PhillyTeacherGal

At the end of the year I like to give my students real world math activities- this comes as one of my favorites from childhood... helping plan a road trip. The lesson CAN be done in a week and be used in bits and pieces, but I have used it as a 2 week unit. The students loved working on the computers and really liked the freedom to pick their own areas to visit. Parents were also very excited by this project. I worked in collaboration with my grade team partner for the journal prompts to to

Students build an understanding of area as well as practice with decimal multiplication and addition as the create their dream home and use the internet to decorate their home! Day 1- students create blueprints of the homes and think spatially about their homes and find the area of each room. Day 2- students pick flooring for each room in their home using real life online websites, calculate cost of flooring for each room and TOTAL cost of flooring for their homes. Day 3- students pick paint

These BLANK sheets are put in pocket protectors to be used over and over to spiral skills that include; -factors and multiples -estimating and solving equations (can be whole numbers, decimals, or fractions... depending on the unit) -converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers -order of operations -completing number lines (horizontal or thermometer) -graphing points -solving exponents

I write a TON of notes to students, and students often write a TON of notes to me. These notes often get lost and the information forgotten, OR students hand them to me in the middle of class and I can't respond to their concerns fast enough. These quick check lists notes make notes to me or from me easier to read, respond to, and understand. They are also a form of my reflection sheet that is more engaging than my previous one!

For those with a classroom economy system or Class DoJo, this year my students have been balancing a checkbook to keep track of their "money"! Super easy! I took a bunch of notecards, stapled them together, and ta-da! We had 3 columns; date, deposit/withdrawal (for differentiation +/-), and balance. We balanced every Friday and students worked to earn money weekly. They really bought into this but I made sure to have things for them to "buy" each Friday- pencils, pens, homework pass, extra c