Fossils and Petoskey Stones

A student presents her Petoskey Stone Tic-Tac-Toe Project on our new technology equipment.  The tech cart was designed to have student and teacher presentation as a focus.  It's great to see it finally coming into the classroom! 

A student had this to say:
I thought the open office presentation was fun to do because of all the new stuff I learned. Also I put down what I knew and some information from the internet. And I hope people liked my pictures and info I put down but if not they still looked like they were interested. Also I loved using the new technology cart.

Fractions with Hersey Bars!

Hersey bars from Hersey Pennsylvania are one of Americas oldest treats!  And, they come in nice fractional parts of a whole, which was perfect for introducing the concept of unit fractions.  The students enjoyed thoroughly, as did I taking apart these little fractional parts of the whole chocolate bar and eating them!  We began Unit 9 in our Math Expressions books this week, and the students enjoyed having this concrete example to start with.  Our first Quick Quiz is today!  Good luck students!

Experimenting with new technology

We were having a little fun yesterday playing with our new technology cart and projector in the room.  The students had to look at this face during their reflection time at the end of the day.  Poor kids!