Who doesn’t love some good ol’ punkin chuckin? Or the more official term of Pumpkin Catapults? I LOVE watching kiddos design and build catapults. I usually use this STEM activity to kick off STEM Friday’s in my classroom. Tomorrow we…
It’s no secret that I am a fan of legos and the plethora of activities they lend themselves too. Honestly, what can you NOT do with legos??? When I saw Amy Lemon’s Lego Olympic activity I knew I had…
Writing is always the subject at the top of my list of things to improve on. Teaching writing is tricky to little people. Another area that I struggle with is remembering to keep track of writing samples through the year….
A huge part of Shark Week was the Shark Stem activities. I am so glad I implemented these this year. One of the challenges was to make a shark cage with a specific set of materials provided that can hold…
I just love a craftivity because it’s hard to find time for “just art.” That is why I absolutely love doing glyphs with my kiddos. My primary source of glyph stuff is from The Glyph Girls. They have so many…
The last week of school is so exciting but TOUGH! This year I used Amy Lemon’s End of the Year Engagement unit to attempt to hold the littles attention and still keep ’em learning. They loved it. One of the…
Once my kiddos had finished up their shark research it was time to put that research into presentation form. I decided to do that via Google slides and Google Classroom. I pushed the entire slide show out to all the…
One of the kiddos’ favorite part of Shark Week is becoming shark experts. Well, better shark experts. They already fancy themselves experts. I decided to partner the kids up and assign a shark to each pair of students. I was…
Shark Week is becoming a must do every year. The kids LOVE it. I looped with my current class from first grade to second. I needed to bring in some new Shark Week ideas to keep the content fresh. I…
I’m back with more Rockstar goodness. In addition to the Rockstar self portraits I had the kiddos do a Rockstar Profile in Google Slides. This was super, duper fun!!! The kids took a selfie and then filled out the…
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