In fourth grade students are tasked with building a basic knowledge of classifying triangles based on their attributes, identifying angles (right, acute and obtuse) as well as classifying two-dimensional figures based on their characteristics (TEKS 4.6c, TEKS 4.6d). While this is a fourth grade skill, it seems to be an area that many grade levels beyond also need enforcement in before our ... View Post
Transformations Can Be Tricky!
Each year, I secretly love when I get to teach transformations because I not only enjoy teaching them but I love seeing the LIGHT in student's eyes when they finally grasp on to what they are or they are able to teach a classmate. Seriously the best part of teaching. If your students are anything like mine they seem to get each of the different types of transformations (rotation, ... View Post
Math Workshop: Working it Out in Middle School
For many people, implementing Math Workshop in Middle School is a foreign concept. I'm here to tell you that it doesn't have to be. You can make it work. I did and I honestly think that my students learned more because of it. Setting Up the Week Many of you know that I am a HUGE Interactive Notebook user and being so does not mean it is the only think that I do in my classroom, in fact using ... View Post
Update on Converting Rational Numbers (Fractions, Decimals and Percents)
With a new school year there is always a reason to change things up a bit in lessons and doing so in my Interactive Notebooks is no different. Back in September 2012, I created one of my first flippables for my official interactive notebooks and that has widely been seen around the internet. This Converting Rational Numbers flippable is my best seller on Teachers Pay Teachers individually with ... View Post
Creating Diagrams in Interactive Notebooks
If you are like me there are times where creating a diagram is necessary to show how something works. When I was teaching fifth grade we had so many diagrams and they were up all over our classroom because I didn't know better. This made it really hard for my students to actually use the diagrams to retain the knowledge. Now that I have been using Interactive Notebooks for the past four years I ... View Post
Taming the Tape Monster in Interactive Notebooks
You know exactly what I mean. Sometimes it is just easier to use tape in interactive notebooks for things or you need tape because you are creating a hinge of sorts with papers that you are putting in your notebook. It is just a necessity. You cringe at the thought of using tape though because you just know that Tommy or Phillip is going to pull out 6 feet of tape just because they can. Or you ... View Post
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