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Welcome to Teaching With a Mountain View! My name is Mary, and I am currently teaching in the classroom and passionate about creating hands-on, engaging activities that students (and teachers!) will love. Whether you're a classroom teacher looking to increase engagement and supplement your curriculum, a homeschool parent looking for best practices in educating your child, or an interventionist or GT Facilitator, I've got something for you!
I have taught third, fourth, and fifth grade. I have also served as an interventionist for grades K-5 and TAG Coordinator & Teacher. I am currently a Gifted Facilitator/Teacher for students in grades K-3.
My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to share ideas that enrich your content, engage your learners, and inspire your teaching.
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End of the Year Awards | Editable Awards with Autofill | 150+ End of Year Awards
End of the year student awards that celebrate every child in a meaningful, positive way? I've got you covered! These end of the year classroom awards come with multiple options, including autofill and a totally customizable award to make it easy to recognize each student with personalized, positive awards they’ll be proud of. *There are over 150 reasons these are the #1 Selling End of the Year Awards year after year and the all-time best-selling End of the Year Awards on TpT!*That's right! This
K - 12th
For All Subjects, Not Subject Specific
Also included in: End of the Year Activities Bundle | Awards | Math Projects | Yearbook
First Day of School Task Cards | Back To School Activity | Getting to Know You
Get to know your students and build classroom community during the first few days and weeks of school with these 82 unique "getting to know you prompts" and activities! With digital and printable "getting to know you" options, your students will be engaged in meaningful conversations to get to know one another. I always use these task cards during the first week of school, and we love them! **NOW INCLUDES MULTIPLE OPTIONS for use! COMPLETE Update in 2025!** These are the ORIGINAL Getting To Know
2nd - 7th
Creative Writing, Reading, School Counseling
Reading Skill of the Day BUNDLE for Spiral Review | Daily Reading Comprehension
This bundle contains a full FORTY weeks of daily reading skill review. It is just what you need for a consistent spiral review of reading skills throughout the year. It is perfect for morning work, as a reading warm-up, or homework. This valuable resource contains a full year's worth of reading skill review, plus extra weeks for homework, test prep, and more! Engage your students in a daily review of 17 key reading skills with this *HUGE* Reading Skill of the Day Weekly Journal. ✏️ Looking fo
3rd - 5th
Close Reading, Reading, Reading Strategies
Reading Skills Task Card Bundle | Reading Comprehension Tasks
A HUGE set of over 350 of my Reading Skills Task Cards all bundled into one nice, discounted package. These reading skill task cards are digital AND printable. You will receive the following cards: Author's Purpose: 44 Cards Main Idea: 52 Cards Compare and Contrast : 32 Cards Cause and Effect : 32 Cards Fact and Opinion : 64 Cards Story Elements : 32 Cards Sequencing : 32 Cards Inference Task Cards : 40 Cards (2 Differentiated Sets = 80 Cards) Distance Learning Update: ALL Sets include
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
DIFFERENTIATED Place Value Math Project, Place Value Detectives! Your students will love practicing their place value skills as real-life, crime-solving detectives. As the students start up their own detective agency, they must also solve 5 crimes that require them to use their place value skills. {4 of the pages have two different options to maximize your differentiation!) Check out the preview for a look at all 8 student work pages (Also includes 4 additional pages with larger numbers, up to
3rd - 5th
Math, Place Value
CCSS
2.NBT.A.1
, 2.NBT.A.3
, 2.NBT.A.4
+3
Also included in: Math Projects BUNDLE | Real-World Activities for Math Skills
Morning Work Journal or Bell Ringers | Think It Through for Critical Thinking
Think It Through is 45 weeks of activities to ENGAGE, enrich and extend your students' creative, critical, and reflective thinking. This creative critical thinking weekly journal is a FULL YEAR bundle and perfect for morning work, early finishers and more! You can set this journal up as a bell ringer activity or an early finisher journal! This bundle includes weekly activities for August through June! Each week includes three sections: Each of the 45 sheets begins with a child-friendly quote to
4th - 8th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
End of the Year Road Trip Math Project | Real World Math Project | Summer Math
Engage your students during the end of the year with this digital and printable 15-page road trip-themed test prep and end of the year math project for upper elementary! It is FUN for students and the perfect way to practice your students' math, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities. Students in upper elementary will warm up and review their math skills in a variety of ways while taking a road trip across the United States of America. The pages stand alone, so you can use a few of t
4th - 6th
Math, Other (Math)
Making Inferences Task Cards | Inferencing Activities
Inferencing is such a challenging skill to master! Use these two sets of 40 task cards (80 cards total) that help students practice making inferences and inferencing. The first 20 cards have pictures that students make inferences from. The next 20 cards have short stories that students make inferences from. There are TWO kinds of task cards included:20 Picture Task Cards (Make an inference from a picture)20 Story Task Cards (Make an inference from a story)The following different versions of th
2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Also included in: Reading Skills Task Card BUNDLE OF ALL BUNDLES
Using Pictures to Teach Figurative Language | Figurative Language Lessons
Using Pictures to Teach Figurative Language allows you to teach and review figurative language using pictures AND teach students how to apply their skills to short reading passages! With these 15 printable and digital pages, students will have the opportunity to: Observe a picture and make inferences, ask questions, make predictions, etc.Apply their knowledge of figurative language by choosing a sentence that correctly uses figurative language to describe the picture.Write their own examples
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.3.5
, L.4.5
, L.5.5
Thanksgiving Math Project Plan Thanksgiving Dinner Thanksgiving Math Activities
Your students will love planning their own Thanksgiving Dinner using this DIFFERENTIATED Thanksgiving Math Project! Thanksgiving will be here before you know it, and this 9-page Thanksgiving Math Project is just what you need to keep your students engaged BEFORE and AFTER the Thanksgiving holiday! This isn't your average plan-the-meal project! This is the original, best-selling Thanksgiving Dinner Digits project that is well-loved by teachers. It has been classroom-tested and tweaked in my cl
4th - 6th
Basic Operations, Math
Also included in: Fall Math and Literacy Activities Bundle
Reading Review Bundle | Reading Skill Comprehension Fiction and Informational
Are you ready to take your reading comprehension to the next level? This reading review bundle is the ultimate tool to help your students read and comprehend fiction and informational text. This is the best reading skill review bundle for the ENTIRE YEAR. ➡️Looking for a version for 2nd and 3rd grades? ⬅️‘Rapid Read and Review’ is available in fiction and informational versions at a 2nd and 3rd grade level. Perfect for differentiation or younger students! Rapid Read and Review is the perfect w
4th - 5th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.4.1
, RL.4.2
, RL.4.3
+54
Division Math Project | Differentiated Real-World Long Division Practice
Long division requires copious practice to master, and the best kind of practice is real-world and authentic -- that's why I created this long division math project! Engage your students with this division project designed to help them practice long division (no matter what method you teach). Extend and enrich division skills with real-world practice that doesn't feel like math! Students get to explore the ins and outs of their own movie theatre as they use their long division skills. What's
4th - 7th
Basic Operations, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
4.NBT.B.6
, 5.NBT.B.6
, 6.NS.B.2
Also included in: Long Division Activity Bundle
Mental Math Task Cards | Math Computation Practice | Daily Review
Increase number sense, math fact recall, computation skills, and problem solving with this FULL YEAR bundle of mental math task cards! Incorporating mental math problems into your daily routines can make a massive impact on your student’s automaticity with math facts and problem solving. These are a perfect companion for implementing number talks in your classroom! This mental math task card resource includes the following:8 sets of mental math task cards (416 task cards total!)Answer Keys & Re
3rd - 5th
Math, Mental Math
Also included in: The ULTIMATE Math Task Card Bundle
Fractions Math Project | Fraction Skills Real-World Activities in a Bakery
Engage and challenge your students with a real-world, authentic fraction project that is digital and printable! This project-based learning activity includes 13 Pages of fraction practice aligned to critical fraction skills and concepts. What skills are covered in Breaking Up the Bakery: A Real-World Fractions Project? So many! You can pick and choose from the following:Identifying, Drawing, and Writing FractionsEquivalent FractionsMixed Numbers & Improper FractionsReducing Fractions to Simple
5th - 7th
Fractions, Math
Also included in: Fraction Operations Activities
Fluency Task Cards Oral Reading Fluency Practice | Science of Reading
A HUGE (discounted) bundle of 128 Fluency Task Cards with varied sentence types to help your students practice their oral reading fluency! Perfect small group, whole group, or independent center fluency activity. This is a combination bundle of my 4 Fluency Task Card Products:Original Mixed Fluency Practice Task CardsAffixes Fluency Task CardsDialogue Fluency Task CardsExpression & Punctuation Task CardsIncludes both a PRINTABLE and DIGITAL version of each card. **Note: This resource has receive
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills | Reading Comprehension Lessons
Are you reading to take your skill-based reading comprehension instruction to the next level? Using Pictures to Teach and Review Reading Skills is a well-loved, teacher-approved method that has become a staple in classrooms across the globe. This resource includes FIVE printable for each of the reading skills below ( a total of 40 pages): InferencingMain IdeaCause & EffectCompare & ContrastSequencingFact & OpinionStory ElementsPoint of View How is this resource organized?There are three componen
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Using Pictures for Reading Skills | Reading Comprehension
Are you reading to take your skill-based reading comprehension instruction to the next level? Using Pictures to Teach and Review Reading Skills is a well-loved, teacher-approved method that has become a staple in classrooms across the globe. This huge, discounted bundle includes 90 printable (and DIGITAL!) pages to teach, review, and apply reading and writing skills! The following Using Pictures to Teach Reading resources are included:Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills: Includes 40 pages t
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Early Finisher Task Cards Bundle
Your early finishers will be engaged every minute of the day with this bundle of 3 of my very popular DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Early Finisher Task Cards! There are 108 Task Cards TOTAL in this bundle! (108 printable task cards and 160 digital Google Slides activities!)Included in this huge set of early finisher task cards are Creative & Critical Thinking Task Cards, Math Task Cards, and Language Arts Task Cards. Keep your students engaged in meaningful work, even when they have finished thei
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Math
Using Pictures to Teach Parts of Speech | Grammar Lessons and Activities
Teach and review five common parts of speech using pictures AND teach students how to apply their skills to short reading passages! With these 16 digital and printable pages, students will have the opportunity to observe a picture and make inferences, ask questions, make predictions, etc., practice a wide variety of parts of speech skills based on the picture, and apply the part of speech to a short passage. There are a total of 16 printable pages (3 for each skill plus one for nouns AND verb
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
L.3.5a
, L.4.5
, L.4.5a
+4
Main Idea vs. Theme | Task Cards
Main Idea and Theme are tricky topics that your students can MASTER with this resource! Engage your students in understanding the difference between the main idea of a story and the theme of a story with these 16 unique, DIFFERENTIATED task cards that are printable and digital. *This is the original Main Idea vs. Theme resource!* The cards include 16 original stories. Set #1 includes a prompt card encouraging students to see the difference between main idea and theme as well as 16 half page c
4th - 6th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Also included in: ADVANCED Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
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About the store
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Welcome to Teaching With a Mountain View! My name is Mary, and I am currently teaching in the classroom and passionate about creating hands-on, engaging activities that students (and teachers!) will love. Whether you're a classroom teacher looking to increase engagement and supplement your curriculum, a homeschool parent looking for best practices in educating your child, or an interventionist or GT Facilitator, I've got something for you!
I have taught third, fourth, and fifth grade. I have also served as an interventionist for grades K-5 and TAG Coordinator & Teacher. I am currently a Gifted Facilitator/Teacher for students in grades K-3.
My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to share ideas that enrich your content, engage your learners, and inspire your teaching.
Teaching style
I believe in inquiry-based education, student-centered learning, and a classroom full of students learning at their appropriate level! Differentiation is at the heart of my classroom, and I hope to reach other teachers trying to differentiate for their kids.
My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to create engaging learning activities that stretch student thinking and increase student buy-in, provide opportunities that enrich the lives of students and teachers with thoughtful resources and ideas, and inspire an absolute love of learning and teaching.
My own education history
Bachelor's Degree in English and Elementary Education
MA in Curriculum and Instruction and endorsement in Talented and Gifted Education
M.Ed. in Social Emotional Learning
Endorsement in Gifted and Talented Education
I am trained in and LOVE the Orton-Gillingham approach (including advanced comprehension and word study), Thinking Maps, and Responsive Classroom. I spent the first seven years of my career teaching in an International Baccalaureate School, and several years of that were in a Spanish Immersion classroom. My current school is implementing 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Classroom.
Additional biographical information
I live in the beautiful mountains of Colorado (my mountain view!) with my three darling girls, one very large bernedoodle who is fairly certain he’s human, and my ridiculously supportive husband. Family first. Always.
In our spare time, we love to explore the mountains. I’m a self-professed Peloton addict, and I balance out all the hard work on the bike with a ton of baking. A ton. Really, it’s a lot. Send me your favorite recipe, and I’ll probably bake it tonight because I can find a reason to #celebrateeverything.
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