STEM

November is packed with many great themes and units and great learning. It’s also packed with great read-alouds for the classroom. One of our favorite November read-alouds is Balloons Over…

It’s Schedulin Sunday! This week we’re continuing to introduce centers, focusing on procedures and routines, pulling small groups, and learning about apples, and reading Last Stop On Market Street! Lesson…

Every year, we try to make changes to make our classroom better for our kids. Each year we make 1 big change and lots of smaller changes. This year, our…

Happy Schedulin’ Sunday! This week we’re kicking off our Community Helpers Research Project, we’re celebrating Johnny Appleseed’s birthday with Apple Day and we’re introducing addition to 5! Community Helpers Lesson…

I am always looking for ways to engage my students at all levels.  That means I am always looking for games and activities that can challenge my students.  This is…

Happy Schedulin’ Sunday!  This week we are continuing our two week gingerbread unit using READ IT UP: Gingerbread Man with a focus on Gingerbread STEM lessons!  We are making family…

As a teacher, I am always looking for areas to improve on.  I am always looking at data and my students to see where my teaching can serve them better. …

My class is obsessed with stacking cups.  Anytime I put a stacking cups activity in our centers, they go crazy for them!  So why not keep using something that engages…

Last year I made a cup stacking activity for our math centers.  The cups were labeled 1-100 and the students had to stack them and count to 100.  They.  were.…

Counting to 100 and numbers to 100 can be a challenge for many of our students.  We have the goal that by the 100th day of school everyone will be…