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Hatching Chicks… Peep… Peep!!!

Hi Friends…I hope this post finds you all well. I wanted to share a little bit of Spring and how I teach hatching chicks with you today! When I first started teaching second grade, I wanted my students to have a hands-on experience with live animals by doing a life cycle…

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Bats and Spiders… and MORE… OH MY!

Hi Friends.. I hope this post finds you well.  With October approaching quite quickly, I wanted to let you know what I have my students do during our Daily 5 rotations in my Work on Writing station.   Introducing….. BATS!!!! So… I LOVE having the students do different types of…

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Science FUN with Interactive Notebooks!

Hi Friends… I hope this post finds you well and enjoying your summer break. I just returned home from a relaxing vacation in Punta Cana!  It was a ton of fun and I really needed the R & R 🙂 I actually wrote this blog post on the plane there…BUT……

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Earth Day FUN!

Earth Day Fun 3-in-1 Flip Flap Book® and Lapbook® Activity Hi Friends…. I just wanted to drop in and do a quick little blog post on Earth Day. April is approaching and I am a bit of a pre-planner…can you say…{type a}…I digress 🙂 With that being said, I wanted to…

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Spooky Spiders…EEEK!

  Hi Friends… I hope this post finds you all well.  I was SOOOOOOOO excited to receive a Facebook message from one of my followers today that included this picture……   It just makes me ALLLLL kinds of excited when a teacher uses my resources and sends me pictures!  I…

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Forms of Energy & a FREEBIE!!!

Hi Friends… Thanks so much for stopping by today 🙂  I wanted to share with you how I go about teaching Forms of Energy.  As part of our science curriculum we are expected to teach different forms of energy through the use of experiments.  It always seemed that this unit…

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Best Earth Day Ideas

Hi Friends….I just wanted to drop in and do a quick little blog post on Earth Day. It is coming up in April and I am a bit of a pre-planner…can you say…{type a}…I digress 🙂 I’ve been wanted to share some of my best Earth Day Ideas, Books and…

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It’s all about STATES OF MATTER!

It’s all about States of Matter! That’s what’s it’s all about today on my lil’ ol’ blog 🙂  I created this Matter Flip-Flap book from a request that I received from a “bloggy friend.”   I taught States of Matter to my second graders for about 13 years and then…

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BLAST OFF to our Outer Space Unit!

  10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1..BLAST OFF!   Blast off with our Outer Space Unit is how we started our day today 🙂  This week we are reading the story called Exploring Space with an Astronaut in our Reading Street series.  This has to be my favorite story to read and teach all year!…

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Phases of the Moon

I was like a kid today!  I had so much fun teaching…which I have been feeling a lot lately!  I have been inspired and my teaching rejuvenated and I’m excited about it 🙂  What a great feeling…  We have been learning about the Phases of the Moon over the last…

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