Force and Motion Interactive Notebook

Hi everyone! I'm Rachel from 2nd Grade Rock Stars.

I have a secret... I DO NOT like science. There, I said it! I have never liked science or teaching science to my students.

So, I decided to try using interactive notebooks while teaching living and nonliving things. My kids were so excited when I brought out the different pages for them to work on. I mean, what 2nd grader doesn't like to glue and cut? The kids love to take their interactive notebooks home and color the pages. It also gives my students the chance to show off their work to their parents. It also made teaching science more interesting for me!


My kiddos worked hard on these pages of the Living Things Interactive Notebook.  They loved it and so did I!

My Force and Motion Interactive Notebook is also on sale for the next three days.

 Thanks for stopping by and saying hi.  Don't forget to come back tomorrow for another great dollar deal!

Rachel

Interactive Science Notebooks

Hi everyone! I'm Rachel from 2nd Grade Rock Stars.  I am super excited to be part of Teacher Deals and Dollar Steals and to bring you this fantastic dollar deal!


I have a secret... I DO NOT like science. There, I said it! I have never liked science or teaching science to my students.

So, I decided to try using interactive notebooks while teaching living and nonliving things. My kids were so excited when I brought out the different pages for them to work on. I mean, what 2nd grader doesn't like to glue and cut? The kids love to take their interactive notebooks home and color the pages. It also gives my students the chance to show off their work to their parents. It also made teaching science more interesting for me!


My kiddos worked hard on these pages of the Living Things Interactive Notebook.  They loved it and so did I!

My Force and Motion Interactive Notebook is also on sale for the next three days.

 Thanks for stopping by and saying hi.  Don't forget to come back tomorrow for another great dollar deal!

Rachel

Pumpkin Mini Unit

Hey Guys!!

Fall is the BEST season of the year! So much to do, eat, see, feel! One of my kids' favorite activities is picking pumpkins. So today's dollar deal is this Pumpkin Mini Unit. 

Take a look at everything that is included.

Make sure to check it out and hope your kiddos love it!

For the Love of Pumpkins!

It's Amy from Teaching in Blue Jeans.  Fall is here and I don't know about you, but I have jumped on the Pumpkin Everything bandwagon.  Living in Texas, fall is, well - just hot!  A cold front means it drops into the 80's.  As for leaves changing colors - not here.  So I do what I can to make it feel like fall and adding some pumpkin spice helps a lot!

I love using pumpkins in my classroom too.  In fact, we learn about pumpkins, investigate with pumpkins, cook with pumpkins and even create with pumpkins for a couple of weeks!  Today I want to share with you a couple resources I created for the beginning of our pumpkin unit: an emergent science reader about pumpkins and the pumpkin life cycle and pumpkin vocabulary cards.

I love using real pictures as often as I can because I believe it helps my students build real-world connections to build their learning on.  I love cute clip-art too - don't get me wrong - but in areas like science I try to go for the real thing.  In our area, there are not very many students who have seen a pumpkin anywhere other than the grocery store so exposing them to the real thing helps a lot!

I begin my pumpkin unit using the emergent reader.  This book guides us through the life cycle of a pumpkin, different types of pumpkins and uses for pumpkins.  We use it in science but also connect it to reading as we find sight words we have learned as well as phonics skills.  Here's a peek inside the book:

I use this full-page, color version to project on the board for whole class instruction.  I also like to print it out and staple it together to put in our class library for future reading.  A printed out copy works great for small group instruction as well.

You also get a black and white version of the book that is formatted for 2 to a page so that you can make "little books" for the students.  I love sending these home with my students so they can practice reading to their family!

After introducing pumpkins, I pull out our Pumpkin Vocabulary Cards.  These are a great way for the students to visualize the key science vocabulary.  Here's a couple examples from the Vocabulary Card Set.

Now is the perfect time to add these resources to your pumpkin unit!  At only $1 each they are a total Teacher Deal!!!  Grab them while you can - they will be marked down until Saturday, October 24.  

Happy fall y'all!

Get Outside!

Hey y'all! It's Aimee from Taking on Second again! I am totally loving this warm weather we have been having in southern Indiana. It has been amazing! I've taken the Jeep tops off a lot after school for my drive home! I also have been letting my kiddos "earn" extra recesses more often. Next week, we are going to start taking our science outside!

We will be heading outside to see how well our senses react in the Spring. I can't wait to just go outside and relax, listen to the birds, smell the spring time smells, see the beautiful flowers...I just love Spring! 

There is a page like the ones above for each sense. I am going to put these all together into a book for the students. The first page of the book will brainstorm how we use our senses outside. We will discuss what types of things happen in the Spring and what the weather is like. The final page will be a a summary of what Spring is like to them. All the senses will be in the middle! 

This is on sale for the next three days, you guessed it, in my {TPT Store}! It's only $1.00! 

Get outside and start enjoying Spring!

Science Interactive Notebook

Hi everyone! I'm Rachel from 2nd Grade Rock Stars.  I am super excited to be part of Teacher Deals and Dollar Steals and to bring you this fantastic dollar deal!


There are only 31 more days of school for me (I'm so jealous of those of you who are closer to the end of the school year!)and my kids were starting to get a glazed look in their eyes during science, which is so not my favorite subject.  You know that look...the glazed over, this is so boring look you get from your kids somedays.

So, I decided to try introduce interactive notebooks into my living and nonliving science unit. My kids were so excited when I brought out the different pages for them to work on. I mean, what 2nd grader doesn't like to glue and cut? The kids love to take their interactive notebooks home and color the pages. It also gives my students the chance to show off their work to their parents.


My kiddos worked hard on these pages of the Living Things Interactive Notebook.  They loved it and so did I!

My Force and Motion Interactive Notebook is also on sale for the next three days.

 Thanks for stopping by and saying hi.  Don't forget to come back tomorrow for another great dollar deal!

Rachel

Weather Craftivity

Hey friends! It's Keri from Enchanted Kinder Garden.

I recently made a little craftivity for my kids to go with our weather unit. I thought this would be the perfect resource to mark down for my teacher deal and dollar steal this month!

Yes, I realize our raindrop is upside down. :-)

 Each little weather person has matching hands and feet to either draw a picture or write describing words to go with it.

The cloud is my favorite! We will make him next week when we cover the types of clouds.

Here's my kids' rain person. They wrote things like rain jackets, rain boots, rainbow (I thought that was a great one. We didn't even talk about after rain it makes rainbows), wet, clear... There are so many ideas that they can come up with.

Grab this Weather People craft for $1 for the next 3 days!