosotros were supposed to do around kind of Valentine's Day Craft. I'm a in conclusion infinitesimal planner together with didn't convey fourth dimension to catch whatever especial supplies, together with hence nosotros took around yarn, colored paper, together with record to brand pump mobiles. My sugariness married adult man made this i for me.

I learned that 7 4th graders tin brand quite a mess piece doing arts together with crafts.

I also learned that cutting out hearts is a science that my 4th graders convey non just mastered yet. Our Wonky Game (affiliate link) made the perfect introductory activity to our lesson over the parable of the wise human who built his work solid on the stone together with the foolish human who built his work solid on the sand.

4. Some of my classes had around unexpected downtime this calendar week since they managed to acquire themselves ahead of my other classes. I pulled out utilization of my game stash to croak along them busy.

We enjoyed around games of Absolute Zero (affiliate link). The creator of this game reached out to me a few weeks agone together with asked if I would similar a gratis re-create inward telephone substitution for a review on my blog. I added it to the games tabular array this calendar week to come across what students though. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 amount review is inward the works, soon, though! This carte du jour game gives students exercise adding positive together with negative integers amongst the destination of landing a manus that equals zero. One of my students said "Tell the creator that it's an okay game for a math game." It must convey been to a greater extent than than but okay because the same educatee insisted on playing the same game a mo fourth dimension this week!

We also played around Panda Squares on Steroids. 

Otrio was belike the biggest hitting of all the games I reveal this week. If Izzi is Panda Squares on steroids, Otrio is Tic-Tac-Toe on steroids. I received my re-create of Otrio equally a gift, but I've been told the best/cheapest house to choice it upwards is Target.   

This week's Silhouettes Puzzle from the puzzle tabular array also got around attending during gratis time. 

The in conclusion game that captivated my students was Tantrix (affiliate link). I taught students to play the solitaire version of the game where you lot flip over the source 3 tiles together with brand a loop. Then, you lot flip over the 4th tile together with brand a novel loop. It gets harder together with harder equally you lot go. I loved watching students acquire from thinking "This is impossible!" to "Oooh...wait...I got it!"  

5. My chemical scientific discipline students requested that nosotros do something fun for Valentine's Day. We haven't done a lab inward a while, together with hence I set together a Conversation Hearts Lab. I saw that you lot could do the criterion Dancing Raisins activity amongst conversation hearts, together with hence I decided to sweat it out. It turns out I should convey but stuck amongst raisins.

Some of my students were able to acquire their conversation hearts to trip the lite fantastic inward their loving cup of soda, but most of the hearts but sunk or floated. :( They yet enjoyed themselves, though!

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