The Teacher's Chair - Tracey Schumacher
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Valley Cottage, New York, United States
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I began my teaching career by working three years as a fifth grade teacher. I switched to first grade where I taught for three years. I spent 5 years as a multiage teacher in a 1-2 classroom. Now I am teaching third! It's been a fabulous journey!
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Responding to Literature: The Tale of Despereaux
I am thrilled to be sharing this packet with you! The Tale of Despereaux is one of my favorite read-alouds. Your students will love responding to this story and will have many differentiated activities to do so with!
Here are Some Examples of Common Core Standards Covered in this Unit:
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their centr
1st - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
It's Science Time! Osmosis: The Vinegar and Egg Experiment
This experiment is a follow up to my FREEBIE Osmosis: Colorful Celery Experiment.
In this experiment, the students will see how vinegar dissolves the shell of a raw egg. Vinegar will pass through the membrane, causing the egg to expand.
This scientific journal is meant to accompany a vinegar/egg experiment in your classroom.
I would love to have you come visit me at The Teacher's Chair! I look forward to the opportunity to share my classroom happenings with you throughout the year!
The Teac
1st - 3rd
Science
The World According to Humphrey Reading Responses
I am thrilled to be sharing this packet with you! The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney is one of my favorite read-alouds. Your students will love responding to this story and will have many differentiated activities to do so with!
** Here are Some Examples of Common Core Standards Covered in this Unit: **
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate
2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.2.3
, RL.2.5
, RL.2.6
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Friendship According to Humphrey Book Companion
This "Friendship According to Humphrey" unit is #2 in my series of Betty G. Birney Book Companions.
Your students will love responding to this story and will have many differentiated activities to do so with!
Your students will have the opportunity to complete TWO different responses for each chapter in the book. One response will focus on a specific comprehension strategy. The other will have them analyzing the sweet & famous friendship quotes that Betty G. Birney included at the end of ea
2nd - 3rd
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
It's Science Time! Osmosis: The Great Growing Gummy Bear Experiment
This experiment is a follow up to my FREEBIE Osmosis: Colorful Celery Experiment and to the Vinegar/Egg experiment. This packet contains the most science journaling of the 3 packets and is meant to be the culminating experiment in the Osmosis series. At this point, the students will be the very familiar with the Scientific Process. This journal has been tiered to accommodate the learning that has occurred through the other two experiments.
This experiment will have your students adding plent
1st - 3rd
Science
It's ScienceTime! Crystal Making Experiment
"Hooray! It's Science Time!" That's what your students will be saying when they participate in The Crystal Experiment!
The students will work through the Scientific Method to answer the question of "What happens when you dissolve sugar (a solid) into water (a liquid) and the water starts to evaporate?" They will record the entire process in their Student Scientific Journal.
Perfect for science fairs and classroom experimenting!
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1st - 4th
Science
Decomposing Numbers with Number Bonds and Bar Models
EACH WORKSHEET IS DIFFERENTIATED FOR TWO LEVELS OF INSTRUCTION.
With enough practice with number bonds and bar models, your students will master the strategy of decomposing numbers...one of the most valuable strategies a child can master in math!
Based on Singapore Math Principles and Strategies.
Students will be able to decompose numbers using the Number Bond and Bar Model strategies.
Designed for Common Core Math Instruction.
CCLS: Mathematics, 2nd Grade, Operations and AlgebraicThinking
2nd - 3rd
Math
Cursive Alphabet Classroom Bunting
Give your cursive alphabet letters a makeover this year with this adorable bunting-style display.
Print on card stock and post individually or punch holes through the bunting and add string for an extra-sweet look!
If you like the look of this product, be sure to check out my Glitter & Chalk labels, and motivational posters, too!
Happy Decorating!
Tracey :)
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3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Handwriting, Writing
Addition Strategies for Common Core Math Instruction
It is essential for students to develop an understanding of the base 10 system and to use that system effectively in operations and algebraic thinking. This packet will help your students add within 100 by utilizing three addition strategies. You may have seen these strategies used in Everyday Math, Singapore Math and by Marilyn Burns.
PARENT INFORMATION SHEETS INCLUDED!
Parents need to be informed of the new math strategies their children are using and this packet can help! The strategies
2nd - 3rd
Math
Citing Text Evidence
Help your students be reading detectives with these "Cite Your Evidence" posters. These posters will help serve as a reminder to your students as they learn to support their answers with text evidence.
15 posters in all, with a cute detective theme (Thanks to Graphics from the Pond!).
This is a classroom set that your students will refer to all year long!
**Now with LOW INK POSTERS added with a white background behind the text.
Thank you so much for your continued interest in The Teacher's
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Problem Solving with Bar Modeling: 'Problem Solving Magic & Happily Ever After'
Your students will be solving word problems like magic with this huge Common Core problem solving workbook. For each problem type and situation, there are 6 problems for your students to solve.
This workbook can be used as a unit or throughout the year. With over 85 word problems in all...it's enough to provide meaningful and careful practice with Common Core word problems! Answer key included for your convenience.
This packet utilizes a format based on Singapore Math's RICE strategy: Recor
2nd - 3rd
Math
Paragraph Writing - The Best Part of Me
A companion project for the book entitled, "The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About Their Bodies in Pictures and Words," by Wendy Ewald.
There are so many ways and places throughout the year in which you can use this project.
Fun for the beginning of the year and perfect as a holiday gift, this is a photojournalism-paragraph writing activity that celebrates each unique student in your classroom!
You may fall so in love with the results, that they may grace your classroom walls all year! (Tha
2nd - 5th
English Language Arts, Writing
Composing Numbers Monster Put-Together Game
CCLS: Mathematics 2.0A, Operations and Algebraic Thinking
To help my students understand Composing and Decomposing Numbers, my students are taught how to play the "Composing Numbers MONSTER PUT-TOGETHER." Oh...they REALLY love this one. Basically, the kids work in partners. They each put a secret number of base 10 units into a cup (up to 10 units). They each spill out their "part" and and them together to get the "whole". Then they use the Monster Building KEY to determine what part of the
1st - 3rd
Math
Rockin the 2nd Grade Math Common Core
**PLEASE DOWNLOAD PREVIEW TO SEE VARIETY OF COMMON CORE TASKS**
Thank you for purchasing this product. In this packet you will find practice for each of the math standards covered in the 2nd Grade Common Core Math Curriculum. There are several ways that you can use this packet...
Pre-test/Post-test
Classwork/Homework
End of Year Review
Whichever way you choose, you can feel good knowing your students are getting quality math practice in. Please remember, the Common Core is designed to dev
2nd - 3rd
Math
It's Science Time! The Great Potato Chip Challenge
"Hooray! It's Science Time!" That's what your students will be saying when they participate in The Great Potato Chip Challenge!
The students will work through the Scientific Method to answer the question of "How much fat will we find in different types of potato chips?" They will record the entire process in an 18 page Student Scientific Journal.
***The file is 60 pages long because three packets are included in all, each with a different type of handwriting lines suitable for different grad
2nd - 5th
Other (Science), Science
Problem Solving With Bar Modeling: Primary Grades
Your students will be solving word problems like magic with this huge Common Core problem solving workbook. For each problem type and situation, there are 6 problems for your students to solve.
This unit is based on First Grade problem solving, but would also be perfect for RTI at the second (or even third!) grade level!
This workbook can be used as a unit or throughout the year. With over 85 word problems in all...it's enough to provide meaningful and careful practice with Common Core word
1st - 3rd
Math, Other (Math)
It's Science Time! Osmosis: The Colorful Celery Experiment
Are you teaching your students about osmosis?
Perhaps it is part of your science curriculum, or maybe you want to just do a little experimenting...
The Colorful Celery Experiment is the perfect introduction to Osmosis. Your students will learn how water moves with this fun experiment.
This science journal freebie is the perfect companion to the experiment and will introduce or reinforce the Scientific Process.
Be sure to follow up this experiment with the "Vinegar Egg" and "Great Growing
1st - 3rd
Science
"Feel Good" Motivational Posters
Your students will feel great as they read these motivational posters around your classroom!
Terrific for framing or laminating.
Titles Include:
Today is a great day to learn something new
Keep calm and ask the teacher
Shoot for the moon...even if you miss, you'll land among stars
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Mistakes are proof that you are trying
Be a bucket filler
Always try your best
Show that you are responsible
Be a good citizen
Respect yourself and others
Why fit in when yo
1st - 6th
For All Subjects
Turkey Opinion Writing
Have you read "A Turkey for Thanksgiving" by Eve Bunting? If you haven't read this to your class, please do...it always has my students on the edge of their little seats. Once, one of them called out, "It's a nail-biter!" It is an adorable Thanksgiving story with a very happy ending for Mr. Turkey - and we all loved that!
Here is a FREEBIE that you can use to go along with it:
There are two copies for differentiated responses. My first graders are just beginning to learn how to write a par
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts
Measuring Cats and Dogs (In Order to Meet Common Core Standards)
Your students will have fun practicing measuring with inches and centimeters with this activity & packet that contains adorable Ashley Hughes Graphics!
Before they know it, your students will have measured their way through these Common Core Standards:
2.MD.2
Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements.
2.MD.4
Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length in terms of a standard length unit
1st - 3rd
Math, Measurement
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About the store
Experience
I began my teaching career by working three years as a fifth grade teacher. I switched to first grade where I taught for three years. I spent 5 years as a multiage teacher in a 1-2 classroom. Now I am teaching third! It's been a fabulous journey!
Teaching style
The key to running my classroom is all about the differentiation. I run a lot of "workshops" where I could pull my students into small instructional groups based on need. I like to plan fun and crafty lessons with plenty of time to share and move around the classroom. It is important for me to involve my students in their own learning by helping them to assess and reflect upon their work.
Behind my classroom door, my students know that I will sing and dance right along with them. We are always each others' best audience!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Summa Cum Laude Manhattanville College, Regular & Special Education Teaching Program
Magna Cum Laude, Quinnipiac University, Undergraduate Studies
Technology Grant Awardee for Classroom Promethean Board
My own education history
BA in Legal Studies from Quinnipiac University
MPS in Regular and Special Education from Manhattanville College
Additional biographical information
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