PI DAY 2015 - Motivating Kids!

Wahoooooo It's finally here! 

I have been so excited about this Pi Day for a while. Not because it so EPIC, but because we were actually in school so we could celebrate it!!!! 

Normally we are on Spring Break. 

So, Friday the 13th, became Pi Day in our class!!! If I could I would have them come on the 3/14, but Saturday? Nah.... 

I finally got to wear my shirt I ordered months ago!!! 

I decorated my white board with these freebies. 

And made stickers for each of my students. 

I have Moon Pi's for all my students!!! 

I made them find the circumference and area before they could eat it. 

Their warm up was to graph their favorite P-I-E! 

Since we just finished our statistics unit, this fit right in!!! 

Chocolate pie won, and next was other because I didn't add pecan pie as an option. 

I will add that next year. 

And now, how I motivated them to be excited about Pi. 

I gave them the Pi Memorization Challenge last week from Teaching Math by Hart. Each class had a winner and then the grand champion! 

This was fun! I am very proud of their hard work! 

The prizes:

The winners: 

Grand Champion with 51 numbers!!! 

She received a FREE Pizza Pie!!! 

Had to get one with all of them! 

Girl Power! 

I told my students if they attempted it, I would make it extra credit. I had 61% of my students attempt. I thought it was a pretty good "turn out".

We actually did a few more things, but they are not complete, I will post about that later though. 

Pi Day was loads of fun and I just hope my kiddos remember it and remember that Pi is important!

Be sure to link up with Joanne for how you motivate kids!  

Pi Day Cuteness- Just for Fun

This is my youngest. This was two years ago. 

We aren't in school on Pi Day, so I involve my own kids. 

I found these and thought they were so cute. 

Happy Pi Day! 

Tried it Tuesday- Pi Edition

I'm on Spring Break! 

I am sharing an activity I tried last year. 

We aren't in school on Pi Day (3-14), we are always on Spring Break. It kind of stinks for having a fun "Math Day Theme".  We also don't teach circles around this time, so we have actually already completed this activity this year. 

I created this activity last year when I taught circles. I had to have something fun. My kids loved it, except they said it made them hungry. 

Click here to get this activity free. 

Last year we also blew bubbles to find circumference and area of circles.  This was super fun! 

Click here for a free bubble recording sheet. 

Pi Day- With 6th Graders- Link Parade

I am going a bit link happy here!

So much great stuff going on in the blog world, I don't want to miss out!


One:
One of my classes is a Math lab and we are studying circles. Perfect for finally getting Pi Day celebrated since we were on spring break last week.

We have read both books about Sir Circumference.
We have played games and measured fake food. Click here to read that post and get that lesson for FREE! (keep reading there's another freebie)

So, today, we blew bubbles!!! We made circles and found the diameter, radius, circumference and area!

 This is harder than it looks. You have to add food coloring for them to show up. I also added dish soap to make it more bubbly.

 These were the finished products.

 After making the bubbles, and a mess, they had to measure the diameter of six of their bubbles. Then they had to find the radius, the area and the circumference. They filled out this recording sheet. (Another FREEBIE)

It was pretty fun! Plus, we made pretty art and I hung them on my door for decorations.

Two:
My husband booked our summer trip to Vegas!

Three:
Monday, I had "weigh-out" for a weight loss challenge I was part of with my Zumba class. I worked really hard the previous week, attended 3 classes in one week and it paid off. (plus the previous eight weeks) On Wednesday, I found out I won 3rd place!!!! I was so excited!

Four:
I am seriously considering teaching summer school this summer for the first time in 17 years! Am I crazy? I haven't because I have kids and I LOVE LOVE LOVE summer break. But, my kids and I need routines and I am not a structured person.It's half days, Mon-Thurs for five weeks. Plus, the $$$ is soooo good, and I would love to have some spending $$ for #3. My good friend also offered to keep my kids for me so I wouldn't have the added expense of day care. That final decision will come soon.

 

Five:
Baseball season started for us. I love this time of year, even though my life gets even busier!

 Thanks for making to the end....

Happy Linky!!

Happy Pi Day!

Math Geeks Unite! 

It's 3-14... National Pi Day!

 

I so wish we were in school for this day, but since we are not, my lucky 7 and 3 year old get to celebrate Pi Day with me. I did this last year too. They loved it, even though they had no idea what Pi is. You can check that out here.

1st: Apple Jacks for breakfast

 2nd: Mommy read them this book

3rd: We had circle sandwiches!

                                        

                                                                

4th: I just purchased Miss Math Dork Pi package and I am getting it ready for Monday to use with my class. Click here to get your own.

                                   

5th: I ran 3.14 miles... my treadmill didn't show it though, so I have 3.17  :( I did this last year too and this year I ran much faster. That made me feel good!

6th: At 3:14 on the clock, we made circular bubbles. I am actually doing this with my students next week too. Luckily I found an art site that had how to color bubble solution and get the bubbles to show up. My boys loved this.

7th: This is on my wish list. I seriously want this. It was sold on March 6th. Wah!

Today is a fun way to celebrate Math.

Can't to see all the fun ways others celebrated this day!