Punched Tin Luminaries
As those of you who are regular readers know, I've recently done both cooking and embroidery projects with my students in connection to our history unit on colonial life. It ...
Colonial Embroidery Project
Every other year when I teach American History and my unit on colonial life, I like to have my students put together an embroidery project. I start by giving them ...
Valentine’s Bulletin Board & Photo Booth
As is so often the case, I recently saw something on Pinterest I liked that I had to try myself. I told you last week about a site that teaches ...
Students Make a Colonial Feast
Last week I told you that I would give a full report on how cooking colonial recipes with my students went. (You can read more about how this project got ...
How Caring for Yourself Better Enables You to Help Kids
You know how when you are flying in an airplane, just after they shut the doors they go over those in-flight passenger announcements? Well, here it is January and the ...
Valentine Project & Bulletin Board in One
Pinterest does it again! Through it I recently came across Ruth’s lovely blog, Living Well/ Spending Less, where she has an awesome embroidery project for kids.
I am so excited! Right ...
Posters and Working Models of the Lung
Our science lessons this week have been about understanding the respiratory system and the parts that make it up. So far we've covered the purpose of mucus, and the process ...
Great Video to Illustrate the Scientific Process
My students were asking about GMOs the other day in science class, and in our discussion they grew more and more curious about what these foods are and how they ...
A Tasty Lesson in History
This past Friday I took our lesson on colonial life to our taste buds by sharing some excerpts from the book Food and Recipes of the Thirteen Colonies.
'Although the colonists were ...
New Year, New Perspective
During the first half of the school year, we faced the front of the room, but when students came back from Christmas break, I had things turned around so that ...