Optical Illusion: How Many Legs Does This Elephant Have?

Sprout Pencils - A Pencil With a Seed

Learn more about these and colored pencils here.

Available in herb, vegetable, and floral on Amazon!

5 Minute Science Lesson - Mosquitoes

Why do you think male mosquitoes don't bite?

Back2School: How music can improve preschooler's behavior, school readiness

As a former music teacher, I can attest to the fact that singing songs, playing music games, and playing musical instruments is extremely beneficial to a Pre-Kinder and Kindergartner's development.

Even if it's something as simple as singing along and just clapping their hands, or letting them freestyle dance for a couple of minutes, it has a profound effect.

Any time you feel both you and your students need a quick break, pull out a song!

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Dumpster Diving With a Purpose

5 Minute Science Lesson - Earth's Rotation

1. What is this a picture of?

2. What is it doing?

3. Which direction is it going?

4. We say it's moving "counter-clockwise". By rotating in this direction, the sun rises in the east, or the right, and sets in the west, the left. (Look at a clock that has hands and notice which way is "counter-clockwise".)

How To Deal With Fidget Spinners

Introducing The Pasta Kidz by Bryony Supper

‘The Pasta Kidz™ and Petz Adventures’ are humorous, zany, magical and chaotic stories that bring together the pasta-themed Kidz – including Sarah Spaghetti, Rikki Ravioli, Camilla Cannelloni (above) and their creative Petz – Mumbo the Macaroni Dog, Spud the Spaghetti Horse and Val the Vermicelli Snake (above) together in unusual circumstances, engaging with strange magical objects that have a life of their own. The songs, music and humour, told in specially invented pasta language, will engage 4-to-7 year olds in a fantasy world of friendship. For more information, check out the website here. You can get these adorable books from Amazon here and here.

5 Minute Science Lesson - Dogs Drinking

What do you see the dog's tongue doing?
How does this different from the way your tongue works when you drink?

Things That Blew your Mind as a Kid

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Apps for Teachers Using iPads in Class

5 Minute Science Lesson - Wings and Flight Patterns

Look at the way each creature's wings "flap". 

Do any of them look familiar?
Notice how the dragonfly's four wings each move separately.

Do the two birds flap their wings the same?
What do these patterns tell you?

The Sensory Spectrum

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