Muslim Woman in Amman

Its Friday!!!! I love Friday. Not only is it the last day of the week, but because of Friday prayer I only have my students for two hours. And one of those hours is independent study where my kids catch up on all late assignments. So I really only have one hour of teaching time, which is why Friday is awesome. But, that's not all it is also the day that this amazing linkup comes up and I just love it so much. I get so many new ideas, thank you so much. And now with out further ado I give you my Five for Friday! In class we are reading Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. We are also working on sequencing in ELA so I came up with this: It's a comic book strip illustrating chapter 15 when Matt and Attean are confronted by a bear. I collected the images off of google image search (so if it belongs to anybody let me know so I can give credit). I thought it was pretty cleaver of me and I was really excited to do it in class. After I did it my students, lovely k...

I have a new product on TPT. It is a set of task cards for Math. I use them in class as a Math literacy enforcer. If the students are behaving they get the enforcer if they then answer the question correctly they get a point on their next assessment. Its a double reward, it gets them thinking about a concept as well as rewarding them for a job well done. It has a set of 20 task cards for fractional part of a set. I also am working on a set for Function Rules and input output tables. Here is an example of one of the cards: If you are interested in taking a look click on the picture below.

This week my school celebrated cultural diversity with out international and cultural dress up day. Most the kids came dressed in their native dress, and they looked amazing.  After wards we went outside where parents had set up booths from different countries. Below is the Congo but we also had Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Palestine, Turkey, Syria, and Bangladesh In class I had my kids write their names in which continent they came from and the different countries around the world. As you can see we have a very international class. . 

I started a new store at Teachers Pay Teachers. I posted a few things that I have done this year. Please stop by and let me know what you think. Just click on the tag below.

In math class we are learning about function rules with input output tables. On Pinterest I saw a pin with a robot to act as a machine to convert the input side to the output side. I really liked the idea so I made my own robot. After I printed it out I laminated it so I can use it with whiteboard markers. I even made smaller ones so that my students have their own little robots that they can use over and over. We did a couple of different function rules with the robots and the majority of my students seemed to grasp the concept. There are a few who still need help, hopefully with more practice they will be able to grasp it.

     My running shoes have been getting a little run down lately so I went to DSW for some new ones. I saw some New Balances that I was going to buy but on my way to the counter I found some awesome red pumas. Same price around 30 dollars, but I liked the pumas a whole lot more. Luckily I happen to have a lot of red clothes so making sure my shoes match isn't that hard.      Unfortunately I underestimated the reaction I would get about my new shoes. One of my students took one look at my shoes and promptly stepped on it. Which resulted in a small chase around the classroom to avoid the little feet that were trying to dirty my new shoes. I lost. I will admit though it was kind of fun, though I think the parents think we're crazy.

     It's Friday! I have a lot of things to share from this week and it is hard to limit to just five but I will try really hard. So, with out further ado my Five for Friday! First up Writer's Workshop. One of our lessons was about writing through a mask. I have been writing my own story while the kids wrote theirs. I use it to demonstrate new writing techniques. For writing through a mask I wrote two paragraphs that show the thoughts of two different characters besides the main one. In Math we were learning about quadrilaterals so I made a small activity for the kids to do. The purpose was to help them match up the shape to its description. For my current Art Orbit rotation I had the kids make these cute brown bag trees. I found them on a Pinterest pin about useless DIY projects . I on the other hand immediately thought that it would be a great art project. I thought they came out really well. Every year the school puts together an Eveni...