Pizza Curse

Are you Hungry? Welcome to the Pizza Curse!

Standards:

MA.4.1.6 2000:

Name and write mixed numbers, using objects or pictures.

CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.B.3a:

Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.

Objective:

Using manipulatives, students will demonstrate their understanding of mixed numbers by completing given problem solving questions.

Activity Description: This is in an interactive bulletin board that is designed to encourage the students to learn about fractions.  

Directions: In the form of a Menu

Appetizer: Take a coupon from the coupon slot.

Salad: Read the pizza problem.

Main Dish: Work it out on the cutting board and use the pizzas to find the answer.

Side Dish: Write your answer on the back of the card.

Dessert: Check your answer at the hostess table.

Examples of exemplary literature to include:

Still Hungry?

http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_improper.html

http://www.mathsisfun.com/mixed-fractions.html

http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html

http://www.jsworldwide.com/index.html

"Sense"ational Science

"Sense"ational Science

 Science and Literacy Bulletin Board

Students will get ready to think like Einstein and explore the five senses!

Standards

1.1.1  -  Use all senses as appropriate to identify the component parts of objects and the materials from which they are made.
1.3.5  -  Understand what is read by responding to questions (who, what, when, where, why, how).

Objective:
Students will demonstrate their understanding of the book Meet Einstein by practicing the science of questioning through the use of their senses.

Description:
After having read Meet Einstein as a class, students will participate in active learning at each of the sense-stations on the board. For sight, students will test their visual skill by trying to find Waldo in Where's Waldo. For taste, students will take an item from each sack and determine whether the taste is sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. For smell, students will smell 4 different candles and determine what the difference scents are. For hearing, students will try to sort the containers from least to greatest based on the sound of beans in the container. For touch, students will place their hand in each sack and, without looking, try to determine what object they are feeling. After completing each task and documenting it on the provided worksheet, students can scan the QR code on the door to check their answers. Students may also scan the QR code on the board to access a recipe they can make at home using their senses.

Exemplary Literature

"Sense"ational QR Codes

http://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-search/kid-recipes/hot-dog-pizza-dillas

Materials

• Bulletin Board/Door
• Background paper 
• Scotch Tape
• Wire hangers (book holders)
• Recipe (QR Code)
• Manilla Envelope
• Worksheet
• Markers
• Di-Cuts
• Einstein
• Cardboard
• Duct Tape
• Something white/fuzzy for hair
• Pens
• Rubber Gloves
• Goggles
• Shirt
• Pants
• Felt
• Hot Glue/Hot Glue Gun
• Photo of Einstein
• Sight
• Where's Waldo book
• Post-It Note
• Taste
• Jolly Ranchers
• Cry Babies
• Dark Chocolate
• Peanut Butter Crackers
• 4 brown lunch sacks
• Smell
• Candles
• 4 Mini tupperware containers
• Velcro hooks
• Duct Tape
• Construction Paper
• Hearing
• Beans
• 5 Mini tupperware containers
• Velcro hooks 
• Black spray paint
• Construction Paper
• Touch
• Toothbrush
• Pens
• Cotton Balls
• Hot Wheel Car
• Sunglasses
• 5 brown lunch sacks

CAN WE PLAY TOO?

A Health and Literature Cross-curricular Bulletin Board

Elephant and Piggie are ready to get healthy by being active everyday!

Standard: HW.1.7.1 2007 Describe healthy practices to maintain personal health and wellness.

Objective: Students will use the Elephant, Piggie, and sports equipment cut-outs to simulate and practice the types of physical activity in which they can personally engage.

Activity description: The bulletin board features Elephant and Piggie from Mo Willems’s award winning books, as well as a variety of cut-outs with Velcro of sports equipment such as a soccer ball, a skateboard, roller skates, a basketball, a jump rope, etc. If possible, the physical equipment items will also be included near the board. The students will place the equipment on Elephant and Piggie and then use the real equipment to play.

Examples of exemplary literature to include:

QR code for http://www.pigeonpresents.com/