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Kindness Makes a Difference!
The entire Lower School focused on kindness during the month of February. Our first graders brainstormed about ways to be kind to others. We then asked the children to draw a picture showing a kind act...
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Dr. Seuss Book Spin-Offs
Aren’t Dr. Seuss books fun? His whimsical illustrations and storytelling create wonderful opportunities for students to enter a world of silly make-believe, while still having a life lesson for...
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Wanted: Tiny Rooms for Stuart Little
The second grade classes are reading Stuart Little this year. After attending the LLI Southwest conference in February, our teachers are eager to incorporate design thinking and makerspace activities...
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“What is Under the Bed?” Can You Predict?
I love incorporating literacy skills into lab activities and bringing in technology is a fun and effective way to make predictions. This year, I discovered the book, What’s Under the Bed, by Joe...
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2nd Graders Create Homophone Books
To go along with the homophone spelling unit, a second grade teacher asked if there was a digital way that we could make a homophone book. My go-to app is Book Creator and I felt like this would be...
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I am absolutely loving the ability to publish on Book Creator’s site. Here are some of the books we’ve created so far this year.
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How Do You Keep Goldilocks out of the Cottage?
To go along with the second grader’s Fairy Tale unit, Mrs. Garcia’s class came to the iLab to design a latch for the three bears. The idea came from a STEM Fairy Tale Unit called, A Latch for the Three...
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Writing Fairy Tales
Mrs. Garcia’s class has done an in-depth study of Fairy Tales. They have created a latch to keep Goldilocks out of the 3 Bears’ House, written blog posts, compared and contrasted numerous fairy tales,...
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“It Could Have Been Worse. . .”– Making Predictions
I absolutely LOVE combining literature and technology when students visit the lab! One of my favorite books is, It Could Have Been Worse, by A.H. Benjamin. It is a one of the best books for making...
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Kinder Meets Book Creator
I’ve never started making books so early in the year with our kindergarteners but, as Book Creator was perfect for what I wanted to do with them, I was eager to give it a try. My challenge was: Have...
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