Taco Cat!

Some of the most memorable teaching moments are those that are totally unplanned....

Such is the case of Taco Cat!

​One of my students came to school with this shirt....

I commented, "I like your palindrome shirt!" to which the kids responded, "What's a palindrome???"

Let me tell ya, I love moments like these! I pulled out one of my favorite books (I have many!), Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog by Jon Agee, for our daily share. Some of the kids could give some examples of a palindrome, by the end, all the kids could. 

A palindrome is a word or phrase which is the same forwards and backwards. For example, noon is a palindrome. Noon spelled backwards is noon. Race car is a palindrome. And Taco Cat is a palindrome.

We even extended palindromes into math groups. Since we were studying addition in Math, for one of my higher math groups, we did some palindromic problems.

Here is an example:
~think of a number, for example, 75,
~reverse the number and then add those two numbers
                                                  75
                                  +57
                                  132
~reverse and add again until you get a palindrome
                                    132
                                +321
                                 363 
Yay, we got ourselves a palindrome!

It is always fun to go above and beyond!