Tips for Using Interactive Notebooks with Your Third Graders
Take a look at all of these tips that can help make interactive notebooks a success in your third grade classroom!
Water Cycle Mentor Text and Craft
If you are preparing to teach a unit on the WATER CYCLE you have to check out this water cycle mentor text and Ways to Conserve Water craft! A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of Water written by Jacqui Bailey and illustrated by Matthew Lilly This book really covers every part of […]
We are the Gardeners Book Recommendation
Let me count the ways I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this new book by Joanna Gaines and her kids. I can’t recommend this book enough! We are the Gardeners is the perfect read aloud! This book is full of science (plants) content and has a fantastic message about GROWTH MINDSET! I just happened […]
Earth Day! Book Recommendations & More
What do you do to promote conservation and the care of our environment? A great start is to educate our students about the simple things they can start doing today to make conservation a way of life! I want to share some ideas for teaching these concepts in your classroom- not just on Earth Day, […]
Food Chains Lesson Ideas
A few weeks ago I published a post with books to use if you are teaching a unit on food chains. I love finding great books to go along with different units of study- it is one of my favorite teachery things to do! So after coming up with the list of food chain books- it […]
Books to Teach Food Chains
Do you teach food chains? I have compiled a list of books you might want to check out! This first one would be GREAT to kick off your unit- it is a fiction book that is filled with humor… Carnivores by Aaron Reynolds This book tells the story of three lonely carnivores who […]
Drip! Drop! Teaching the Water Cycle!
Do you teach the water cycle in your science instruction? If so- here are 5 books you might want to check out… The Water Cycle a Bobby Kalman book Did a Dinosaur Drink This Water by Robert E. Wells All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon and Katherine Tillotson Magic School Bus […]
Back to School- Science: The First Week of School
Back to school is an exciting time! As a teacher, I am always ready to jump right in and get started! Of course, it is so important to take the time to establish routines and procedures and those things tend to fill up a majority of my time the first few weeks. So… as a […]