Monday down, 4 more days to go until the weekend. 

I tutor after school every Monday.  We usually complete our homework during this time but today my 6th grade students did not have homework because they had  a test today and we will start a new topic on negative numbers tomorrow.  So I decided to go ahead and preview the lesson for them.  We discussed negative numbers using the number line, money, and a thermometer. 

I then decided to break out the playing cards and play the game speed.  If you aren't familar with speed I'll up date you.  Place the cards in two even stacks side by side take the top card of each pile and turn over face up, side by side between the two stacks of cards.  Each player will get a stack (only two players!) they will then go either up one or down one card value from the cards that are face up.  Goal is to empty your stack of cards before your partner. 

We played this with negative numbers by making black cards positive and red cards negative. It was a lot of fun!  I  have done this before with my 7th grade students and they seemed to enjoy it, but 6th grade really had a good time.  We will play this game again tomorrow during class. 

Angle time....

Angle books are on their way to creation!  When I was student teaching my cooperating teacher created angle books for her students using the frayer model and they took notes in their angle books regarding all types of angles.  We will begin this tomorrow in 7th grade.  We will have also have an angle project, "Angles in nature"  Students will create either a book, PowerPoint, or diagram of angles that occur naturally.  What a great spring project!  Very excited to get all these things started. 

Edmodo madness...

Today I started using edmodo in my algebra 1 class.  I am going to try and get the laptops everyday during this class and post quiz questions to this page and various links.  This will make completing geogebra assignments very easy!! 

Tomorrow we are going to the gym to run at different distances in order to complete the an activity for writing equations of linear graphs. 

should be an exciting week, as it usually is in middle school! 

Come see us sometime at the end of hall!!  You will definitely burn calories to see us! 

Thought I might post some pictures of my classroom!

These are all photos of my classroom this summer when I was first hired. Big and lots of potential!

My room after i got a hold of it!!!  Now this was in the very beginning of the year and a lot has changed since this picture was taken.  My background was taken last week in my room so you can see what all has gone down since the beginning of the year.  But I love my classroom and I enjoy spending time there! 

Good Sunday evening All!! I am up planning lessons for the upcoming week and working on an upcoming geometry unit. 

Super excited about geometry!  I love the subject and can't wait to share my enthusiasm with my students! Should be a lot of fun. 

We are completing our scale figures this week by presenting our scale model of candy bars. 

I am attaching the rubric I used for this project so you can see what all I was looking for.  They look great and hit every part of standard 7.G.1 for the common core. 

We will not be working with classifying and constructing angles.  I am anxious to begin this unit, as well.  We will be creating angle books based upon the frayer model.  I am also having students create a book, PowerPoint, scarp book, or collection of various angles in the natural world around us.  This will be a cross curriculum project with the science teacher. 

 

Good afternoon all,

let me introduce myself, I am a first year middle school math teacher at a very small school district.  I create many of things I use in my classroom.  We do projects and lots of hands on!  I am anxious to share my materials and get your feedback. 

I will be posting some materials soon.

I teach 6th, 7th, and 8th grade math.  As well as an algebra 1 course for accelerated 8th grade students.

Currently in 7th grade we are working on reproducing scale models.  This is going so well!!!!  It is possibly one of the most exciting things we have done in math class so far this year!! i am loving it and so are the kids!  I will have pictures up for you very soon to check out!