Skip Counting Songs for Seven, Nine, and Twelve

Skip Counting by Seven

Melody: Mary Had a Little Lamb

Seven, fourteen, twenty-one--

Twenty-eight--, thirty-five--

Forty-two and forty-nine,

Counting through the sevens.

Then we jump to fifty-six,

Sixty-three--, seventy--

Seventy-seven, eighty-four,

That's how we count by sevens.

Skip Counting by Nine

Melody: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Nine---- eighteen, twenty-seven
Thirty-six and forty-five--.

Fifty-four and sixty-three--.

Seventy-two and eighty-one--.

Nine----ty, ninety nine, one-

Hundred and eight, now

Aint that fine?

Skip Counting by Twelve
Melody: “O Christmas Tree”

Twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six--,

Then forty-eight and sixty.

Then seventy-two and eighty four--,

Then ninety six, one-hundred eight.

One hundred twen----ty, (12 times 10)

One hundred thir---ty two and then,

It’s 12 times 12 to top the score to get

One hundred forty-four.

Prep Position Freeze Game

Turn on some lively music and move around. When the music stops, you must freeze in a prep position. Then you must tell what your preposition is. A prep position is any position that shows a preposition and includes an object. Here are some examples:

        Under the table

        Over the rug

        On the chair

        Against the wall

        Inside the box

        Beside the piano

        At the door

        With a friend

        Near the bench

Order of Operations song

We had fun learning the order of operations with a song we found online. Here's how it goes.

The Order of Operations

To the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know it”

The order of operations goes like this: (clap clap)

The order of operations goes like this: (clap clap)

The order of operations goes like this: (clap clap)

Parenthesis (arms up and curved in ballet style)

Power, (fisted arms representing power)

Multiply (arms crossed in front)

Divide, (left arm down to side; right arm bent at elbow and straight across chest)

Then you add (bring the left arm up perpendicular to the other to make a plus symbol)

And subtract (take the left arm away)

From left to right (right arm swings to the right)

Left to right! (clap clap)

Circles, Circumference, and Pi

When learning about circles, we first read the books:

"Sir Cumference and the First Round Table" and "Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi."  Then we measured the circumference, radius, and diameter of lids, plates, and embroidery hoops. Then the girls had to figure out how much ribbon would exactly go around a can by using those measurements.

Then we measured the circumference of an apple and figured out what the diameter would be if we cut it as shown in this picture. Then we measured to see if we were right.

Then we had fun with tortillas. The girls then folded over a tortilla to form a semicircle. Then we had to figure out how to find its perimeter. Then they folded it over again to make a quarter circle. Then they figured out how to find that perimeter. Then we learned how to find the perimeter when part of a circle is attached to another shape. We cut the quarter circle out and turned it around to make a square corner attached to the rest of the circle (like a tear drop). 

The best part of learning about pi was celebrating with real pie.

Triangle Fun

Sorting Triangles

The girls wrote each kind of triangle on a slip of paper and then they raced to sort different triangles into the right category.

Here are some silly ways we used to help them

remember each kind of triangle.

 

My daughter loved figuring out the missing angle measurement so all three angles added together were equal to 180 degrees. She didn't want to stop so she kept making up new triangle measurements even after she had completed all the ones in the book.

Triangle Hunt—Put these labels on the wall (Right, Isosceles, Scalene, and Equilateral). Cut out four of each kind on different colors of paper. Then hide them around the house. Let the children hunt for them and tape them on the wall under the correct label.

Pizza Angles

 One of the best, and funnest, ways to "internalize" a lesson about angles is to eat one. The girls had fun eating their angles. We started by cutting a round, pre-cooked pizza crust, into fourths, each having a 90 degree or right angle. Two of them put together were equal to 180 degrees, so they were supplementary angles.

We reinforced the concept of complementary angles (two angles whose measurement combined is equal to 90 degrees) by having the girls cut their 90 degree angle into two angles.  Then they got to put on their toppings. Yum, yum, yum!

 



Fun DNA, RNA, and Protein Assembly

We did this activity when we were learning the concept DNA makes RNA makes protein. Here's what we did. First, the girls had to find DNA cards that were hidden around the frontroom, or nucleus. Each card had a code that needed to be deciphered. Each card also had a copy of that code taped to it. When the girls found a DNA card, they put on an RNA hat and took the copy. Under the copy was written the way they had to transport the code to the Kitchen, which represented the ribosomes. As you can see, Jennifer had to transport it by crawling on her hands and feet and Jessica had to transport it by crouching down.

Next the girls had to translate the code by using the code translator card in the ribosomes (kitchen). Each code was an ingredient that would be used in our protein assembly cooking project.

After they translated all the cards then they collected the ingredients and put the cards next to them. Each code had a symbol next to it. On the recipe, the symbols were shown instead of the ingredient. So the girls had to figure out what the ingredient was by matching the symbols.  Finally, the girls got to assemble their

protein, which ended up being yummy peanut butter balls.

Geometry Fun With Points, Lines, and Angles



The girls made points with flat sprinkle dots. They liked the fact that they tasted good too. Then they labeled some of the points and connected them to make line segments. We also used spaghetti noodles to create and label line segments. In the above picture Jennifer has created two congruent line segments with noodles.

Next, we created points on a plane with the pins in this string art craft. The circle used as a pattern was a plane shape. The board was made by gluing corkboard between foam display board and covering with black felt.

   

Then we used embroidery floss to connect the points and made line segments and angles. The girls used their own ideas to make their designs. Below are their finished products. Pretty cool, huh?

Isolating the Variable in a fun way

Leave it Alone and Jump the Fence Game

(Isolating the Variable)

This is a game where in an equation, numbers are soldiers and variables are dangerous items. The equal or inequality sign are the fence. On one side of the fence is a number (a product, quotient, sum, or difference). On the other side is a variable expression--it includes the variable.

Preparation

Use 3x5 blank cards. Fold them in half the short way. Then use them to write out an equation, and then put separate equations together with a paper clip. Prepare the cards in this way:

Variable Cards
On each one, write a variable letter on the outside. On the inside, write a description of a dangerous item.  (See the list below for the ones we used)
Sargeant Cards
Write the sum or difference on one side of this folded card.
Soldier Cards
Write the number in the variable expression on one side of this folded card.
Operation Identification Cards
Write the operation of the equation on one side of this folded card. On the other side (not the inside) write the inverse or opposite operation (if one side is + the other side is --.
Fence Cube
On each side of a cube or square Kleenex box, write or tape a card on each side with a plus or minus sign or a greater than or less than sign.

How to Play

Pick a set of equation cards and set them up with the fence cube so the equation is the way it should be like this:

Example: x+16=30.

In this example, the number 30 is the Sargeant who asks Soldier 16, "What have you found? Then the child looks inside the variable card and reads the description of what it is.  Then Sargeant says "Leave it alone!" The child then has to take the "16" card and the Operation ID card and jump the fence to the other side where the Sargeant is. In doing so, the Operation ID card flips around so the inverse operation shows. Then the cards are set up like this:

x=30-16.

Now the equation can be solved.

Dangerous Variable Cards

C= crouching cougar

Q= queen bee

A= angry ants

R= rattlesnake

W= wicked warrier with a weapon

N= nasty newt

H= horrible hogs

D= deadly dragons

P= poisonous plants

Y= yellow jackets

M= mean monsters

T= terrible termites

Dry Ice Science

First we dropped a few pieces of dry ice in water.

Then we added some dish soap and watched the bubbles erupt. 

Then we created a giant bubble by putting dry ice in water in a bowl. Then we slid a strip of cloth, soaked in soapy water, across the top to create a soap film that collected the gas. The result was amazing.