I have seen a few of these pull-back racers pop up on Pinterest from time to time, from amazing bloggers like Frugal Fun 4 Boys and these various rubber band racers, but I thought we could take it one step further and make it more of an engineering activity. Building the racer ...
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Time for another Five for Friday post! I hope everyone had a great week! This week was school vacation week for the local schools, so Spanish class, piano lessons, and swimming lessons were all canceled. Our homeschooling music class was not, so at least we got that in! ...
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Time for another Five for Friday post! This week we had so much fun making our own scratch art paper and making valentines with the paper! It was so simple to do - just color with crayons on card stock, then paint on using a foam brush, with a 50/50 mixture of black tempera ...
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Thank you to Teachers are Terrific for hosting this fun science link up! Be sure to head on over to see what everyone is doing in their science classes this week: This past week we have been studying genetics! First, we did a fingerprint lab. We all captured our fingerprints ...
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...in other news, it wasn't until a few hours after posting this that I realized it is Thursday, not Wednesday. H ...
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I had so much fun being interviewed by Lucy for her Teaching Across the USA series! Since I'm not originally from MA, when we moved here these are the words that stuck out as different (and humorous)! The first time someone said "No SUH!" to me I honestly had no idea what the ...
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There are some AMAZING freebies available on Teachers pay Teachers for Black History month! There are hundreds listed for Martin Luther King, Jr., so this post will focus on other important people in black history. First up is a Harriet Tubman freebie from Crockett's Classroom. ...
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Pi Day is such a fun holiday to celebrate with kids! Here are some of my favorite low prep Pi Day activities. How will you be celebrating? !--Join my Pi Day blog hop and linky at the end of this post (starts 2/14/15). You are welcome to use the image below in your post: --> Low ...
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