I found this great website that has an awesome version of Jack and the Beanstalk available for my K kids to watch. They love it (and love the accent too!) and have watched it many times. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/misc/stories/misc-jackandthebeanstalk/ There are also other stories on this site that your children can watch! Kristen
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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 [...]
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Here is a look at the plants I got/made at NSTA this year: One is a plant called “Mother of 10,000′s”. That’s the one in the little portion cup. The other plant is a Wisconsin Fast Plant. The booth where they had them was shutting down and the vendors did not want to take them [...]
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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 [...]
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We began our study of insects/bugs by reading The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. After taking a picture walk and reading it aloud to the children, we discussed the clocks that are pictured on most of the pages. The children learned that we would be learning about telling time and addition (with ladybug spots) this [...]
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Last week (yes, I’m a little behind) we read Jack and the Beanstalk, which ties in nicely to my seeds and planting theme. We began by reading Jack and the Beanstalk (the version by Little Golden Books). When we finished reading the story, we noticed that there was a large note hanging on our Morning [...]
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We are reading a big book this week titled “Seeds”. Because there are a few students who will be leaving early this week to head out on Spring Break, we did not do a Predictable Chart, however we did do several neat Inquiry Based things in Science. I like to begin almost all my themes/units [...]
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Kristen Poindexter
