The 3rd Week!  I finally feel like things are starting to get in a groove.  Which is nice.  I hope you are experiencing a similar feeling.  If not, then hopefully real soon.

I am excited for this week's objectives!!  I'll be teaching Properties.  I love teaching properties, and the kiddos really enjoy it too.  What makes teaching properties fun are the awesome videos found on YouTube.

My favorite video is by Mr. Q-U-E.  We will be watching this one many times this week.     

Here is the other video I show students.  The girls are pretty silly, but I still like it.



If you have any videos that you use in class, please let me know.  I love incorporating videos into my lessons.

I will be having my first test this Friday.  My test is going to cover everything that we have worked on in the last three weeks: Classifying Number, Absolute Value, Ordering Integers, Plotting Integers on a number line, Properties, and Representing situations using Integers.

Here are some worksheets that I will be using throughout the week,

Identifying Properties Worksheet
Properties Practice
Properties Start to Finish I've not used this worksheet before, but I found it in my Properties file.  I will warn there is a mistake on D.  The expression should be set = to 42 not 56.
Properties Quiz  I think this is a quiz that I used a couple of years ago.  I figured I would include it anyway.  Feel free to use as you wish.

I found this awesome blogger while spending time on internet.  She has a lot of examples of foldables/flippables that she uses in her INB, interactive notebook.  I plan on making a 4 four door flippable with the Associative, Commutative, Distributive, and Identity even though Identity is not required.  I still like to cover it. The flippable template is in her blog.  I also like the Request to Retest document that she has.  I think I'm going to use it.  In theory, I don't believe in redo's.  I know that may sound bad, but that's how life is.  Sometimes you only get one shot at things.  But when it comes to learning I think it is an appropriate thing to do.  The student has to attach proof that they tried to master the objective, that's the part that I REALLY like.  In the end, students need to learn the objectives before TCAP.  If a student follows through with the request, then I am alright with redoing a test.

I will try to get pictures up in the next day or two of my properties flippable.  I also found this foldable activity that may be of help. I like questions that is included with it.  It has given me new ideas to ask the students about properties. I would show you what last year's journal entry looks like, but to be quite honest, it wasn't that great.  I want to do a better one this year.  I want this year's to look more like this (minus the property of zero) I hope you can find something useful in this blog entry.

I hope you have a great week!
Jenn