Shapes and Fair Shares!

Hello Everyone!
We had a great 4 day week last week. Isn't it crazy how even though we sometimes have short weeks, we still try to fit 5 days worth of learning in? It really makes for a full few days!!!  We worked hard on all our New Year stuff... Setting new goals for ourselves, learning about resolutions, reorganizing our school setting, etc.  

A great little resolution book to read!!

We worked on solid figures in math!

eating spheres!!

and cones!

Such great hand to head to heart learning!!

For the New Year 2016 unit, CLICK HERE!!! :)

For the shapes unit, CLICK HERE!!! :)

This coming week we will begin a unit on FRACTIONS!!!  Kids love learning about fair shares!!

I put together a mini unit to help me get started. The link will be below, but all you need to pick up for success in this area are some graham crackers and some animal crackers!!  Print off the unit, and GO!!

Here are a few pics of the 32 page unit!

a matching game

A mini book to make

I am really excited to bring my kids into the world of fractions!! 

For your own 32 page Fraction unit, CLICK HERE!!!:)

Okay!!!  Gotta scoot!! The weekend is flying!!!

So much to do!!  Thanks for stopping by!! You are the best!!

Have a wonder-filled week!!!

Joyfully!

Nancy

Sweet Geometry! (and geome"trees!")

Hello Everyone!
Phew! Busy week of Middle of Year Testing, curriculum meetings, tutoring, faculty meetings, PTA meetings, etc, etc, etc, and oh yeah!...We did do some sweet learning along the way!!! We finished up our geometry unit this week with some culminating mini lessons and tub work.  We built figures with edges and vertices (toothpicks and marshmallows) and created some pretty sweet Geome"trees!" Take a look!

 
Two thumbs up!!




Let's make Geome"trees!"

                                        Got to dress the part!!

Tell me about it!!

 We covered our trees with clear cups, taped them down, and brought them home!!

If you would like a printable of our geometry unit, you can click HERE!! :)

Ahh!!  Friday evening!! Hubby's bringing home dinner, catching up on some missed calls, e-mails and terrible TV!!  Can't wait!!!

Till next time, hope your days are filled with

 sweet geometry!!

Joyfully!
Nancy

New Year 2014

Hello Everyone!
I have had several requests to update my New Year unit for 2014.  While doing that, I decided to add a couple of things to go along with where we are in our curriculum.  I have added another poem/chant to help kids work on responding to rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration using voice and body, as well as written expression. 
I have also added a component practicing the hard and soft sounds of c and g. Oh! and there is a quick 2-d geometric figure activity. 
The unit ended up to be about 55 pages.  Here are a few pics.

For your free printable 2014 unit, celebrate and click here!

Or HERE for the 2015 version!! :)

Have a great week!!! 5 more days for us and then winter break!!

Joyfully!

Nancy