Monday, January 3rd--
Happy Monday! Welcome back! I hope that you had an amazing vacation and that you are rested and ready to go for the next 8 weeks! I am excited to be back, are you?
Today, the holiday fun will continue. The food item for today is Chocolate Covered Cherries. Are you a fan? Can you work with the recipe?
Monday means sports. The Patriots secure a playoff spot with a 50-10 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Mac Jones completes 22 of his 30 attempted passes for a total of 227 yards. We will discuss.
January 3rd is also National Drinking Straw day. We will check out some world records, discuss Unit Price, and more.
Algebraic Puzzles, fractions, decimals, percentages, estimation, positive and negative numbers, and more!
Have an awesome day!
Tuesday, January 4th--
Happy Tuesday, I hope that you will make it another great day!
Today, we will celebrate National Spaghetti Day. Did you know that the average person in Italy eats more than 51 pounds of pasta each year? To celebrate, we will check out a recipe for Quick & Easy One-Pot taco Spaghetti. Are you a fan? Can you work with the recipe?
Speaking of Spaghetti, Matt Stonie likes Spaghetti. How much can he eat in one minute? We will find out. We will also discuss his appearance at the World Pasta Eating Championship in 2015, where he ate10 pounds of spaghetti in 8 minutes.
The Pricing Game this week is the Grocery Game. After 233 documented playings it has been won 79 times. We will watch and discuss.
Algebraic Puzzles, fractions, decimals, percentages, estimation, positive and negative numbers, and more!
Have an awesome day!
Wednesday, January 5th--
Happy Wednesday! Let's make it another great day!
Today, we celebrate National Whipped Cream Day. To celebrate, we will check out a recipe for Brownie Trifle, an item that contains whipped cream. Are you a fan? Can you work with the recipe?
Speaking of whipped cream, there is a record for the most whipped cream portraits drawn in 2 minutes...there is also a record for drinking Reese's whipped cream..12 cans. How long?
Number lines...can you identify a point on a number line?
World records...flaming whip cracks & pull-ups.
Algebraic Puzzles, fractions, decimals, percentages, estimation, positive and negative numbers, and more!
Have an awesome day!
Thursday, January 6th--
I hope that you are having a great week so far. Are you ready for some more holiday fun?
Each year, we celebrate National Shortbread Day on January 6th....the recipe for today is Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Shortbread Cookies. Are you a fan? Can you work with the recipe?
It is also Bean Day. Speaking of beans, Joey Chestnut participated in a Red Beans and Rice eating contest in 2020. How much did he eat in 8 minutes? We will find out?
Let's learn about the distributive property as well....
Maybe some pricing fun, algebraic puzzles, fractions, decimals, percentages, estimation, positive and negative numbers, and more!
Have a great day!
Friday, January 7th--
Remote Learning Day...I look forward to seeing you during class as we will discuss Toffee, The Harlem Globetrotters, Estimation, and more!
Have a great weekend!