Whew! Spring forward!

This weekend the time SPRANG forward! Most of us were dragging the next day I am sure, but my kids were ready to go! I got the idea from Greg Smedley-Warren at the Kindergarten Smorgasboard's leap year activities. At leap year he did stories about animals that would leap and jump. So I modified it a bit and we discussed animals that could SPRING! It was SO MUCH FUN! We are working on non standard measurement this week also so we had a jumping competition and measured our jumps. My kids and I read books about bunnies and frogs. One of our favorite springing character is Froggy so naturally we read several Froggy books! We made a graphic organizer naming different springing animals. Last week we visited African grasslands and one of my kids recalled a gazelle as an animal that could spring. ( I was proud!) We made bunny ear hats to wear and my kids absolutely loved them. They swore they could jump further and higher with them, I guess they were channeling their inner bunny. Haha!

Study Jams! Science and Math

This post is geared more toward the upper elementary teachers (3-6 ish)...

Scholastic has an awesome website called Study Jams.  It has science and math based learning activities for upper elementary.

When you go to the main screen you will see a bunch of billboards with topics on them. When you click on it a list will show up of skills that are related to the main topic. All you have to do is click on the topic and skill. I have used it in the past to introduce a skill.

Each section/lesson has a video and real life problem to help the kids understand the topic. There is a list of vocabulary words that will also be listed at the bottom of each lesson to review. I do not use it in my kindergarten class but I used it a lot with my third graders. They absolutely loved it!

Visit the website by clicking on the picture below: