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5 Great Winter Books and STEM Activities

5 Great Winter Books and STEM Activities

Winter Books and STEM Activities that your elementary students will love!  I love reading picture books! Yes, I teach 5thgrade and still read picture books daily! My students enjoy listening to books about snow and winter topics! They even reread them several times during the time they are out! I love displaying seasonal picture books around my classroom! Here are… Read More

5 Fun and Easy STEM Christmas Activities

5 Fun and Easy STEM Christmas Activities

I love integrating STEM into my fifth grade classroom, especially during the Christmas holiday season. If you are like me, I like planning out my STEM Activities for December early! Getting all the supplies ready and gathered up! Students get excited and stay engaged whenever learning is made fun! It also gives my students something to look forward to on… Read More

My 5 Favorite November STEM Activities

My 5 Favorite November STEM Activities

November is such a full month, Veteran’s Day and then to Thanksgiving Holiday Activities. STEM Fridays are a regular routine in my classroom.  I try to have an engineering design challenge and connect it with a book or a science/social studies concept.  One of my favorites is with the book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet. This story is about… Read More

14 Books to Build a Classroom Community

14 Books to Build a Classroom Community

Are you looking for children’s books that start great classroom discussions about character education?  I start every morning with a family meeting.  Our family meetings are a huge part of building our classroom community. I love reading picture books to my students! And yes, I teach 5th grade. 5th graders even look forward to our book a day!  These books bring… Read More

Testing Week!

Testing Week!

Testing is here! Like it or not! So why not make the best of it. Now is the time to motivate your students to do their best! Here are some fun ideas!! All these things are cheap and easy, but definitely makes our students feel special! Taking the time to write a little special note!! These things bring a smile… Read More

February STEM Challenges

February STEM Challenges

February STEM February is one of my favorite months! It is full of excitement and fun learning opportunities.  Candy hearts and making Love Boats are fun ways to get my students learning important skills while they are thinking critically and problem solving! Teaching students measurement skills can be fun, whenever you throw in some candy hearts. Check out my STEM… Read More

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Wow, starting another year! I always reflect on my teaching practices and how my students are learning.   Questions I ask myself:   Are my students learning?  Are they engaged?  Are they enjoying learning?  Are they loving school?   Are they becoming lifelong learners?   This year while reading, these words stuck out to me: Learning by doing! I feel that STEM totally encompasses… Read More

Thanksgiving STEM Challenges

Thanksgiving STEM Challenges

Happy November!! I just want to share a couple exciting things with you! The first thing is November STEM! I have several STEM products in my store that will engage your students during the Thanksgiving season. Check out these fun products! My students loved making Totem Poles and floating their tinfoil canoes.  Keep your students excited about learning and thinking… Read More

5th Grade Matter Unit & Fun Activities

5th Grade Matter Unit & Fun Activities

                                  Fun ways to teach matter! Wow! What an exciting day. We finished up our Unit on Matter with a “Cookin’ Up Chemistry” Breakfast. It was a fun and yummy way to end our study of matter.           Over the… Read More

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  • Project Based Learning Lessons will engage your students as they create simulations of real live event learning tasks. Students will engage and think critically as they go through these projects. Students love learning when it is real, relevant, and engaging!
  • STEM for the Entire Year Bundle includes over over 20 Challenges, experiments, and activities your students will love all yearlong in your classroom! These activities are great for team building at the beginning of the school and covers holidays throughout the year! Slime Experiments and Making End of the Year Awards are two of my favorite STEM Challenges. Your students will be engaged as they think critically and problem solve.
  • Water Bottle Flipping STEM Activity is a packet of five experiements your students will love! Water Bottle Flipping is the latest trend! Even though it might drive you crazy, it will engage your students in learning about collecting data, fractions, measurement, and opinion writing. Students will flip for this activity!
  • If you read The Friendship War by Andrew Clements this is the resource for you! The Friendship War STEM Challenge and Flipbook is a packet of literacy activities that your students will love and be engaged in while reading the novel. Lapbooks are great for keeping your students accountable and focused during book clubs and discussion groups.
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