Tried It Tuesday- Fraction Tiles and Car Organization Thirty One Style

 I am linking up with Fourth Grade Flipper for Tried it Tuesday! I'm very proud of myself because I'm actually writing on Tuesday! Ya'll just don't understand.... Today my Principal stopped by my room, and gave me a hug (she's just that kind of awesome about that stuff), and told me I looked very pretty today and that something looked different. It was that I have had SLEEP! All the snow days have allowed me to catch up on SLEEP. So here I am, blogging ON TIME :)

First -- for my Tried it Tuesday, I organized the backseat of my truck. Now - the hubs and I don't have any two legged children, but I do drive my niece to school every day, so M-F she is in the backseat. I am in LOVE with the new spring patterns and organization that Thirty One has. With all this snow the south has been seeing, I really want to be ready if I ever get stranded in my truck. So, check out my organizing solutions! 

Now -- on to school things. I'm STILL on my fraction unit. I should be on to graphs, but I CAN'T do that because we have only had ONE full week since Christmas. Since we have lost so many days, I have to condense some lessons. I usually do a comparing fraction introduction that last 2-3 days where students use fraction tiles to make comparisons with like denominators and unlike denominators. We always use the tiles, and just do some illustrations on paper. I knew that I needed a VERY structured lesson to get my kiddos through this lesson in half the time. I created a worksheet to guide my students through comparing fractions using the tiles. I have students trace the fraction tiles onto the paper because this is an easy transition to drawing their own fraction bars. My students LOVED the structure and organization of this lesson, and they did awesome. (This wasn't their first experience with fraction tiles - and it won't be their last!) I am so excited to move into drawing their own fraction bars tomorrow. Check out a few samples of my student work below:

Best of all -- this Comparing Fractions printable is available for only $1 in my TpT Store! 

Check out all of the link ups in the Tried It Tuesday over at Fourth Grade Flipper!

Tried It Tuesday-- Snow Day Style!

I'm linking up with Fourth Grade Flipper for Tried It Tuesday!

Today is our 6th snow day this month!! I love a good snow day like anyone, but I really need to be in school teaching my kiddos!! We are SOOOO far behind! Sooo....for my "Tried It Tuesday", I'm going to share something I did at HOME that was COMPLETELY unrelated to school. I taught myself how to knit!

My Nanny (grandmother) taught me how to crochet when I was about 8 or 9 during a few LONG winter snowstorms, but all of the beautiful scarves I see are always for KNITTING. I bought my yarn at AC Moore, because 1)They had a 20% coupon off any item. 2) I could also use my teacher discount there! I choose to purchase Lion's Brand Yarn (my aunt who knits and my Nanny had ALWAYS used this yarn for ANYTHING they crocheted or knitted.) in the Hometown USA Aspen Tweed, which is a great thick yarn. I set to work with my needles, and it wasn't so easy going at first. I thought I was doing great until I realized I had accidently dropped a few loops here and there (which can cause your ENTIRE project to come undone, but I just took some yarn and sewed it together real quick! After a few hours of watching some videos on YouTube to make sure I was doing everything right, and watching my recordings of Real Housewives of Atlanta (I know it's not quality TV-- BUT --- It's FUN to watch!! If rich people don't have their life all together, then I don't feel so bad about being poor and not having mine together either haha). After you finish the length of your scarf, you cast off and use yarn to stitch together the two ends to make an infinity scarf.  Here's Yolo modeling said scarf: 

Now remember -- she has like an 18 inch neck! haha -- so it's actually looser on me! 

Another "Tried it Tuesday" was a sock bun. Now - I haven't been THAT out of the loop- but I haven't done a sock bun since I cut my hair two years ago. (Like...16 inches). Although my hair almost touches my shoulders, It's too short for the regular sock bun, until I saw a super cute way on pinterest....it's SO easy-- all you do is put the sock onto your ponytail  and wrap your hair around it, and secure with a hair tie. That's all!  I rocked it yesterday to work - and having my hair up ALL day didn't even give me a headache. I  almost wish I hadn't discovered this hairstyle-- because it's too easy! I might just wear it EVERY day! 

Hopefully we can get back to school SOMETIME this week. Enjoy your snow if you have it! :)