Kindergarten

Angie O'Malley

Accessible Playground Design

Earlier this month, I read Just Because by Rebecca Elliott to the kindergarten students. This story tells a beautiful story of a...

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Kindergarten Forces and Motion

Kindergarten has been learning about forces and motion! We started with an iPad photo scavenger hunt of different types of pushing and...

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Designing Bat Wings

Inspired by a lesson from the blog, Plans for a Better Tomorrow, my kindergarten students designed Wings for our wingless bat! Students...

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Paper Airplanes

Kindergarten learned how to fold a paper airplane! This is a very important life skill, you know! They also learned that paper airplanes...

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Rotations

I always love to start the school year with rotations for my primary grades. It allows new students to get a feel for STEAM lab, explore...

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St. Patrick's Day STEAM

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day in STEAM by making leprechaun traps! K-2nd grade students designed and built leprechaun traps with...

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Dr. Seuss Inspired Architecture

A couple weeks ago students celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday by creating some Dr. Seuss inspired architecture, from Mrs. Knight's Blog. We...

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Dino Dig

One of our kindergarten classes was learning about dinosaurs, so I thought I would continue with this idea. We put on our imaginary...

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Upcycled Marble Runs

In K-2 Morning STEAM, we used recycled materials to build our own marble runs. First, we talked about how marble runs work and the forces...

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Foil Boats

Kindergarten worked on creating foil boats that would hold as many marbles as possible. This lesson really drilled in the idea of...

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