I got a lot of great responses from my post with the "rotation stations" that I thought I'd share another example that included sensory, science, critical thinking and exploration! During our section in biology during our Science Fair theme we learned about living and non-living things. I loved the daily topic poster! The kids knew the difference between the living bear and the non-living bear and it made it easy for the kids to answer questions like "Does this one... breath, sleep, eat, grow or change... etc". For this rotation station set up I had five stations that the kids used. This first station was the one I helped with the most! It required me to ask the kids questions and help them critically think about whether an object was living or non-living. The child would choose a picture from the pile and then we would start with the questions. "Does it move all by itself?" "Does it grow and change?" "Does it breathe?" "Does it need food and water to survive?" After asking the child a question they would choose the YES or NO tag and put it in the column under the question. After all of the questions the children would determine if the object was living or not? The kids had fun picking a photo from the pile and then deciding if it was alive or not!
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During our Science Fair theme we got this awesome book from Mother Goose Time, Ingenuity. I am a huge fan of the books that we receive each month and I LOVE that they always integrate so well into our theme. The illustrations are fun and the stories are easy for the kids to comprehend! A lot of the books from Mother Goose Time have different learning levels! From simple to read lines to in depth ideas and concepts to discuss with the children. The book Ingenuity, takes our young learners through many scientific principles. The book teaches them about many of the great minds who established laws of science as well many other great scientific achievements. Here are a few pages about Isaac Newton. The kids enjoy the illustrations because they are fun and inviting! Alfred Nobel I really like when stories have interactive capabilities. For instance this page has a section where you are asked to find the matching pairs of rhyming words. These engage the kids more in the story. Albert Einstein I wanted to note something that I really enjoyed about this story. The authors started each scientist's story out at a point in their lives when they were children. I feel like this helps kids to relate to the scientist and see that they started as kids too and grew into great scientists. Thomas Edison Another favorite aspect of mine in this book... the quotes! There are quotes through the book from each of the scientist discussed. Rachel Carson You can see shortened the sections our "notes bout this book" were referring to. The bolder text are the shortened version of the book that you can read for younger groups. Did I mention I love the illustrations! Too cute <3 I love this "call to action" on the last page! The last three sentences encourage the kids and remind them that they if they put their minds to something they can do great things. What do you think?! I'm so thankful Mother Goose Time sends us a new book every month! The kids love them and I enjoy incorporating them into our lessons.
I've always loved the Little Helpers set up that Mother Goose Time sends every year with our set up materials. I've just never really found a way to utilize them in my classroom. We don't have a class pet, the kids don't help with lights... BUT I was running into some arguments about who's "turn" it was to be my big helper for snack time prep and clean up. Then a light bulb came on and I found the little helpers signs. YUP! There were snack helper and table washer signs in there that I could definitely use!!! I found this fun utensil caddy at the Dollar Tree and decided with some popsicle sticks it would be the perfect Big Helper station! I used some leftover popsicle sticks from a past activity and wrote all the kiddos names on them. Then I put them in a small box. Each day I pull out two popsicle sticks and have the kids see whose names they are. Those are my two Big Helpers of the day! One get's to be my table washer. They help me wipe down the table before snack and clean it and the chairs up after we are finished eating. The other kiddo get's to be my snack helper. They help set out the dishes we will be using and make sure every friend gets one for snack time. Then after we are finished eating they get to help me vacuum up the snack area to be sure we don't have any "squishies" on the floor :) The kids seem to really like getting surprised and seeing who's name comes out of the box each day! It's also a great way to get in some name recognition!
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