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9/18/2023
THE PROMISE OF A WINDOW
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9/14/2023
THE CASE FOR PHYSICAL GAMES OVER DIGITAL
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9/8/2023
KINDERGARTEN MATH, SCIENCE, AND ART WITH APPLES

THE PROMISE OF A WINDOW

9/18/2023

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Every morning when I entered my classroom, I opened the shades to our large windows. I don't know why that's the first thing I did, but it became a habit I enjoyed. Few people were at the school when I arrived, so opening the window shades became a personal, quiet ritual.

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THE CASE FOR PHYSICAL GAMES OVER DIGITAL

9/14/2023

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During parent conferences, I always asked if the kids were playing math games at home. The response was a blank stare as if to say I was questioning if their kid was brushing their teeth. Then they would list the many iPad games they downloaded, everything from Prodigy to Geometry Dash, stopping to say that they only get 30 minutes of screen time daily. (And no, I wasn’t familiar with many of their games.)

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KINDERGARTEN MATH, SCIENCE, AND ART WITH APPLES

9/8/2023

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It’s that time of year again—fall! That means we have apples falling by the bucket load in my backyard.

A few years ago, I took a bunch of apples to school to cut up for snacks. My kindergarteners loved them. The next day, I had apples from a different tree in my yard. They were more tart. Naturally, my students had many opinions about the apples.
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7 THINGS I LEARNED FROM REMOTE TEACHING

9/5/2023

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​Years later, it’s easy to forget what having to go remote taught us during the lockdown. Some things may be better left forgotten, but I think it’s worth learning from the positive changes we adopted at the time. These are the things I’ll take with me.

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MY GROWTH MINDSET COLLECTION

9/3/2023

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Over the years, many parents have asked me for my favorite storybooks to help kids build their growth mindset.

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IMPORTANCE OF SELF-CARE

9/1/2023

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​I've been a teacher for almost a decade now. I taught kindergarten and first-grade for the past seven years. This past year, I experienced burnout, so I decided to take time away from being a classroom teacher.

My burnout was due to many reasons. These include changes in policies at my school, increased student social-emotional challenges, lack of opportunities to advance and grow, and more.

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STEM PROJECT: THE NIGHT SKY

1/22/2023

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I created a mini-science unit on space for my first graders, inspired by Mrs. Myer's Kindergarten.

We made moon paintings, calculated our moon jumps, made constellation art, and completed a lunar space shuttle STEM challenge.
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STEM PROJECT: BUBBLES!

1/22/2023

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Who doesn't love bubbles?!

For this project, I created my own bubble solution and gave the kids several different methods for creating bubbles. At which point, it was up to them to create the largest bubbles they could, and the results were amazing!

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STEM PROJECT: MINI BOATS

1/22/2023

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I'm not sure what it is about water, but kids seem to love a project that involves getting wet! In this project, students learned about buoyancy by designing their own boats.

They learned that boats float because their weight is equal to the pressure from the liquid beneath them. We first experimented with objects to see what would float in a small amount of water. Then we added more water to see whether or not it changed their ability to float.

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STEM PROJECT: PAPER CIRCUITS

1/22/2023

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One of our projects in STEM club was paper circuits.

I found this activity from the SF Exploratorium's "Tinkering" website.
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