Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Jar Clouds







As part of our Stage 2 Science unit on Water last year, my class conducted this Jar Cloud experiment to demonstrate precipitation in the Water Cycle. It was also linked to our English Procedural writing task for that term as well.





What You Need:

  • Shaving cream
  • Glass jar
  • Water
  • Coloured food dye


 


Method:

  1. Fill the jar 3/4 full of water (atmosphere)
  2. Squirt shaving cream on top (cloud)
  3. Drop food dye droplets on top of the shaving foam
  4. Watch the dye leak through the foam and into the water.
 
 
 



  







Appreciation Pun Gifts Collection

The following are a collection of appreciation gifts for both colleagues and students!



You're a MINT to work with!
Printable found here.







You ROCK! Pop rocks printable found here.






Click here for the Reindeer Noses printable.

 




A Cut Above the Rest printable can be found here.





Find this POP-ular gift idea printable here.






You Are a Star! Click here for the printable.

 



For the EXTRA-ordinary people in your life, click here.





If you know someone worth their weight in GOLD, click here.





Making Minds Sharp!
Find this printable here.


Monday, 12 May 2014

Cool Cursive


Check out these cool cursive classroom displays!








To create, fold a piece of paper in half. Write your name next to the centre fold.

 






Cut around the lettering as shown:







Open, and paste onto a different coloured piece of cardboard for classroom display.




 





LEARN: Strategies for Success

This is a great visual reminder for students, particularly when undertaking tests or exams!


 


(Purchased the border here and the lettering here). 

Mother's Day Tagxedo


Tagxedo is an awesome web tool used to create shape word clouds that can be used for many ediucational purposes including:
  • Classroom display / posters
  • Adjective activities
  • Book covers
  • Title pages
  • Special days activities

 Here are a couple of Mother's Day adjectives samples:






Sunday, 11 May 2014

I Eat Meat

Spelling display hint: meet or meat?



Guess Who?

GUESS WHO?

"Changes Over Time" was our HSIE unit, and we had displayed in our room, photographs of students from when they were babies. At the end of the week, and without having discussed their ideas, we held a class competition to see who could correctly guess the most amount of children to their baby photos.



Each photo was numbered and students had to write their guess on a worksheet for collection.