STEAM specialist in Medford School District. Art and creative enthusiast. Now, make it!
Joined August 2021
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I’m feeling valued by these lawmakers. Let’s hope it passes :)
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Kindergarteners wanting a joke, collectively: SAY IT SAY IT SAY IT!
Me: I don’t want to say it now. I don’t like chanting, it doesn’t feel kind.
Kindergartener, quietly to friend: I love camping!
New song lyrics overheard on the 2nd grade playground:
…K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
First comes love,
Then comes baby,
Then comes baby in the baby stroller!
Demonstrating proper drawing technique to 2nd graders: … and it is not perfect but pretty darn good.
2nd: what is ‘darn’?
Me:
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1st grader colored his origami hat 3:1, blue:red.
Me: I know blue is your favorite color.
1st: Red and blue are my favorite! Not red. Only blue…
Me:
1st: …and red.
#iteachSTEM #firstgrade #teachertwitter
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For the folks in the back staring at their hymnals avoiding eye contact! #BannedBooksWeek
With all these book bans, @levarburton's life just got a lot more difficult. #BannedBooksWeek
“I never want to hear anything,” says a 1st grader after learning that animals eat seeds and poop them out.
#seeddispersal
The STEAM lab used to be a storage basement that used to be the workroom that used to be the cafeteria. Hard walls, ceilings, floors ECHO! make kids cry. Spray painted egg cartons help, a little.
Thanks to Felipe Pantone for inspiration.
New room, with calmer acoustics and bulletin boards. Bent paper stapled to. Squeezing in 5 minutes of #selfcare is still valuable and adds up.
#bulletin #teacherlife
ALT Colored Paper stapled to a bulletin board
ALT A classroom bulletin board
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Thanks @SteveWyborney for the all the lessons over the years. On the first day I used to ask: how many blocks?
This year I changed things up. “I have a math problem for you. Raise your hand if you have an answer.” And share ONLY the picture
ALT 10 cubes
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A 6th grader said 17. It was the first day so I couldn’t tell if she was just being silly so I did the classic: what makes you think 17.
“That’s how many sides I can see.”
So they got more vocabulary, like “visible faces.” And another chimes in with 40 total faces!