Hands On, Minds On

I spent this past week in a teacher in-service offered by EdVenture. EdVenture is a children's museum located in front of the SC State Museum. EdVenture offers teacher inservices during the summer months. It was an interesting week. Here are some of the highlights:

• I learned more about brain research and how it applies to children.


• I learned what a worm likes/dislikes.


• I learned how to create a monster.


• I learned how to make a chemical reaction come out of said monster.
• I made paper.
• I learned about some great websites.


• I learned that Eddie is really huge!!


• I met some awesome new friends from Edgefield.

Not only did we have some hands on time, we also recieved some cool stuff to use in our classroom. Here is a list of my loot:

• Graduated cylinder


• Tabletop pocket chart


• funnel


• Science Encyclopedia


• Book about Science experiments


• balance scale


• Book About Jake and the migration of butterflies.


• A science kit that includes: eyedroppers, magnets, magnifying glasses, bug catchers, color pads, and more.


• A world map


• A blow up globe


• safety goggles


• shower curtains to make word walls/graphs


• velcro


• A set of books about weather


• A weather science kit

I also had the opportunity to get to know some of my new kindergarten team.

The Saxe Gotha Crew: