Blogging For A World-Wide Audience--Thanks To Google Translate

Hello everybody!  Thank you lot for all of your back upward to .  I promise that my hand-on math ideas together with math concepts I volition hold out sharing volition hold out able to larn worldwide.  Thanks to Google Translate (just below my header) all the blog's content tin hold out translated into several dissimilar languages!  I don't know if it volition hold out grammatically right inwards each language, but it gives the chance for many to a greater extent than people to larn the information.  You powerfulness visit adding this gadget to your blog.

So, if you lot know of soul inwards to a greater extent than or less other the world or soul who would prefer to read this weblog inwards their native language--please part it.

What other languages too English linguistic communication create you lot know?  Is Google Translate accurate amongst that language?

Math Activities Alongside Clocks

Clocks are useful as well as the powerfulness to read an analog clock is a science many kids (and around adults) fighting with.  Today I'll hand around activities as well as things to produce amongst the 12-hour analog clock as well as the 24-hour clock.

• Above is the 12-hour touchstone analog clock, assuming nosotros are using AM as well as PM times. (Thanks to parentconcept.com--a French homeschooling website for the image).
• Use the higher upwards icon to clit a sure enough time.
• I conduct keep a postage similar this one where I made a retentiveness game.

• Show what it agency to become clockwise as well as counter-clockwise.  (right as well as left, directions)
• You tin hand the axe role the icon higher upwards every bit a pie graph to nautical chart the fourth dimension a tiddler plant on a chore or a describe of piece of job (For example: if a child reads for 10 minutes possess total inward a pie slice from 12-2).
• Do a Google icon search of "analog clocks" as well as come across if you lot tin hand the axe read all the times.
• You tin hand the axe speak virtually time zones as well as how dissimilar places inward the globe are at a subsequently or before fourth dimension than yourselves.

You tin hand the axe speak virtually 24-hour clocks.  There are 24 hours inward a solar daytime after all.  Many parts of the globe role the 24-hour time.

• With either the 12-hour or 24-hour clock you lot tin hand the axe listing activities you lot are doing during sure enough times of the day.
• Talk virtually schedules as well as length of activities that your favorite hobbies take...How long does a soccer game last?  Are at that spot breaks betwixt these sports--quarters, half-times? (You're talking virtually fractions as well as you lot in all probability don't fifty-fifty realize it.)
• Did you lot know at that spot is around other way the 24-hour clock tin hand the axe live seen other than the analog as well as digital?  Have you lot heard of a binary clock?

I didn't know virtually them until my hubby got 1 every bit a Christmas present.  He showed me as well as the kids how to read it.  This is the best tutorial I constitute virtually it...    Watch "Binary Clock Tutorial" on YouTube

I approximate you lot tin hand the axe acquire the binary clock app for your smart outcry upwards too...

• When learning virtually the binary clock at that spot is a skillful kids majority that describes what binary numbers are inward skillful detail.  It's...

• You mightiness honor it inward your local library.  I constitute it real informative (although it may conduct keep a few days to become through amongst your tiddler or class).  It is a fascinating subject as well as may intrigue your immature educatee too.

What is your favorite clock type? Analog or digital?  Do you lot role a 24-hour clock?

Math Activities Alongside Eggs!

Let's acquire crackin' (I hateful going)...

So many fun things to produce alongside eggs, only my all-time favorite is Fractions alongside egg cartons.

Fractions alongside egg cartons has been to a greater extent than or less for a while, only I'm non certain how many teachers together with parents know how many levels of fractions that tin live done alongside them.  You tin do identifying fractions, adding fractions, subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions, together with dividing fractions.  And spell doing those y'all tin speak almost fraction equivalents, mixed fractions, together with improper fractions.  Hopefully I didn't lose y'all there, only I volition live posting specific lessons afterwards on, only hither are a few examples of what to produce alongside EGGS together with egg cartons.

Egg Carton Fractions:  While y'all operate alongside eggs, y'all mightiness become alongside the plastic eggs instead.  Also, using a pic of the egg carton may live best when recording your findings.

• Have fun seeing the dissimilar ways the eggs gibe inwards the carton.  What fraction is that?
• You tin add together fractions...

• And present how those fractions needed to become to the mutual denominator first...

• Have fun exploring all the things y'all tin produce alongside fractions using egg cartons!

Adding together with subtracting: using plastic eggs...

• Write numbers on your eggs together with position that many items within (jelly beans, blueberries, select anything that volition fit.) Have kids notice the eggs together with do adding upwardly their total.
• For subtraction y'all tin write a work on the egg alongside a permanent mark (for example: 9-4=_ or 8-_=6) and
1. have the kids position that many items within it.  OR...
2. have baskets labeled 1, 2, 3, etc. representing the answers together with the kids convey to position the eggs inwards the basket.

Cooking alongside eggs: How many recipes convey eggs?  Look through a cookbook together with see...

• Next fourth dimension y'all laid upwardly alongside eggs, position them inwards a mensuration loving cup for liquids--What's the majority within 1 egg, iii eggs, etc.
• Make upwardly discussion problems to solve involving your family.  If everyone has a 2 egg omelet once a week, how many eggs would y'all convey used over i year?

Have y'all played math games alongside EGGS before?

Math Activities Amongst H2o Ice Cubes...

The alphabetic quality I was hard to come upwardly up alongside something, simply I mean value ice cubes tin hold upwardly fun to play with...

• You tin detect out the book of a bunch of H2O ice cubes past times filling upwardly a measuring loving cup to a for sure measuring in addition to thence lay the cubes in.  The departure is the book of the H2O ice itself. (Water displacement)
• See how many H2O ice cubes y'all tin stack i on operate past times of another.
• Build an H2O ice cube pyramid.  How many H2O ice cubes did y'all use?  You could hold upwardly given a for sure amount in addition to brand whatever other type of structure.
• Get a bunch of ice, lay it inward a measuring bowl or cup, guess how much H2O it volition hold upwardly when it melts.  Come dorsum the side past times side day... Was your guess correct?  Is at that spot a pool of H2O on the exterior of the drinking glass from condensation?
• You tin utter nearly freezing temperatures for H2O vs. apple tree juice, soda, or something else.  Try making unlike types of frozen cubes.  Do they melt at the same speed every bit ice?  Try a side-by-side comparison.

What math things tin y'all produce alongside ICE CUBES?

Math Activities Amongst Kitchens.

There's a lot you lot tin produce with kitchens.

You tin gear upwardly inwards kitchens in addition to expect inwards the cabinets, alongside a lot of other things...

• What if you lot could redesign your kitchen?  What would it expect like?  Take measurements of your infinite in addition to blueprint what to produce with it.
• Count how many drawers you lot accept vs cabinets. Are all your cabinets the same size?  How many plates in addition to bowls are inwards your cabinets?
• Organize the silverware.  Is at that topographic point the same pose out of all the forks, spoons, in addition to knives?
• Look inwards the refrigerator. How many jars are inwards there?  Make charts based on the nutrient inwards the fridge...
• Bar graphs on how much nutrient is on each shelf.
• Venn diagrams of who eats what food.
• Pie charts with expiration dates.

There are a ton of things to do... What tin you lot produce inwards your kitchen?

Math Activities Amongst Money

Playing alongside coin tin hold upward actually fun equally a kid (and mayhap equally an adult too).  I discovery that many kids discovery it hard to brand alter alongside money, though.  I am trying to larn around children's mass published that involve playing alongside money.  If you lot require to impress out around play money, you lot tin impress my 'menu money' here.

Here are around activities you lot tin create alongside your student.

• Have a kid add upward iii unlike priced items (total nether $20).  Have them discovery alter (from a $20 bill).
• Play alongside imitation coin (add, subtract, multiply, in addition to divide).
• Add upward an lodge at the grocery store, carve upward to discovery the average per draw of piece of employment solid member.
• At a eating theater multiply in addition to encounter how much the full would hold upward if everyone ordered the same thing.
• For whatever of these situations, given the play money, bring them brand alter from a larger paid amount (If the full is $8.75, how much would you lot larn dorsum if you lot gave them $20--and to hold upward to a greater extent than difficult--how much would you lot larn dorsum if you lot gave them $20.25?)
• Get to know what currency is inward your area--US $, CAN $, Euros, etc. in addition to practise using them.
• Play alongside a budget.  Have the kids conception meals alongside exclusively a sure enough amount of coin for a few days--can they remain inside the budget?

Are at that topographic point there whatever other denominations of 'menu money' you lot desire to see?  .01 or .50? Maybe a l or 100?

Math Activities Alongside Popcorn!

A fun nutrient that has a lot of fiber--it's popcorn!

Yum!  I had to brand roughly as well as then I could become the picture... Before it was popped it looked similar this...

How many kids could pose a popcorn kernel?  Do they know how much only 1/4 of a loving cup of popcorn makes?

• You could brand a popcorn necklace alongside dental floss (and using a needle).  See how long yous tin brand it--how many pieces of popcorn did yous use?
• Do a comparing alongside popped corn pieces as well as popcorn kernels inwards ii measurement cups side past times side.
• Practice uncomplicated sectionalization as well as multiplication (and their fact families) alongside popcorn kernels (this does cause got fine motor skills!)
• In piffling bowls count out a certainly expose of kernels (take v for example).  If yous cause got 4 bowls as well as each person's bowl volition become v kernels, what is the total?
• Take a handful of kernels as well as separate them betwixt bowls equally.  36 kernels shared 4 ways volition hold upward ____ kernals. 36  ÷ 4 = 9, 36 ÷ 9=4, 4 10 9=36, nine 10 4=36

For reading at that spot is a peachy kids book...The Popcorn Book

And only for fun yous tin sing Popcorn Popping

What tin yous practice alongside popcorn as well as math?

Math Activities Alongside Umbrellas

Apparently I missed a 24-hour interval too didn't fifty-fifty realize it... So, at 1 time I am catching upwards thus I destination the A to Z challenge on time...

Umbrellas are cool.  They are compact, but them opened upwards up to hold upwards big too useful.

• Measure the size of the umbrella unopen too and thus stair out it when it's open.
• How many spokes come upwards out from the centre to brand your umbrella?  How many joints are on each spoke?
• How would y'all blueprint an umbrella?  Draw a novel type of umbrella.  Did y'all role math to become far symmetrical?
• Get simply about chalk too when the Sun is shining depict the shadow of an umbrella's shade at it's lowest betoken (closest to the ground).  Then depict the shadow at the highest betoken y'all tin stand upwards for it.  Are the areas much dissimilar or close the same?
• Measure the fourth dimension it takes for an umbrella to autumn from the same distance when it is unopen vs. when it is open.

What tin y'all create amongst math too umbrellas?

Math Activities Amongst Velcro!

Velcro has been unopen to a while--since 1948 together with it tin live fun to play alongside too.

 They come upwards inward unlike forms: sew together on strips, adhesive backing strips, together with adhesive backing dots or squares.
The claw side is the stiffer side together with the softer, fluffier side has petty loops.

Mostly what you lot tin create alongside Velcro involves physics, merely immature students tin play alongside velcro together with brand observations, write downwards data, together with brand hypotheses.  Here are some things you lot tin essay alongside Velcro.

• Put a claw slice of adhesive Velcro on the underside of a desk.   Put the flexible loop adhesive slice on a claw of some sort.  Hang a plastic handbag from the claw together with run into how much you lot tin pose inward the handbag until the Velcro can't concur it whatsoever longer.
  


• Can you lot discovery it's breaking weight?
• Were you lot able to pose to a greater extent than things inward the handbag than you lot idea you lot could earlier it broke the Velcro bond?
• How many items did you lot pose inward the bag?
• Can you lot larn far together with thence unopen to breaking the bond where you lot tin count the pose out of strings from the loop halt that are belongings onto the hooks?

How many items create you lot ain that accept Velcro?  Can you lot create math alongside them?

Math Activities Alongside Walls.

Walls tin live on proficient math tools.

• Estimate how big the walls are inwards the room some you.  Get a measuring record as well as banking concern jibe to run into if you lot were correct.
• How long would all the wall some you lot live on if they were 1 long wall? (Addition)
• What is the departure betwixt ii dissimilar walls? (Subtraction)
• Can you lot blueprint what you lot desire on your wall?
• Make a floor-plan drawing of your room using graph newspaper as well as your wall measurements.  Can you lot brand a floor-plan for the whole house?  What is the full foursquare footage?
• Can you lot blueprint your ain identify floor-plans?

What math tin you lot produce alongside the walls some you? 

Mental Math Amongst Addition.

I convey been really lucky to empathize how to produce arithmetics mentally, but perhaps some people haven't been equally lucky.  Here is a uncomplicated illustration for a immature small-scale to empathize an add-on problem.  By the way, mental math actually solely involves thinking almost the nearest five or nearest 10.

Say nosotros convey the work 7+8=

When nosotros await at a grouping of objects, our eyes tend to grouping things into little groups, usually two as well as 3.  We too tend to form things past times color.  Looking at this group, mentally I would split it equally 3+2 blueish is 5, two green, 3+2 pinkish is 5, as well as iii gold.  It would await similar this...

Knowing how to add together 5s is actually tardily thus nosotros grouping those together--and add-on is fun because nosotros tin plow over the axe easily motion the numbers to a greater extent than or less (Commutative Property).  Our work as well as thus becomes this.

And nosotros come across that it is merely 5+5+5 which is 15.  Then if your small-scale is cook yous tin plow over the axe exhibit them they tin plow over the axe produce multiplication alongside this one...

Mental arithmetic can teach easier if yous do as well as merely intend almost how unopen the digits are to an easier set out to locomote with.  For illustration 63+19: Separate into lx as well as plow over the iii to the nineteen to live on 22 as well as at ane time the work is 60+22.

I promise yous enjoyed the add-on mental math session!

How are yous when it comes to doing arithmetic?  Can yous produce it mentally or produce yous ask to write everything down?  Or produce yous describe out a calculator?

Math Manipulative Linky Amongst Ideas Past Times Jivey

Today I am linking upwards alongside Jivey for her Workshop Wednesday.  I excited to encounter she was doing a math related subject this calendar week then I could participate easily. : )

I am non actively instruction inward the classroom, then I am non going through the twenty-four hr catamenia to twenty-four hr catamenia materials alongside xx or to a greater extent than kids, precisely I produce stimulate got 5 kids of my ain to teach, assistance alongside homework (at this request 1 withal needs a lot of help), together with all the other proficient materials that comes alongside beingness a mom.

This calendar week is nearly math manipulatives.  I LOVE instruction math together with dear the hands on expression of it.  I experience at that spot are then many learners that take away that visual together with sensory utilisation of math earlier they tin motion on to the representational together with abstract part.

So, nearly my math manipulatives.... I don't stimulate got the mutual instructor manipulatives at home, then I utilisation all the things to a greater extent than or less my identify together with that my kids utilisation to endure their manipulatives.  The manipulative they utilisation most is likely Legos.  Almost anything y'all stimulate got multiples of at your identify (or inward your classroom) tin endure a manipulative: Books, blocks, balls, paperclips, pilus clips, eggs, etc.  In some of my by posts I stimulate got shown this.

Here are those posts if y'all desire to accept a expect at them...

• Math activities alongside apples
• Math activities alongside hangers
• Math activities alongside necklaces together with neckties
• Math activities alongside paperclips
• Math activities alongside popcorn
• Math activities alongside Legos
• Math activities alongside Q-tips
• Math activities alongside shoes

I conception on making some instructor resources then that all my instructor friends tin give these hands-on math activities for homework or equally a station inward the classroom.  I'd dear to know if y'all intend y'all would utilisation something similar that.

Please bring together me tomorrow for my showtime MaTh action Th party--the subject is identify value.

Also, I'd dear to add together your spider web log to my growing Teacher Blog Directory.

Thanks Jivey for hosting a linky party!  Have a keen day!

Math Activities Alongside Magazines As Well As Catalogs

Well, I didn't larn whatever links for my political party final Thursday, but perhaps I only don't bring plenty readers yet.  Maybe this calendar week volition last better.  The MaTh action Th topic this calendar week volition be... percentages!

So, larn create to percentage how y'all instruct percentages, or if y'all bring whatever ideas y'all tin order notice mean value of alongside them.  I promise to run across y'all dorsum on Th : )

Back to some suggestions for math activities...

I don't know almost you, but I larn a ton of magazines in addition to catalogs inwards the mail.  Most of them terminate upwards inwards my recycling trash, but hither are some ideas y'all tin order notice create alongside those magazines in addition to catalogs instead of throwing them away immediately.

Magazines

• Do a math scavenger hunt.  Some ideas are:
• Have cards alongside math equations in addition to they bring to abide by that publish in addition to cutting it out from the magazine.  
• Have coloring and/or shape patterns where they bring to cutting out the adjacent coloring and/or shape.
• Have twenty-six math problems that the kids bespeak to solve.  Each i volition last associated alongside a letter.  Have of import words of your clues for the scavenger hunt last inwards that code.
• Give the kids iii minutes to abide by every bit many ads every bit they can.  Make lists of similarities in addition to differences of the ads.  Who has the longest list?  What was the average publish of similarities inwards the class?

Catalogs

• Pick a toll in addition to abide by how many items are below that toll or higher upwards that price.  Timing the kids tin order notice larn inwards fun.
• Get every bit around a given budget every bit possible.  If y'all bring just $37, what items tin order notice y'all perchance purchase alongside getting every bit around that every bit possible but non going over budget.

Have y'all used magazines in addition to catalogs inwards your cast before?  If so, how did y'all purpose them?

Math Activeness Thursday Alongside Percentages

It's Th i time once again in addition to nosotros are doing Percentages!  I know it may live on a difficult i for you, but I'd honey to take away heed how y'all role percentages inwards your class.

I experience that percentages are i of those things that either kids are expert at or they are not.  There doesn't look to live on many inwards the middle.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 kid inwards quaternary or 5th degree should live on able to sympathise percentages in addition to they tin plow over the axe sympathise it well, if they are introduced to it inwards a straightforward manner.

Here is how I learn percentages...

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pct is merely closed to other means nosotros exhibit fractions in addition to decimals, but a pct is how those fractions in addition to decimals relate to 100.  For example...

• 1/4 is likewise known equally a quarter.
• In decimal cast it is 0.25 (That's what a quarter money inwards worth--1/4 of a dollar).
• 0.25 equals 25/100 (twenty-five hundredths)
• So, if 25 people out of 100 people similar strawberries, nosotros would country 25% of people similar strawberries.

Whenever y'all run across a decimal it tin plow over the axe live on turned into a percentage.  It is merely the kickoff 2 house values below the decimal (the tenths in addition to hundredths spots) . _ _ =  _ _ %

Children volition in addition to thus require do showing their agreement of this information.

Once they accept gotten expert at that y'all tin plow over the axe learn them how to honour a pct alongside whatever situation.  They create require to accept a noesis of multiplication in addition to division.  They unremarkably learn this inwards Algebra, but immature children tin plow over the axe acquire it easily...

You know that when y'all accept an equation inwards fellowship to accept the equal sign the equation must live on balanced...

2+2=4.  If y'all had 2+3=4 that wouldn't live on right.  It would live on 2+3>4 (since y'all know 2+3 is a full of 5).

In math nosotros position the unknown equally an x.

For example: 4+3= x  and y'all in addition to thus know that x=7 

or 15 ÷ x = iii in addition to y'all know that x = 5

Let's endeavor a work to honour the percentage.

seven out of thirty kids inwards your cast similar broccoli.  What pct of the cast likes broccoli?

There are a couplet ways y'all tin plow over the axe create it.  Simply divide: 7/30 in addition to hollo upwardly that the decimal y'all come upwardly up needs to live on changed to a percentage.

The other means to create it is a chip to a greater extent than complicated.  It is the means y'all would acquire inwards an algebra class.  You are comparison the province of affairs alongside the fraction representation of a pct (something hundredths)...

I know that children at almost historic catamenia ix in addition to to a higher house tin plow over the axe sympathise this, if they accept a basic agreement of disclose concepts of multiplication in addition to division.  In other posts I volition exhibit those concepts.

How create y'all exhibit percentages?  Is it fifty-fifty talked almost inwards your grade?

Getting To Know Lucy Ravitch--At : )

I know I am a flake behind, but I constitute this linky political party that mightiness boost my followers together with help me acquire to know other instructor bloggers!

Thanks to I {Heart} Recess for the link up!

1. Why I started blogging tin dismiss endure answered inwards my first post, although I accept learned all near TpT together with TN since then, thence straight off I genuinely desire to brand Teacher Resources too.
2. Favorite dependent champaign to instruct is math!  I genuinely passed the AP Calculus exam inwards high school, but I loved having immature kids sympathise math concepts.  I am non currently pedagogy due to interesting affair position out 3.
3. Teaching agency would endure hands-on. Love activities, white boards, together with movement.
4. Interesting things....humm

1. I biked from Los Angeles to Salt Lake amongst friends when I was 17 together with that's how I got to college : ) No take away to purchase an flat ticket!
2. I dearest organizing drawers.
3. I accept v kids--large families are few hither inwards Los Angeles, thence I'm ever getting the comment "Well, yous accept your hands full!"

5. My TpT shop is HERE but I don't accept whatever products yet--I'm working on them.

An Abide By From A Swain Blogger!

I wanted to order a particular give cheers yous to Kristen (a blogging friend who I met through the Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to Z challenge)!  She nominated me to have a Very Inspiring Blogger Award.

A bang-up compliment she gave me was when she wrote "Lucy Ravitch at : She's similar the Danica McKellar of the weblog world."  I actually exercise desire kids, in addition to adult, to know that math tin order the sack hold upwards fun.  I know that learning basic concepts outset volition assistance with mathematical comprehension equally yous acquire to a greater extent than complex problems.

And only for fun I volition response the associated questions that Kristen set up...
1. What is your favorite video game (if any)?  I don't play video games much at all, but occasionally I'll play Angry Birds.
2. Do yous similar to slumber on a rattling soft surface, or a harder surface? Soft!
3. What is the most odd nutrient yous accept tried?  Durian (in a birthday cake for my friend's Dad).
4. What is your favorite odd nutrient or repast (if yous accept one)? I used to beloved the TV dinner Salisbury Steak dinners when I was a kid.  I don't know if I would similar it now, but it was bang-up growing up. : )
5. What is the outset feel yous plow to when describing something inwards your writing (taste, smell, touch, sight, etc)?  Sight in addition to touch.
6. What is 1 of the cutest things yous accept always seen inwards your life?  My children grin when they were babies : )
7. What is the ugliest affair yous accept always seen or experienced?  A bad car accident.  I was close vii in addition to a kid close my historic stream was dead inwards the car amongst her woman raise screaming for her acre people held her back.  Still makes me teary eyed to this day.
8. Do yous prefer typing or writing amongst a pen or pencil in addition to paper?  Drawing in addition to pen in addition to newspaper mostly.
9. What is your favorite affair to drink?  Henry Weinhard's Root Beer!  That materials is heavenly.

Thanks 1 time again Kristen!

For this week's MaTh activeness Th we'll hold upwards focusing on Single Digit Addition!  So, if yous accept ways to brand add-on fun in addition to to a greater extent than engaging delight percentage it amongst us on Thursday!

Math Activeness Thursday: Unmarried Digit Addition

I convey been thus busy, precisely I'm withal hosting MaTh action Th too today nosotros are going amongst the basics: Single digit Addition.

I savour showing kids the concept behind unmarried digit add-on too and thus 1 time they empathize that they tin create the worksheets.  Playing amongst objects is thus much to a greater extent than fun!

For the action y'all volition demand 2 groups of nine objects, 2 baskets/containers to concur each group, roughly 3x5 cards, too a marker.

Prepare the 3x5 cards past times writing 1-9 on ii sets of cards.  One carte amongst a plus sign too 1 amongst an equal sign.

How to play:

• With ii piles of objects exterior (but adjacent to) each container a kid or ii children position how many objects they select too position them into the container.  (My kid position all of them.  We counted equally she position each 1 in.)
  
  
  
• Put the let on carte that represents that many objects.
• Move all the objects out too inwards 1 big pile together to the correct of the equal sign card.  The let on cards remain inwards the containers.
  
  
  
• Then count all of those objects amongst the child(ren) too brand a let on carte that says that number.
  
• Do it 1 time again to come across other let on combinations.  
• The kid tin too motility 1 grouping from the handbasket over past times the equal sign too usage counting upwards equally y'all add together the minute group.

What fun ways create y'all learn unmarried digit addition?

Five For Friday Linky Amongst Doodle Bugs Teaching

I decided to possess got role inwards the Linky Party that Doodle Bugs Teaching has on Fridays.  I'm a piffling belatedly posting, but amend belatedly than never.

I am non currently teaching, but I'm busy raising kids piece doing blogging as well as writing children's books to part my creativity.

This calendar week I got to transplant this tangerine bush from its struggling location to a to a greater extent than opened upwardly spot (I promise it does amend there.)

Had my dog's start domestic dog preparation session today : )  He was already pretty good, but he is showing off amongst splendid demeanor now...

Got novel tires on the minivan today--only later waiting at Costco for a piffling over three hours today amongst toddler as well as babe (I am fortunate they had the tires because unremarkably they are exceptional order.  Thank y'all to whoever ordered them as well as cancelled their order!)  Luckily my apartment happened some my household in conclusion nighttime as well as non inwards another inconvenient place.

I finally convinced my near 12 twelvemonth erstwhile to cutting his hair!  We chopped off over two inches of wildness as well as he looks sharp, although he refuses to permit me possess got his picture...

I'm getting cook to become to an SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers as well as Illustrators) workshop from 9-4 tomorrow to brand Core Curriculum related materials for my majority as well as whatever other books I select to bring.

Have a swell weekend everyone!

Monday Math Amongst Towels!

Okay, the creation of this painting demo took me means likewise long, precisely it is super fun to create math amongst kids spell folding towels.  There are a lot of keen math concepts inward this activity!

Supplies:

• Towels that needs folding (hand towels are easier for immature kids).
• Papers the expect well-nigh the same cast every bit your towel (you may postulate to cutting the paper(s) a piddling to brand the ratio to a greater extent than accurate).

Activity:

• As ane soul folds the towel, unopen to other soul is folding the newspaper the same way.
• Try unlike ways of folding.  
• Look at all your newspaper results.  Ask questions, depict conclusions, brand predictions, too test hypotheses.

How many teachers/parents out at that topographic point would similar a worksheet to become amongst this activity?