Five Things Friday: Book 12

Well, we've made it to both Fri as well as March. I can't believe that Spring Break is entirely a few weeks away. I'm both excited for the summertime as well as terrified that I'm non going to acquire far through the entire Algebra i curriculum inwards time. Here's a petty of what I've been upwardly to this week:

1. My Algebra i students debated the upshot of the tug of country of war challenger involving Acrobats, Grandmas, as well as Ivan. I highly recommend this line of piece of work from Marilyn Burns. I constitute a lovely PDF of the activeness here to impress as well as last alongside my students. It was rattling interesting to meet the dissimilar approaches my students took to solve this problem. I'm planning on writing upwardly a transportation service to portion their dissimilar solution methods.


2. My married adult man as well as I instruct a bird of fourth graders at church building on Midweek nights. This semester, nosotros are learning almost a dissimilar parable each week. This week's lesson was on the parable of the persistent widow. We convey a super tiny classroom, as well as then nosotros can't do many of the activities suggested inwards the teacher's guide. I started brainstorming activities or games that nosotros could do to job persistence. Then, it hitting me - PANDA SQUARES!

I passed out a ready of panda squares to each fourth grader as well as gave them no instructions. I only stood dorsum as well as watched them for a while. Most caught on to the stance of matching dark alongside dark as well as white alongside white alongside absolutely no prompting from me. After a fleck of gratis play, I issued the actual panda squares challenge: get together the pieces into a iv x iv foursquare as well as then that the colors check along each edge. 







3. I constitute a fleck of interesting graffiti on my dry out erase board... 


4. I learned a rattling of import lesson. If your filing cabinet drawer won't shut, don't forcefulness it shut. If you lot do, it volition non open. And, your classroom volition terminate upwardly looking similar the photograph below every bit you lot dismantle your entire file cabinet to unstick the drawer that you lot forced shut. I convey to country a exceptional give thank you lot you to my sec menstruum bird for helping me alongside this non-routine filing cabinet maintenance! 


5. We pulled out the hydrocarbon modeling kits inwards chemical scientific discipline this week, as well as my students were big fans of beingness able to do they physical model earlier drawing the Lewis structure. I definitely saw closed to lightbulbs acquire off. 




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