Sandwich

Dollar store find!

Yes, I am a teacher and I often find myself sucked into the cheap finds at The Dollar Tree.

In my class, we play a game called "Sandwich", which is just another version of "hamburger".  Well, shout out for the The Dollar Tree, because today they had coasters in the shape of sandwich makings.  Perfect for playing "Sandwich".

Isn't it a cute little sandwich?

The package comes with nine different pieces.  

To play "Sandwich", I pass out a package of sandwich makings for every table.  I usually put a math problem on the board, and the first table to come up with the answer on their own white boards gets a point.  A point means they get to add one sandwich making to their bread.  The first table with a whole sandwich (all the makings on the bread) stands up and enthusiastically yells out "SANDWICH!".

 It's a winner, the kiddos love playing Sandwich!!  

Think I am going to go back to The Dollar Tree and buy the little plastic sandwich holders to keep the pieces in.  Cute, right?

P.S. Right after purchasing the sandwich coasters at The Dollar Tree, I saw very similar hamburger coasters at Target.  So, you can take your pick, is it going to be a "Sandwich" or a "Hamburger" :) ? 

  

Geometric Shapes

Every year I order large craft sticks for my P.E. chart.  They arrived yesterday, and when I opened them I had an idea for Geometry.  

I am going to give each of my students a set of 8 craft sticks to keep in their pencil boxes.  Anytime I call out, "Show me a shape" they will know to pull out their craft sticks.  I will either tell them the name of the shape or the attributes of the shape.  They will use the craft sticks to build the geometric shape.

  

This could totally be made into a game to see who can make the shape first.

Each of my students are given a class number, so I am going to write the given class number on each student's craft sticks.  When (not if) a student loses a stick somewhere around the classroom, we will know who it belongs to.


Any other ideas for uses of these great little craft sticks?

Algebraic Equations

I had the awesome opportunity to go to a two day education conference this year.  One of our keynote speakers at the conference was Ron Clark, the founder of Ron Clark Academy in Georgia!  Holy MOLY, loved this man!!  He was a little ball of energy that inspired me to want to be a better teacher.  You have to check out his school.

While at the conference, Ron talked about teaching his students algebraic equations with balloons.  He did this by writing the equation on a balloon and if a student got it right they could pop the balloon.  Talk about motivational!

I LOVE, HEART, ADORE Amazon.com.  It is where I do 80% of my shopping for school supplies, books and other "necessary" items.  Because of this, I have a steady supply of boxes and packing bubbles coming in.  Amazon usually packs with little air pouches.  Heaven knows I have a lot of little air pouches.  Being a teacher who thinks everything can be reused (you know what I mean), I have always wondered what I could use these little air pouches for.  So the other day when a box came from Amazon, I had an idea!  Algebraic equations with air pouches!

First I took some acrylic paint and painted the tops of the air pouches (the side that does not have writing on it).

After the bubbles dried, I wrote algebraic equations on the bubbles with a Sharpe marker.  

 

Voila!  We have bubble equations!

Another great thing about these bubbles, they have tear marks to be easily pulled apart and handed out to students.    

I am going to give my students an equation bubble and have them solve it on their white boards.  When they solve the problem they get to pop the bubble!   So excited to try this next year.  I am going to make a whole box of equation bubbles ready to go.

Any other ideas for these equation bubbles?