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March 18, 2018 by: Jennifer

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Three Billy Goats Gruff:  The third of my fairytale book companion and STEAM packs is my favorite so far.  Included in the pack is a troll craft, STEM activity, writing activities, and more.   My students love fairytales!  You can find this Book Companion on TpT. Here are some pictures of activities from the week: The trolls came out so

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Filed Under: fairytale, STEM, The Three Billy Goats Gruff Tagged With: fairytales, STEAM

May 21, 2017 by: Jennifer

Jack and the Beanstalk Activities

Jack and the Beanstalk Activities Jack and the Beanstalk Activities:  Kids love fairytales and who doesn’t like the classic, Jack and the Beanstalk? The unit includes ideas to use with the book that includes writing, reading, science, reader’s theater, retell, and a little math.  My kinders had a great week! The unit begins by creating a beanstalk with yarn from the ceiling.  I twisted bulletin

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Filed Under: fairytale, STEM, Uncategorized Tagged With: fairytales, jack and the beanstalk, literature

March 29, 2015 by: Jennifer

Water Walk Experiment FREEBIE and Bumblebees Close Read

I love bringing science into my classroom and this was an activity that I originally saw over at Coffee Cups and Crayons.  I used this activity to explain capillary action (Capillary action is the process that plants use to pull water up from the ground.)  I begin the activity by asking my students if they think I could make water move from one cup to the

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January 18, 2015 by: Jennifer

PENGUINS, 100th Day, Crystal Experiment, and Snow Globe FREEBIES

We learned about penguins this week….we read about them with my Penguin Close Read, we made the cute ones shown below from my Penguin Pack, we did a directed drawing {found HERE for free}  and don’t forget that we watched penguins on the penguin cam, too! But that’s not all we did, we also learned a little about suspensions while we created the most amazing

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Filed Under: 100th Day, Freebies, Penguins, Science, STEM, Uncategorized, Winter

January 11, 2015 by: Jennifer

STEM Force and Motion FREEBIE

Earlier this year, we worked on force and motion which culminated in a STEM lesson complete with cheap cars from Wal-Mart and cut up pieces of boxes, blocks, and paper towel rolls.  One of my students’ went home and told his mom that “school is so much fun!” Isn’t that what we want most? ….for out kids to love school?  This was a simple and

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August 31, 2014 by: Jennifer

S.T.E.M. Lessons POP! and FREEBIES

Are you familiar with S.T.E.M. (Science Technology Engineering & Math) Lessons?  To be honest, I knew it had to do with science, but I didn’t know much else about it.  Enter one very curious, engineer-loving little boy into my classroom this year (my son, Jack) and I decided it was time to learn MORE and to add some of these type lessons to my classroom.

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March 27, 2014 by: Jennifer

Milk Plus Soap Equals Fun {FREEBIE}

Seriously.  I told you guys that I am trying to fit in science into my teaching more and how my kids are lovin’ it.  Well, in sort of the spring/St Patrick’s Day vein, I decided to do an experiment with soap, food coloring,  and milk.  I first saw this experiment while visiting one of my favorite girl’s blog, Kindergarten Lifestyle.  Jeannie is awesome and so

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Filed Under: Freebies, Science, Spring, St Patrick's Day, STEM, Uncategorized

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