The Peppermint Challlenge

We took a break from our sound unit to do a little STEM activity (science, technology, engineering, and math) which served as a great team builder as well.  Students needed to cooperate and collaborate to build not only the TALLEST   tower possible with the materials they were given, but it also had to support three stacked peppermints.  It was a GREAT TIME!

Algebra is in Full Swing

As a team, we are ROCKING OUT the algebra!  Our Friday quiz went beautifully!  The students are combing like terms left and right--and we discovered a new love lately: MATH LIBS!  It's a twist on the language arts ones you all know and love, only they are competed with math questions!
We have been learning about sound waves as well in science, and we conpleted a sound webquest which was a lot of fun because students got to virtually play different instruments:

Introduction to Algebra

We started one of my FAVORITE units to teach this week-Algebra!
We played Combining Like Terms Go Fish!  It was a lot of fun!
We even worked through order of operations, too.

Next week we will do some fun review of math we've covered already with Thanksgiving themed math centers!  I hope you all have a wonderful holiday-I am very thankfuk to be teaching this group of students this year!

Halloween Week

We had a great week reviewing for our benchmark with fun activities and also included a fun science STEM lab as well:
Of course Mr. Siler and I had a blast dressing up as our former class mascots:

Geometry Fun!


Last week we had a great time planning out either a fall festival OR a haunted house (or other designs if they chose).  Students used their knowledge of finding area, and also their map skills they learned with Mr. Siler to create a blueprint of their event/place.  They used a scale where 1 inch was equivalent to 5 feet, and created some awesome blueprints!

Awesome Night Sky Tonight!!

If you're looking for a science in real life extra credit assignment, check this out tonight!  ðŸ˜€
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Week 5

It has been another great week in Room 403!
We have been hard at work on our Biome Projects!  They are looking great-and due this week!!  (Siler HR-Thursday, Sugg HR-Friday). Students have had over 2.5 hours of in class time to complete these, and anything not completed in class must be completed at home.  I can't wait to see the finished products!

In math we finished up practicing multiplying and dividing fractions, ordering rational numbers, and have moved on to decimals.  We have done some fun hands on projects to practice!

Week 3 and 4

We have been working very hard in math with coordinate grids and also this past week we tackled multiplying and dividing fractions (in word problems, too)!
We will go back to that next week as well along with comparing and ordering fractions.

In science we wrapped up the parts of the flower.  We did a science lab where we dissected a flower to see the different parts:

The students had a great time with this!

Week 2


It was another productive week!  We got down to business this week in math (our first unit to tackle is number systems) and science (parts of a flower, photosynthesis and ecosystems).

We worked together in cooperative learning groups this week working on combining positive and negative integers:

In science we started learning about the parts of the flower, and we also had our first trip to the science lab to have orientation.  We also talked a LOT about lab safety and how to handle materials properly.  We even did an introduction lab so students could become familiar with the lab, expectations, and safety.



This week we will continue with the parts of a flower and head to the science lab.

In math, we will work with a four quadrant coordinate grid and practice reflecting points over the x and y axis.

Our First Week


We had a great first week of school!  We had a lot of fun, got to socialize and get to know our class as well as our team.  All of the students got to partake in our first fun Friday, which was great!

We did a math about me activity this week which was our first math grade! The students got to know each other by figuring out math equations which answered questions about them:

 We played two rounds of Two Truths and a Lie--a favorite game of theirs!  I definitely learned a lot about them!  

We are really looking forward to another GREAT week!  

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