Super cool new hands trick for multiplication, freebie, and winners!

Congrats to Gina and Tara for winning my Polar Express Packet!

I will be emailing you soon with your prize! I know many of you were interested in winning this packet! So just a way of saying thank you for all the compliments, I will be having my Polar Express Theme Packet on sale  through Saturday for...20% off at my TPT shop! Go snag it up today while it is on sale!

So, browsing Pinterest last night, I found this AWESOME, AMAZING, really COOL YouTube video with a new hands trick for multiplication! You have to check this out if you teach multiplication...

I was in shock! I think this is super cool. So I scratched my lesson plans for today, and jumped right in with teaching this trick! Here are some pictures from today!

I had them create a poster! They had to do the same thing the guy did in the video. 

Here they are using the trick!

And more kids using the trick

And this was a final poster. I also had them write down each set of multiplication facts and solve each one using the new trick! They LOVED this. 

So what did I do??? After the gym, I came home right away and made a poster to display in the classroom! 

  If you are interested in this poster, you can get it here for FREE! All I ask is you just leave some love:) I really enjoy reading every single comment; it means SO much to me!  I can't help but feel a bit sad that no one commented on my Bully Video:( The kids and I worked very hard on that, and out of the 50 people who viewed that blog post, no one commented:( 

My principal, guidance councilor , RTI teacher and literacy coach all came in yesterday and watched it with my class. They were amazed with the video. My Principal actually is forwarding it to his boss and the superintended! YIKES! He even wants me to show it at the next staff meeting! If you didn't get a chance to watch it, please check it out here or this link I have on YouTube.  Well, that's it for today! 

I hope to see you all again later this week!