It's the final day of teacher week over at Blog Hoppin, and we are talking about our favorite subject to teach!
Reading is my very favorite subject to teach - If you want to read more about that you can check out my post on the Blog Hoppin blog today!
I did say I may have 2 favorites. Since becoming a second grade teacher.So I'm sharing my other favorite here!
As a general education teacher I've had the first opportunity in my career to teach science and I have to say I LOVE IT! Maybe almost as much as reading. I know that my students love it, and it's mostly because of the fun hands on lessons we get to do.
Right now we are learning all about the states of matter and Hope Kings unit is amazing! It's filled with engaging activities to help teach all the important details.
From day one I had my students attention when I pulled out a water balloon and a frozen balloon, they've been captivated during science every since! We made these colorful flip books to help us identify the different states of matter and record our vocabulary words.
It has different pictures for them to cut out and glue under the correct heading to identify what state of matter that particular object would be.
Then we took a look at what molecules look like in different states. The person wearing lots of balloons represents solid, the person with a few balloons is liquid, the person with just two balloons is gas. They jump around and watch the molecules move, or not!
They glued fruit loops to the recording sheet to represent how the molecules looked during each state.
I know they are going to be so excited today when they see bottles of soda and pop rocks candy on the science table! I have so much fun prepping for these lessons and can't get enough of the excitement they generate in my students. So science is also my favorite subject, almost right up there with reading!
What is your favorite subject? Come on over to Blog Hoppin and link up with us so we can see what gets you excited about teaching!
Reading is my very favorite subject to teach - If you want to read more about that you can check out my post on the Blog Hoppin blog today!
I did say I may have 2 favorites. Since becoming a second grade teacher.So I'm sharing my other favorite here!
As a general education teacher I've had the first opportunity in my career to teach science and I have to say I LOVE IT! Maybe almost as much as reading. I know that my students love it, and it's mostly because of the fun hands on lessons we get to do.
Right now we are learning all about the states of matter and Hope Kings unit is amazing! It's filled with engaging activities to help teach all the important details.
From day one I had my students attention when I pulled out a water balloon and a frozen balloon, they've been captivated during science every since! We made these colorful flip books to help us identify the different states of matter and record our vocabulary words.
It has different pictures for them to cut out and glue under the correct heading to identify what state of matter that particular object would be.
Then we took a look at what molecules look like in different states. The person wearing lots of balloons represents solid, the person with a few balloons is liquid, the person with just two balloons is gas. They jump around and watch the molecules move, or not!
They glued fruit loops to the recording sheet to represent how the molecules looked during each state.
I know they are going to be so excited today when they see bottles of soda and pop rocks candy on the science table! I have so much fun prepping for these lessons and can't get enough of the excitement they generate in my students. So science is also my favorite subject, almost right up there with reading!
What is your favorite subject? Come on over to Blog Hoppin and link up with us so we can see what gets you excited about teaching!