Katheryne Ayers

OH

I start my student teaching this fall, but I have been lucky enough to be in the same district for the past year and a half. I've noticed that neither the third grade class I worked with the first semester, nor the second grade class I worked with last year had much science. Typically, in third grade, science and social studies are done in alternating weeks, but the science is typical read from a ...

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I did this with some first graders during a practicum! My partner and I brought in shoe boxes and a ton of material we'd bought from the dollar store, like pebbles, moss, flowers, etc. plus construction paper, glue, scissors. We picked out a bunch of those National Geographic Kids animal books and each group of about 3 received an animal and a book about their animal. Most of these kids were readi...

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I always ask my students to think about things they are observing and consider what is happening and why--and then frame their observations as questions they can explore using more inquiry-based thinking. For example, with my summer campers, more than one of the students has remarked about how hot it is outside. I once replied back that it felt so hot out you could probably cook an egg on the side...

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