Nature Journaling to a Calm, More Connected Class Community
If you are a frequenter of my blog, you know that I am always reinventing the wheel. I have taught 3rd grade for 12 years now but every year I switch things up because...
Category: Science
Standards Based Portfolios in My Classroom
Welcome to my blog! I wanted to return with an update on how our standards-based portfolios are going. If you missed my initial post about this, you can check it out here. First some...
Soil Investigations!
It’s soil time! This week we started our soil unit in science. This unit has the possibility of being super fun or super boring. I made a soil study booklet last year when I...
FREE student led Earth Day discussion
I’m linking up! Head over to Sunny Days in Second Grade to see the many, many Earth Day Freebies. The freebie I am offering is a student led discussion guide for Earth Day....
Science Notebooking: Animal Adaptations
My students and I had a blast with our animal adaptations unit! The students loved being able to look at pictures, watch videos, and learn facts about real animals that they are interested in....
Symbaloo Who?
So I may have been living under a rock for the past couple months because I jsut discovered Symbaloo. It is a visually amazing bookmarking site that I have already thought of many uses...
Science Notebooking is FUN!
Okay so we are officially done with our first science unit, Simple Machines. I have been kinda lax on posting lately, school has been keeping me super busy, but I really wanted to...
The Important Book: Fun End of Year Review Activity & Freebie
Hello All! I’ve created a fun end of the year review activity to help students prepare for the SOL tests (SOL-standards of learning are the big tests students must take in Virginia). I plan...
Book Spotlight: Sciezka & Smith
So by now you may know how I love fun picture books with colorful illustrations that support content. Today I want to share two books by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith that support science...
Newsletter Linky Party
The Brand New Pencil is hosting a linky party to see what other teachers are using for newletters. I don’t use a newsletter, per se. My grade level does homework packets instead of nightly...
