FREE Area Dominoes - Review in my Classroom

Year 9s are currently working on area, area of composite shapes, volume and capacity.

Since one of my year 9 classes require more support and engaging activities, I decided to use my FREEBIE Area of Square, Rectangle and Triangle Dominoes to review how to calculate the area of basic shapes that should have been covered in year 6 (covered, just forgotten)!

I differentiated this activity by making students show their calculations/ working out! :)

They LOVED working through this activity where they could work in a small group, share the 'working out' responsibility and collaborate to solve the problem!

It is always amazing to hear so much math-related discussion/ arguments happening in class!

 

You can download this FREEBIE Area of Square, Rectangles & Triangles here at my TpT Store!

EASTER Rounding to 5c - 20% OFF!

I LOVE having the opportunity to create beautiful Easter themed activities, but I found that if it wasn't Easter time, the Easter themed activities engaging quality never seemed as purposeful!

That's why in all my items I provide a theme for the present time PLUS a regular theme so you can choose if the game is to be played all year round or just at Easter time!

Easter themed domino cards, question cards, recording sheet and matching activities!

Easter themed board games, recording sheet and cards!

Regular Theme!

This Easter unit is 20% off for a short time, so jump in a grab a bargain! :)

The COMPLETE Perimeter, Area & Volume Collection

This complete collection contains over 174 pages and at least 7 Math Centre resources (with various levels and activities in each centre) to use in your classroom.

To make for an easier unit download, I have included the FREE Math Posters, FREE Perimeter, Area & Volume Wordwall, Free Dominoes and for FREE for you, Math Word Wall!!!!

This would all cost $27.25 to buy individually, but  20% off for bulk purchase makes it $21.80! Over $5 savings!

See the links for more detailed information due to the number of activities included.

Perimeter, Area & Volume Math Center Cards #2 - Valentines Day & Regular theme

Circumference & Area of Circles - 8 worksheets with Answers

Math Center Volume of Prisms - Rotation Cards

Perimeter, Area & Volume Math Center Cards #1

Christmas Perimeter Activity Cards

I Have, Who Has - Area of Square & Rectangle

Unit Conversion, Perimeter & Area Pack

FREE - Perimeter & Area Posters - A4 or A3

FREE - Perimeter, Area & Volume Word Wall - 20 words

FREE - Aussie Area Dominoes - Square, Rectangle & Triangle

Math Word Wall - Other words for....

Finally finished NEW Data Unit 20% OFF!

This unit has taken a lot of time to put together and I'm so pleased I'll have it ready for the new school year! :) So far I am teaching year 8 and 9's with 11 and 12 PVM, but if I get my Day 8 transfer, I will be teaching year 7's!
Awesomely this data unit will be able to be used with any of these year levels/ classes!
This Data Unit is 20% off on in TpT Store and I will upload it very soon to TeachersNotebook!

It includes:

• 16 word walls with 8 blanks, 6 domino mean, median, mode & range math centres over 2 levels
• 8 Math Centre A4 page Worksheets
• 1 x Math Game with three different game boards to choose from with 132 cards (33 mean, 33 median, 33 mode, 33 range.

In Australia, we're all getting ready to go back to school in the next two weeks! TWO WEEKS!

WHERE did those HOLIDAYS go!?

They allllwayyysss FLLLLYYYYYYYYYY by, but I guess that means we've enjoyed the holidays to make them fly! :)

Our school voted on the student free days to be Wednesday, Thursday & Friday from 9am-4pm, so we're back in 11 days!

The kids don't come back until Tuesday 29th January because Monday is Australia Day's public holiday in lieu of because the public holiday is on the Saturday!

Between now and then we have a roof of a Gazebo to build, finish renovating downstairs, make a new FREEBIE and prepare for the new school year!

Any FREEBIE ideas!? :) 

MIA & a NEW Item on Scientific Notation!

My goodness.... After finishing school 5 days ago and all the busy work around reporting and the last two weeks or school, I've neglected my blog! I'm so sorry!

I thought I would do a small post on an item I created recently on Scientific Notation!

Nothing has ever been fun abut learning scientific notation, expanded form or the basic numeral, so I thought it would be a great idea to create a resource for this!
As usual, I've included a theme specific word wall with blanks, three help cards with different examples, three different sets of domino cards and three different, fun & engaging board games with cards!

We received our timetables for next year and (so far) I am teaching Year 8, 2 x Year 9s, 11 PVM and 12 PVM!!

I would much prefer to only teach year 8 or year 8 and 9, but our school puts non-math qualified teachers on year 8 because its 'easier' to teach than year 11 or 12 PVM! :( This makes me so sad for those children.

Earlier in the year I put in a transfer to move to a high school that is accepting year 7's (our school is not) and may find out up to Day 8 if I do or don't have a transfer, so created this (and future) resources for that purpose! 

Talk about nervous... Working 8 days at my school and potentially finding out that I may not be there for day 9! Needless to say, I've cleaned out my room, packed everything in boxes, and if I don't get a transfer, it'll be easy enough to unpack =\

Back to creating my Mean, Median, Mode & Range resource! :)

NEW Rounding Math Center - 20% Off!

Hoooollllyyy busy = Understatement....... I have to say that finally year 12  rankings and verification are now COMPLETE! :) I'm very pleased to say that I have 5 out of my 23 students on a VHA this year! Now just year 8 and 9 assessment to go plus reports due in 2 weeks! 

The Two-digit Rounding Winter Math Centre is super easy and ready to use! All activities have instructions and three have recording sheets. 

This unit contains:

• 48 Flash Cards
• 2 sets of Rounding Dominoes (Instructions included)
• Dice Rounding (Instructions and Recording Sheet included)
• Spinner Rounding (Instructions and Recording Sheet included)
• 2 Rounding Worksheets (Instructions and Recording Sheet included)

I have a lot of other Rounding Items on TpT here!

I look forward to the following 4, well 3 weeks with my classes! Our final week is an 'alternative week' where we do 'engaging and interesting literacy and numeracy' activities! Needless to say the number of students who attend it less than 20% of year 8 and 9s!  :( 

FLASH Halloween SALE & Pictures

I'm having 15% off storewide to celebrate my fantastic Halloween weekend!

What an extremely BUSY weekend. I couldn't have had a more exciting time with Max (and all of us) carving our very first pumpkin! 

A very awesome experience and very effective lit up at the front windows. 

We went to the Manly Harbour Halloween festival and unfortunately we ended up very wet and windy because of poor weather, but it was a fantastic evening with my 2 DEVILS! 

I have so many resources on my 'to create list' but I don't finish this semesters UNI assessment until this Friday, so after that I will be free to create!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend and a great beginning to the week is on its way! :) 

Hooting Rounding Dominos is FAMOUS!

Okay maybe it was an over reaction, but I am so excited to say that Jennifer from Live.Teach.Create blog has posted about Math Work Stations for Middle School - That work and has included one of my items in her review!

Jen's blog looks at scrapbooking projects, home decor, weekly favourites from all over, things that I am doing in daily life, creations for my classroom and much much more!

Jennifer has her students engaging in my Hooting Rounding Decimal Dominoes with groups of students rounding to the nearest whole number and to the nearest tenth.

It was funny to read how Jen had to spend some time teaching students how to play dominoes - this generation IS really different!

Fraction, Decimal & Percentage Dominos in USE!

I took a lot of photos towards the end of last term and I completely forgot to upload them! Here are my year 8s using my Halloween Percentage and Fraction & Fraction and Decimal Dominoes. I just love how creative they became when arranging them! They were competing with each other for the most confusing maze :)

It was so lovely to see some of my lower level students being able to use their calculators to divide the fractions and get the decimal or percentage answer and see the relationships between them as they progressed through the cards! It was adorable to see one of my highest level year 8 students ask me to remind him how you convert between fractions and percentages (4/20 the specific question)! After one example, needless to say he was extremely embarrassed and laughed it off! :)

It reminds me how necessary continual revision of concepts are throughout the entire year and how easy it is to focus only on the set curriculum which benefits students at the time, but not in the long run.

FREEBIE Fraction Tri Ominos

I admit it.... Even though I don't want to.... Fraction Tri Ominos was my husbands idea! This is what happens when we're both teachers and we discuss TpT!

I must say I really loved making them as a FREEBIE to you all the say thank you for your continual support and encouragement.

If they are popular and well liked, I will consider making more including Rounding Tri Ominos! How exciting and confusing to plan and make to begin with! A VERRRYYY large piece of paper was needed!

Back to bolting on the 4m bearers to the Gazebo! :) Will post a picture soon!

 

4 NEW Multiplication Games & Flower Power FONT!

Oh my goodness! I was so excited to see Mel's - Graphics from the Pond FREE FlowerPower Font this morning that I sat down and began planning an item to upload! I've been looking for a very perky happy colour theme font to use and was very happy to know I could also colour them as I wanted which really brightened up my Multiplication board game!

I created 4 Multiplication games that a fun and engaging way for your little ones to practise their multiplication skills or 0, 1, 2, 4 and 8 times tables! Just print, laminate and add a spinner and you're ready to roll! Easy to read instructions and answer keys provided! 20% off for the first few days too!

New FALL Items!

I didn't realize until I linked up with the Happy Fall, Y'All Linky over at 2nd Grade Pad how many Fall resources I had actually created! I have 20% off most of my Fall items for another few days!
Go on over and check out 2nd Grade Pad for lots and lots of Fall Activities!

Fractions in Fall - Addition Cards with Board Game

Fall Fraction Dominoes

Halloween Decimal Rounding #2 - Rotation Cards

Fall Decimal Rounding #3 - Rotation Cards