However, it has not been no work and all play, because to be perfectly honest, my mind is still in school mode. I've already ordered from Lakeshore Learning, Oriental Trading, and Trend, bought a new artificial tree, and I've started to feel the Vista Print inch too. I have also spent a lot of time reflecting on my math units to find areas to improve upon next year. I'm pretty happy with my place value and multiplication units (my first two units of the year), but I have to admit that my division unit is pretty dry. The content is rigorous and does teach students what they need, but it's boring, and I hate boring. I've created three new lessons for introducing division that incorporate food, and most anything that involves food is fun! These lessons will keep the rigor of the content high, but will allow students to have fun as they learn about the concept of division.
You can check out the lessons by clicking on the link.
Sweet Division
Awesome ideas! I introduced fractions with brownies. At the end of the school year, we have 3rd graders visit our 4th grade classrooms. As soon as the first group entered, one of my students yelled, "we eat brownies for fractions!" A teacher kid then went home and told her mom that she wanted to be in my class because we got to eat brownies. YES! Eating does work :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Terri, I think food lessons are definitely lessons that students will remember.
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