Teacher GEMs

Let’s Get Cooking!

Have you tried cooking with children in your toddler and preschool classrooms?  No, I am not crazy…..cooking is a GREAT way to teach children all kinds of skills you want them to learn.  Think about it……literacy, language and vocabulary (looking at recipes and talking through the projects), math (simple counting and measurements), science (chemical reactions,…

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#ThankATeacher…Every Day

It seems as if there’s a special day for just about everything these days. National Brownie Day? Check. Be Humble Day? Check. Ear Muff Day? Bizarrely enough, check. It might not be politically correct to say so, but we think that some holidays are better than others. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day top the list, as does what…

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