Making Learning Fun!! Geometry Lesson!

I love to have fun and I am so thankful that I love my job.  Learning should be fun.  However, there is no denying that some things are just sucky and boring to teach. Yeah I said it.  Judge Me. LOL!  However, that is why when an opportunity presents itself to be fun, we must seize it. During a geometry lesson in which I was teaching my students lines of symmetry, how to distinguish quadrilaterals, and understanding what it means to be congruent and similar I incorporated Little Debbie snacks.   For students to be able to eat their snack they had to correctly stand when I called out certain characteristics that their Little Debbie had.  Also they had to compare and contrast (incorporating their ELA knowledge) their Little Debbie to that of their elbow partner.  This was so fun. Students even stepped it up a notch and transformed their shape to that of something else and explained how it was now different and now had more similarities to their elbow partners.  Students did a wonderful job explaining the angles and degrees of their Little Debbie (identifying it as acute, obtuse, or right/less than 90 degrees or more etc).  It they identified it as being a quadrilateral, they were able to explain why, and if not etc. This lesson also builds their constructed response skills.  I want my students to speak their knowledge.  Ex. Versus saying a rectangle and a square are the same because they have four corners, they could identify that they both have 90 degree angles.  Please see pictures below