Mon, Nov 21, 2016 4:51 PM in Motivation
To keep students motivated the class and I go through the lessons I have planned for 3 to 4 days our of the week and depending on their behavior we have 2 or 3 days where we conduct experiments or do activities that we vote on as a class.
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Mon, Nov 21, 2016 4:42 PM in Animals in the classroom?
The school district that I am student teaching in has a center that teachers can check out animals and keep them in the class for a week. The teachers must go through a training but they have some pretty awesome pets. We have had rabbits, snakes, hissing cockroaches, and birds. Those are just the ones we have had so far.
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Mon, Nov 21, 2016 4:38 PM in Sink and Float: Kindergarten
We gathered random items such as paper clips, straws, marble, eraser, etc. and beforehand the students would predict what would sink and what would float. I then showed a video from high school and I was in a cardboard box boat race. Students were amazed that the boat didn't float.
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