Olivia Diestelkamp

Future educator, senior at Kansas State University! Go ‘cats! 👩🏼‍🏫🍎📚

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Last Friday at adventure camp, we spent some time learning about different canning and preservation methods. Of course, then we had to make our own “very berrry freezer jam”! The kids couldn’t have been more excited and engaged 😋🍓 someone, pass the toast!

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Another amazing practicum experience come and gone. Time with the students flies by so quickly! Next up: student teaching 🤩💚

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

April is the month of the military child! Being at a school on base, I took the chance to help the students explore how they are like a dandelion (the official flower of military children) in this social studies lesson. 💜🌼

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Kindergarten rocked their first Venn Diagram! Today we used our knowledge about mammals to help us learn about birds! Then each student was given an animal and had to decide: mammal or bird? (Students stretched the word worm for me, hence “werm”)

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

When ideas come to life 😍🙌🏼 At breakfast with Santa this year, visitors were asked to engineer parachutes to help Santa deliver presents down chimneys. So many great parachutes were designed and a handful of kiddos made them in the chimney below!

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Everyone was so excited about their seed growth; “look at my roots!”, “take a picture of my plant!”

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

My face when I’m in charge of these guys 🌱 over thanksgiving break (after our first go at growing seeds was a flop): 😬😳

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Biotic component foldable for a second grade science unit. I had fun choosing what to include/draw on my tiles. I think that student choice will be important for students as well! #ownyourlearning

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What is one piece of advice would you give to new teachers? #edchat

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

BEST TOWER EVER!! 🗼 Magnatiles are the bomb and so are these three. I had to put the top layers on once it got too tall and you can bet I was so nervous that I was going to knock it down 😱

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

My little gal, Tallulah, showing off for a group of kiddos as she eats some raspberries from my lunch 😆 This ornate box turtle and her other friends and still recuperating from all of their programs as we celebrated Kansas Day!

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

My CHAMPS posters! What a great classroom management strategy. My hope is that in my future classroom I will be able to mark the box next to the behaviors making these posters perfect to use for all classroom activities and transitions!

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

This S’more is a easy handout for my classmates in literacy methods. In my mini lesson over the strategy, “quilts” from “50 Literacy Strategies” by Gail E. Tompkins, we made a class quilt over “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”: our current class read. https://t.co/IlEDj5byfz

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

On our day off from school we spent the day exploring “interesting art” at adventure camp! We read “The Dot” by Peter H Reynolds which was great to remind the students of having a growth mindset as they worked on their projects. Thanks to @cassiestephens for the lesson!

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Three diverse text sets on my website over gender equality, socioeconomic status, and special education! 📕📗📘 https://t.co/8T3kuAFVSk

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Working on creating some diverse text sets! The first one on gender equity is up! More to come... 📕🔎 https://t.co/8T3kuAFVSk

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

💭Senior year is in full swing! This quote just inside of Hale has always resonated with me since starting school at Kansas State. Now that I’m so close to getting my degree in education I can’t help but reflect on it a little more... (and hope that it is undamaged 🔥) 💭

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Experimenting with density ⚗️

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

Up close and personal with wolf spiders. Now that I know how to spot them, I can’t stop seeing them! 🕷🕸 #discover #science

[Olivia Diestelkamp @ODiestelkamp]

What’s more fun than talking about scat? Making it out of clay! Of course someone had to make poop snowmen 😂