Math is Real Life- November

I have wanted to participate in this linky for some time, but never have gotten around  to it until now. 

For Halloween, we invited our baseball team and their families over. I had over 60 people in my house. It was chaos for a while. I was thinking about 50 or so, and with two kids not showing, I knew we'd be okay. We always do this to ourselves too. But of course, I wouldn't have it any other way. We love our home being the "go to home". 

I decided to make mummy dogs and serve witches brew. Each guest is asked to bring something to share. We always have tons of food and left overs too. 

First, the witches brew: I just wanted something green for them to drink and found this cute hat to go with it. If I had been more clever (and not sick last week, I would have done a face, but oh well) All it includes is Welch's Watermelon juice and 7 Up. Easy and yummy! 

As the hostess though, I feel I have to make sure we have enough food, just in case. 

Normally we have BBQ's and when I buy hot dogs I have the old age problem of buying enough buns since hot dog packages and hot dog buns are not sold with the same number in each.

For mummy dogs though, I was using crescent rolls. 

I set out to get the hot dogs... 

I got 4 packages of 16, 64 hot dogs. I figured this would be enough because not everyone eats hot dogs and there would be other food as well. 

To my surprise, our HEB (it's a Texas thing) had a wonderful coupon for FREE smokies when you bought the big package of hot dogs. I got these for FREE!!! Each package is $3.98, a savings of $15.92!!! You know I was happy about that!!! 

My husband has a recipe for "drunken weenies", always a big hit with the adult crowd. 

(yes, only adults. The name means exactly what you think) And when I told him they were FREE, he was even happier to make them. 

So, after scoring big in the meat section, I head off to get enough crescents. 

JACKPOT! I have 64 hot dogs and crescents come in rolls of 8!!!!  

This could not have been easier for me. 

In my head, I was thinking one roll per hot dog. 

In reality, that is not what I needed.

I cut the crescents in strips, so I had plenty. 

The end product, well, one plate of the end product. 

Notice that our mummies are blind. We don't do condiments at our house so I didn't have mustard. No one seemed to mind. As a matter of fact, I actually had to open a hot dog package that I had in my fridge for my kids. So instead of making 64 mummy dogs, I made 72 mummy dogs and only used 6 of the crescent packages. There was no need for me to stress about having enough. I am  thankful we didn't run out though. The mummy dogs were a hit with EVERYONE, adults and kids! 

Be sure to link up and check out all the posts 

A monthly REAL WORLD math blog link-up hosted by

 4mulaFun, The Teacher Studio, Teaching to Inspire in 5th, AND MissMathDork,

Tried it Tuesday- Relays for Halloween

This is how I survived Halloween in middle school last week. 

First, I was comfy all day in my jammies! 

Our students are allowed to dress up and some teachers participate as well. Here are just a few... 

There were more, I just didn't get many pictures. 

And now for  my tried it with Holly at Fourth Grade Flipper  

At CAMT this year, I bought this: 

This was one of the many AWESOME activities included: 

 

Spooky Integer Relay from Miss Math Dork

Perfect since we just finished integers! 

If you don't know about Miss Math Dork's relays, they are awesome! They are designed for groups of 4 (some of mine were groups of 3, but we made it work) Each round has a question for each student to complete, so all students are working, ALL the time. Love that about this activity! For each round, one student will draw a portion of the end picture. Groups work at their own pace, which is also very nice. This was so much fun. Not one "monster" was the same for any of  my groups. 

Here are the students working together to solve the problems. 

Here's a few of them drawing.... 

These are ALL the final products! The names at the top are their team names for the day. 

Some of my take a ways from this activity: 

• My students need to learn how to work better in groups. I was kind of shocked by some of the mean comments made about each other's drawings. We had a few "life lessons" talk throughout the day. 
• I have some great artists in my classes 
• Vocabulary is huge! My students didn't know what a "torso" was. Great teachable moments happened with this activity. 
• My students had F-U-N! and they were pretty vocal about it too. I love that they had fun and were able to practice some math skills on a wild day anyway! 

Be sure to check out all Miss Math Dork's Relays! I will definitely being trying more with my students! 

The Foot Bone Connects to the Ankle Bone...

... n' the ankle bone connects to the leg bone ' the leg bone connects to the knee bone... 

HAHAHA! Remember that song? You can here it here, 

My son's school has a science vocabulary parade for Halloween every year. 

Last year he was a cloud. 

This year, he was a skeleton! 

Thanks to eskeleton.org, I was able to download and print a close to life size set of bones. 

Here he is:

 Here's my cuteness! 

Honestly, I really love this idea. I think it is a great way to keep Halloween educational and great visuals for kids. 

As a mom, I stress, because I am a procrastinator and we all know this is a parent project!!!  

How does  your school support Science Vocabulary?