Showing posts with label bulletin board. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Guess Who?! - Teeth

photos via cc: mouth 1 - Dana Beveridge, mouth 2 - Chris Penny, mouth 3 - Izik

This fun idea comes from Fall into First! Take photos (or have students take photos) of students' toothless mouths (showing their teeth). Next, ask kids to estimate the total number of teeth that have been lost in the class (sum of all their teeth lost). Have students go around the room and tally how many teeth each of their peers has lost. Have them count all of their tally marks and figure out the total. Whose prediction was the closet? Then, as a class, create a graph of how many teeth each child is missing. Hang the photos up, as well as the graph. Students try to guess who's mouth is whose based on their knowledge of how many teeth each of their peers has lost, as well as their keen observation skills.

Science experiment - Brush your teeth! - Part 1 and Part 2

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Synonym City

Create a city of synonyms! Pass out paint chips (or use paper) and have each child in charge of a word. There challenge is to construct a skyscraper of synonyms! When everyone is finished, build a city. Make a street, add cars, signage, whatever you'd like! You can keep Synonym City hanging on a wall in your classroom to help kids spice up their writing. When kids are feeling uninspired, they can drive to the city and shop for words!


Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Get kids to take abstract photographs and excited about photography by going on a Geometric Scavenger Hunt! Give kids a camera and have them look for shapes. Tell older kids to look for parallel and intersecting lines, as well as right angles. Mary from Guided-Math, had her third graders look for things around their school building hallways. The kids recorded what they took a picture of. Then, she printed out the photos and displayed them in the hall! What an awesomely cool teacher!


photo via guided-math

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2012

T-Rex Footprint and Mouth


Above is a T-Rex footprint graph and scary doorway my class created. Kids get to see their feet in comparison to the actual size of T-Rex's. See if your class can fill up his gigantic footprint!