Free Time Guilty Pleasure(s)

        If you are like me embarking on "testing season" you may be thinking . . . free time, what is that?!?  But I think that it is important that we remain strong and keep/find a hobby, even if it is a guilty pleasure.  I have mine.  It is General Hospital.  I have been watching since the mid-nineties.  I actually (sadly) scheduled my classes in college around my show. That's right, I actually avoided classes that took place between 3-4 p.m.  So I am wondering, what you do to unwind after a long and/or stressful day?  Do you have a guilty pleasure?  Do you watch soaps? steal library books (like Jennifer Garner's character in Catch and Release)?  bake?  scrapbook?  or something else altogether?  Even in all of the stress that we are under I think that we should take time to remember to take care of ourselves and have a little fun!

Fractions

        We are in the middle of our fraction unit in math.  My students did very well with the basics.  But now . . . ahhh!  They are having a hard time grasping the concept of equivalent fractions when they have to reduce (although I am not actually calling it that).  Any thoughts???  I will try anything!