This is my fourth year teaching. I taught K for one year and 2nd for 3 years. I am currently a K-2 teacher at a private school that a couple of colleagues and I founded! It's been an exciting year :)
You can also check out my blog:
www.msdurning.blogspot.com
This unit contains:
Moon KWL Chart
Crater Lab 1
Crater Lab 2
Phases of the Moon Flip Book
Layers of the Earth Dessert
Layers of the Earth Labeling Worksheet
Layers of the Earth Graphing
Layers of the Earth Graphing Questions
Planet Lap Book Overview
Planet Lap Book Organizers
Report Graphic Organizer
Review Sheet
Assessments
How I use this unit:
I teach science twice a week for 30 minutes and break it up like this:
Lesson 1- Moon KWL. Show a variety of pictures.
Lesson 2- Crater labs. I s
All activities are hands-on and concludes with an assessment.
*What's the Matter? A fill in the blank introduction.
*Molecular model of a solid, liquid, and gas.
*Solid, liquid, and gas cut/paste (activity or assessment)
*Evaporation experiment (liquid to gas)
*Dancing raisins experiment (gas)
*Magic balloon experiment (chemical change and gas)
*Cornstarch experiment (liquid to solid)
*Physical VS Chemical change explanation and experiment
*Physical VS Chemical baking soda experiment
*Ice c
This poetry packet includes posters/examples for the following types of poems and includes student templates to create their own poetry book.
-Acrostic
-Autobiography
-Cinquain
-Color
-Diamante
-Haiku
-Rhyming
-Concrete/shape
-Onomatopoeia
-Alliteration
A variety of K-2 games and activities to use throughout the month of March relating to St. Patrick's Day. There are 60 slides and meet a variety of learning needs and styles.
Math Activities:
-Lucky Charms Graphing by 1's
-Lucky Charms Graphing by 2's (for advanced learners)
-Lucky Charms Estimation
-Lucky Charms Estimation (with pictures for ELL or emergent learners)
-Tally Mark Charms
-Tally Mark Charms (with pictures for ELL or emergent learners)
-Charming Fractions
-Lucky Charms Additio
Alphabet recognition sheets that include say, color, find, and trace portions.
There is one sheet for each letter of the alphabet. This is perfect for morning work, homework, centers, or just warm-up exercises.
A fun K-3 hands-on experiment complete with a teacher's manual, student lab, and emergent learner lab.
This is my all time favorite science experiment!
This product includes:
Magnet KWL chart
Magnet scavenger hunt
Magnet cut/paste
Magnet fishing game
Attract VS repel lab
Magnet strength lab (4 variations)
Just passing through lab
Sticky situation lab
Word find
Crossword puzzle
Study guide
Test
This is an assessment tool to assess your K students before they come into K (prescreening) or use it throughout the year to track growth. It includes the following:
-written name
-lowercase letters
-uppercase letters
-sounds
-pre-primer sight words
-1-20 number recognition
-counting
-ordinal positions
-relative positions
-patterns
-comparison
-shape recognition
Small unit guide to go along with a Sun and Earth Unit.
I teach about the Sun and Earth before I head into the Solar System. If you're looking for something a little more thorough, you can check out my Solar System Unit. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Solar-System-Science-Unit-K-3
This contains 4 procedural writing exercises:
1. How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
2. How to make a snowman
3. How to make ____ recipe
4. How to blow a bubble
1st - 3rd
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing-Expository
These games are intended for the K-2 audience. Each activity is easily differentiated for a variety of learning needs. The activities included are:
Jelly bean estimation
Graphing by 1's
Graphing by 2's
Jelly bean fractions
Carrot measurement with jelly beans
Carrot measurement to the nearest inch
Carrot measurement to the nearest half inch
Money game
Addition bump
Subtraction bump
Bingo board
Mystery number game
Easter egg word problems
Greater than less than carrots
I also included pictures
This product contains 8 math centers appropriate for K-3. They are easy prep and low on ink.
Each center also includes student-friendly directions with example.
Center 1- Clock Matching
Time to the hour and half hour only.
Prep: print, laminate, and cut
Center 2- AM/PM Cut and Paste
Prep: print
Center 3- Clock Dominoes
Time to the hour and half hour only.
Prep: print, laminate, and cut
Center 4- What Time is it?
Time to the hour and half hour only.
Prep: print, laminate, and cut
Center
This product includes:
Hot chocolate craft and writing activity
Snowman soup recipe card
Hot chocolate bulletin board caption
Christmas present craft, gift tags, and writing activity
Christmas present bulletin board caption
Homework passes
Bookmarks
Cookie mix mason jar recipe cards
Gingerbread synonym matching game and recording sheet
Mitten antonym matching game and recording sheet
Stocking homophone matching game and recording sheet
Letter to Santa template
Reindeer applicati
A fun way to celebrate Valentine's Day academically. There are a variety of activities and games to use with candy/conversation hearts. Activities include:
Graphing
Fractions
Tallying
Grids
Addition
Greater than less than
Pie chart
Games include:
Bump (both color and black and white)
Grid math (both color and black and white)
Bingo
This includes:
Pictures of my interactive bulletin board and the pieces (the text; scenery is cardstock)
3 labs (evaporation, condensation, precipitation)
Water cycle bracelet activity
Assessment
Pattern calendar pieces for the entire school year! Just print, laminate, then cut and you're all set. They are 2.5x2.5 in size.
August
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
Monthly writing prompts for August-June. Can be used for writer's workshop, homework, morning work, etc.! The number of sentences is left blank so that you can differentiate. Some students may be able to write 5, while others only 2.
How to use this product:
1.Print as many copies of the “read, make, write” mats as you need.
2.For each copy, print the letters (or use magnetic letters or tiles if you already own them), and a set of word cards.
3.Laminate for durability.
*I print a different color letter set for each mat that way if 2 students are working near each other they don’t accidently take each others letters.
*I also laminate a few blank letter cards and tell my students if they can’t find a letter, just write
For spelling homework, my students complete a speller's choice activity each Thursday. They get a new speller's choice list each month so that spelling homework doesn't get boring. I tried to incorporate a variety of activities for different learning styles. My kids love the activities. It is a Word document so you can alter the assignments as you see fit.
K - 6th
Reading, Spelling, Writing
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Experience
This is my fourth year teaching. I taught K for one year and 2nd for 3 years. I am currently a K-2 teacher at a private school that a couple of colleagues and I founded! It's been an exciting year :)
You can also check out my blog:
www.msdurning.blogspot.com
Teaching style
I believe that learning needs to be hands-on, engaging, and meaningful. I support Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences because I truly do believe that nobody can learn the same way.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Published in Mailbox Magazine 5 times. Published in Differentiation Daily. Recognized as a top 50 elementary teacher blog. Highlighted on Debbie Diller's blog http://debbiediller.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/a-classroom-from-clifton-park-ny/
My own education history
I attended Oneonta State where I obtained a degree in childhood education. I received my Master's degree at the University of Albany in literacy. I have the following NY certifications:
early childhood B-2
childhood 1-6
literacy specialist B-6
literacy specialist 5-12
Additional biographical information
I have a dog Oliver, a cat Kloey, a kitten Ivy, and a new husband, Eric!
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