Mardi Gras Mambo

Mardi Gras is in full swing here in Louisiana and our kids are lovin' it!  This week in ELA our skill is main idea and details in informational texts so I wrote up some Mardi Gras pocket books.  They have been busy highlighting those details and being awesome detectives.  Our school has a Mardi Gras Math Night and I wanted to put out some math work in the hallway.  This is what I came up with.

Today was a great day so we went outside to do our Science lesson.  We have been using a balance this week since our lessons have been on mass.  Today I let the kids make their own balances.  They LOVED it.  They measured everything they could once we got back inside.

In math we are in our Geometry unit.  Today we focused on parallel lines but when that was over I let the students make shapes on our Geoboards.  If you are short on cash, try these DIY Geoboards.  My students didn't mind at all.  Infact, they preferred the wooden ones over the plastic.

 

Hope everyone is having a fabulous work week!  I am pretty glad today is over.  Had a kid have diarrhea all over himself about 3 minutes after the bell rang first thing this am!!!! Yuck.

 

Britney G.