Teaching Tales Along the Yellow Brick Road: foldable

I'll be the first to admit that I'm ever so slightly addicted to Pinterest. {Maybe more than slightly} So accidentally finding one of my posts pinned on Pinterest by someone I don't even know. Kind of cool! Especially to someone who enjoys that site as much as I do. I've found so many great ideas and have been inspired by so many on Pinterest, that I find it humbling that someone else would want to pin me.

Ahhh! I've been pinned!

With the fun/happiness this discovery has made, I like to share a little something with you!

In the coming weeks, we are moving from novel studies to reading skills practice. One facet of reading that we will be reviewing are the 5 prefixes and suffixes that 5th graders in Kansas need to know. I created a foldable for note taking for the students and I thought I'd share it with you too. Click on the picture below to be taken to my Teacher's Pay Teacher's store to download for free!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend... happy pinning :)

I really wish that I would have taken more pictures throughout our geometry unit. There are so many creative ideas out there to help solidify these concepts for kids.

A few of the activities we did included:

building various 2D and 3D shapes using marshmallows and toothpicks
modeling various types of lines using pretzels (for the lines), M&Ms (for points and to create line segments), and candy corn (to show how the lines go on endlessly)
creating foldables to remember different types of angles using the idea from Fabulous Fourth Grade!
we also talked about transformations, using gross motor actions, and creating an interactive foldable.
and my students' favorite activity: the symmetry activity!

This center was pretty simple. Having 4th and 5th graders, it took just a few minutes of reviewing for the students to remember what symmetry is and for them to get the hang of creating a symmetric pattern. Students used their rulers to create the line of symmetry.