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Reading, Writing, Thinking and Talking in Science

Tamara — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 06:12:52 +0000

When you’ve taught long enough, everything comes back around. We are back to the basics: reading, writing, thinking and talking. One of the things that I love about digging into this in every unit is the way my learners work while we are moving through projects! There is nothing so sweet as the hum of...

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STEAM in the Primary Classroom: Making Bubbles

Tamara — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:00:00 +0000

I love integrating science into my reading block. A unit on bubbles is a great way to finish out the year. Since we’re a STEAM school, we have to have several STEAM activities throughout the year. In first grade, each classroom does a special experiment and creates a science fair board to present their information....

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STEAM Activities: Holiday Edition

Tamara — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:00:00 +0000

Greetings fellow educators! This year, I’ve been focusing on my science and social studies integration activities much more closely. I’m having a great time creating meaningful lessons for my littles. Last week, we did our Holiday themed STEAM rotations. I was so excited about doing them, I drafted my neighbor, Erin and her students into...

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Beachtastic Sale…among other things….

Tamara — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 03:43:00 +0000

If you follow me at all, you’ve already gotten wind of the fact that I got to spend part of my vacation with the lovely Marie Cote of The Hands on Teacher in First! To celebrate the awesomeness of our little get together this weekend, we’ve put together the world’s quickest sale ever! 🙂 ...

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Bright Ideas: STEM for Firsties

Tamara — Sat, 17 May 2014 18:00:00 +0000

Hello friends! Welcome to another wonderful installment of the bright ideas hop! This week, I’m going to chat a bit about how I integrate STEM style lessons into my classroom! Our school became a STEM school last year, and I really didn’t know what that meant! LOL! Basically… The thing to remember with any STEM...

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Wordless Wednesday: STEM Activities

Tamara — Thu, 01 May 2014 20:06:00 +0000

Linking up with Christina over at Sugar & Spice for Wordless Wednesday! We are a STEM School and we’re all about the Science Fair! Click on the picture to check out the promo I did with one of my teaching besties! We are too ridiculous…but hey…it’s for the kids! More to come...

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Halloween Actvities

Tamara — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:28:00 +0000

I had a really great day with the kids today! I am collaborating with one of the other teachers on my grade level, and so, sometimes–we’re like co-planners/co-teachers. It’s really a lot of fun and I think that the kids are getting a ton out of it. We started at around 9 this morning with...

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