Magnets

During our last full week of school (last week) I got out the magnets for us to explore.  The first day, I gave the children a pile of things on their table to explore with.  That’s all we did!  We just experimented with how things stuck to the magnets and what things around our classroom [...]

The new greenhouse

Check out my great find at my local Big Lots store… I was able to get this greenhouse for $30! It has four shelves and doubled our growing space! I let a teacher down the hall borrow my two shelf model so she could grow some plants of her own. There was also a walk [...]

Garden Monsters!

One of the sessions I was able to stand outside the doors of at NSTA this year was about gardening with children (or something to that effect). I can’t remember the presenters name right now, but I’ll try to find it and come back and add it.  The room was PACKED and I got there [...]

New Pictures

Here are some more new pictures from my classroom: Our Meal worms… Meal worms are really easy to keep and you get to watch the life cycle happen over and over again.  I just put corn meal in the bottom and some apple slices and carrots.  You also will need to add some water in [...]

Clouds

After we got over our fascination with worms, someone else mentioned clouds and so this last week, we’ve spent looking at the clouds.  One of the first misconceptions they had was that clouds were air/wind.  So we did some experiments to determine that clouds are not in fact air or made up of air: I [...]