– Teaching Integer Multiplication & Division – Squares & Square Roots Paperless BINGO Game – Number Theory Bundle (covers divisibility, prime factorization, gcf & lcm) – Using the Cake Method to find the GCF & LCM of 3 Numbers – Teaching GCF & LCM Using the Cake Method – Improving Number Sense with the Divisibility Rules If you are looking for ideas & resources for these first couple of units, you may want to check out the following: I will likely make a few changes to it this year, but overall I was pretty happy my sequencing last year. ![]() ![]() If you are curious as to how I structure my year, you can check out my scope & sequences in this blog post. The divider tabs pictured are for my first and second units in 7th grade. I am excited to see how these work out this year. To keep the binders neat, my plan is to have students empty out their classwork & homework sections after each unit so that they do not accumulate too much junk. Then all the students need to do is stick them in their binders – easy peasy! I will copy the dividers, cut off the excess from the side with a paper cutter (which will leave me with lots of little pieces of bookmark-sized scrap paper, which I will definitely use), and hole punch them. I also like that there is absolutely NO cutting & gluing required for students. I am alternating using the top 2 rings and the bottom 2 rings so that the tabs are staggered. Here are some pictures of my new divider tabs. It only spans across 2 of the rings in the binder, but that should be enough. I can’t just use a regular piece of paper as a divider because it isn’t big enough to stick out the side as a tab, so I turned the paper sideways and cut it down to 9 inches wide to make my new binder dividers. So, I am in the process of remaking my dividers for binders. I figured there was no sense in having students glue the notebook dividers onto paper this year since you can put whatever paper you want into binders thanks to their 3 rings. YES! But, I’m doing them differently with the binders this year. I am not a big fan of notes that require a lot of folding, cutting, and pasting.Īm I still doing the divider tabs that I loved so much last year? Their notes will mainly be a combination of basic notes taken on looseleaf paper and fill-in guided notes that I have created. The front notes section is where they will actually take their notes each day. The classwork section is just for looseleaf/graph paper for students to write out work on or classwork worksheets. My plan is to run off all of the homework assignments for a unit at the beginning of the unit this year and give them to students in a packet, to put in the homework section. The front section will be for notes, the second section will be for classwork, and the third will be for homework. This year I will need to give worksheets as homework assignments since I won’t have workbooks, so I thought binders would be better given the increased number of handouts students will have this year.Įach student will have a ½ inch binder with 2 dividers (to split the binder into 3 sections). In the past, I have typically assigned workbook pages as homework most nights. ![]() However, my school is switching to a new textbook series this year that doesn’t come with a workbook. I have loved using the 3-subject notebooks because they worked perfectly for my needs. I have used binders in the past but switched to 3-subject notebooks years ago because the binders seemed too bulky. This year, however, I will be switching to binders so I am planning to make some changes. That was a WONDERFUL addition to our notebooks! I loved having them for multiple reasons – it kept the books more organized, helped students find their page faster, told students EXACTLY what lessons they needed to have in their notebooks to get full credit for their notes, and made grading notebooks a breeze. Last year I wrote about how I was planning to organize student notebooks with divider tabs. With school starting in just one month (YIKES!) it’s time to start planning and preparing for the year ahead.
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