- Holiday Gifts: Are Educational Toys Always Geeky? Article first published as Holiday Gifts: Are Educational Toys Always Geeky? on Technorati. In Lemony Snicket’s, The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, a Christmas story, we are told, “It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can […]
- Parent Comments about SIMPLY SCIENCE CAMP Comments from parents “Thanks for a great summer. Our son had a wonderful time and new vocabulary words keep popping out of his mouth that I know you are responsible for!” (Kindergarten) “Our daughter was so into Science Camp and learned more about science in her two weeks here then she learned in an entire […]
- Science Philosophy: Little Linchpins My goal is creating and inspiring lifelong learners and little linchpins. From California Department of Education : We are all born with natural curiosity about our world. Science is an extension of this curiosity. When we read about a new discovery, watch a bird fly, or think about how something works, we are doing science. […]
- Studying Life Cycles
- Studying Conservation of Liquid Volume
- Simple Machines Check out my favorite site for simple machines: click here For more great website links, use the Just for Kids link on the side of our blog!
- Studying Habitats
- Studying Biomes
- Studying Forces For our forces unit in Second Grade, we study architectural plans, build our own gum drop houses and talk about simple machines. Check out this great link: Simple Machines
- Do we need the Nice Police? Article first published as Do We Need the Nice Police? on Technorati. When I worked on a cruise ship as real-life Julie Macoy (my actual title was Assistant Cruise Director), I could often be heard remarking, “That is not nice!” which earned the response,”Hey, what are you the nice police?” In light of recent events, […]