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Just Tinkerin' Around!
United States - Texas - Allen
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"Fiddling with Files for a Creative Classroom! Come see how at http://JustTinkerinAround.blogspot.com".
FEATURED ITEMS
This pack is a short supplement to use with your 3D shape unit!
It contains 5 pages of printable materials:
-One "Poster" of 3D Shape Attri...
Have students practice their science classification skills with this animal sort. Easy to use, with great visuals! Just cut and paste animals i...
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45 Minutes
I've combined a few of my nonfiction items into one pack! This pack includes 2 different nonfiction activities: a nonfiction acrostic where stud...
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3 Days
This pack is great to use during your animal "classes" unit! It includes the 6 different animal classifications: mammals, fish, birds, reptiles,...
Use this UPDATED 5 question worksheet to quickly assess your students' knowledge of Food Chains!
Questions refer to the 5 step food chain on...
This 22 page pack is an awesome resource to use during your Natural Disasters/Natural Hazards Unit! It includes 8 full page "posters" of the fol...
Students can use this 2 page (10 question) quiz with just about any nonfiction book! Open ended questions ask students to located specific featu...
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30 Minutes
A quick, 8 question worksheet about Non-Fiction text features. Includes 6 "matching" and 2 true/false questions.
While this page does not inclu...
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30 Minutes
This is a great pack to purchase for Reader's Theater. While it does not contain any Reader's Theater scripts, it does have all the necessary it...
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1 Week
Use this neat and organized rubric to quickly grade your students' research projects. I use it for any non-fiction based assignment-- "All About...
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Use this Coupon Book "craftivity" as a fun project for Mother's Day!
Inside, you will find 34 pages of varying options for various levels of stu...
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2 Days
This 20 page pack includes lots of teaching resources to help with idioms! You get 10 "posters" with idioms and their meanings, a few activites,...
For a simple but fun "End of Year" gift to your students, try inexpensive beach balls! (I know this is an "age old" gift, but every year the stu...
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This poetry pack was created by many ideas coming together to form one amazing unit! By using sensory words, students can pick their own topic an...
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1 Week
After studying the different ways to make a long "i" sound, have students practice spelling and sorting with this activity! Students receive a ...
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45 Minutes
Use this empty table to help students practice writing numbers in different ways!
This has columns for the digit/standard form, the picture wi...
Use this file as a master template for all the items you need during this fun "craftivity"!
You and your students will create the outside of a...
Have students practice shapes at home! With this book, students can work with their parents, siblings, and others to write a sentence, draw a pi...
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Robert Munsch is a truly inspirational writer to expose your students to! Just like a few other well-known children's authors, Robert Munsch str...
Popsicle Possibilities is a fun Science experiment you can use with all ages!
This experiment has students guess how many licks and bites it w...
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1 hour
FEEDBACK
mamasherri
I was so happy to see this! unsure of how to teach this portion of geometry with full clarity and it work excellent. Thank you!
June 19, 2013
sgenlund
I plan on using this activity for a 3rd/4th Grade Math Camp this Summer!
June 19, 2013
louisedunstan
THIS WILL BE GREAT FOR MY CLASS IN THE FALL THANK YOU
June 19, 2013
abender83
This is great! I can't wait to use it for centers with my first graders!!
June 19, 2013
michelebates
Can't wait to use this with my 3rd graders. Looks easy to use and gives lots of practice.
June 19, 2013
jill456
love it!
June 17, 2013
ATeacher4ever1
Looks great! Thanks!
June 17, 2013
missyjj
Thank You!
June 17, 2013
melissascalise
Awesome!!!
June 16, 2013
shannonlovesmean
Thanks for sharing!
June 16, 2013
oenne
thanks!
June 16, 2013
wberthelot
Thank you
June 16, 2013
dbienhoff
Terrific! will be using.
June 16, 2013
ktvolley
Great!!
June 15, 2013
wyomingwinds
great resource! thanks
June 15, 2013
rrks
Great way to explore shapes~ thanks!
June 15, 2013
dwrocketmom
Can't wait to try it out!
June 14, 2013
BrandieNielson
Thanks!
June 14, 2013
nermo23
it's wonderful aide
June 13, 2013
Ashley Rechkemmer
Thanks!
June 12, 2013
sjoa
Thanks!
June 12, 2013
April Langford (TpT Seller)
I look forward to using this activity with my students next year - this will be great practice/review for them and it looks like something that will be fun for them as well - thanks for sharing!
June 12, 2013
denadooley
I am so glad I found this site. I look forward to using this resource in my room next year.
(denadooley@juno.com
(denadooley@juno.com
June 12, 2013
Sara314
This is a great resource. Perhaps the addition of little 2D or 3D shapes could be added. I love it. Perfect for the year 3s.
June 12, 2013
lilyABCD123
this is a great resource:)
June 11, 2013
Wcarterfrv
Awesome!
June 10, 2013
Rebecca Christ (TpT Seller)
Even though I teach 4th grade, I think I will be able to still use this resource! Thanks! :)
June 10, 2013
LNeal0528
Love it great for SPED
June 10, 2013
Sweet Integrations (TpT Seller)
I saw your store on the Sale list. I downloaded your freebie and will take a deeper look at your other products.
Hope you drop by my store and download my Back to School Trading Cards and rate it. I have lots of other products you may like. (especially ones with a Texas theme)
I'm your newest follower. Hope you follow a fellow Texan for new updates. :) Sandy
Hope you drop by my store and download my Back to School Trading Cards and rate it. I have lots of other products you may like. (especially ones with a Texas theme)
I'm your newest follower. Hope you follow a fellow Texan for new updates. :) Sandy
June 10, 2013
jeniferlgreen
Love it! Thanks!
June 10, 2013
Cubby33
Thank you for this freebie - great idea, love it
June 10, 2013
ema3
I love all of your activities and posters! This and the Shape Sort are fabulous! You make my life so much easier!
Thanks!
Thanks!
June 9, 2013
farmfour
I am going to use this starting this school year.
June 9, 2013
ammielscott
Thank you!!
June 9, 2013
ampfam
Love it! Thanks!
June 9, 2013
LKirst
perfect for this week. So cute and "clean"...both of which I LOVE!
June 9, 2013
gmakids
Thank you so much....My grandson will doing this1
June 8, 2013
gcordwell
Thanks. Just what I was looking for. A great time saver.
June 8, 2013
ISAACYVONNE
Going to tie this in with a math lesson.
June 7, 2013
dperales
Thank you!
June 7, 2013
swishjoa
Very helpful
June 7, 2013
bladen21
Thank you for creating this! My students will love to do this activity!! :)
June 7, 2013
VictorEn
thanks for this!!
June 5, 2013
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
karenegrimes
Good morning! I am a first grade teacher, formerly PK teacher. I just finished my masters in May (yea!) with a degree in Mind, Brain and Education – a subfield of education. The first program was started at Harvard by Howard Gardner and Kurt Fisher (if you haven’t read any of Kurt Fisher’s work on Skill Theory and you are interested in the cognitive processes involved in learning, you must read his work!)
Cut to the chase. When I moved up from PK to 1st I was shocked by my students’ lack of number sense. I spent an entire year and all last summer trying to figure out what was missing. In Nov I attended a workshop that on number sense. When I heard the presentation I recognized all the “big” names of the research I had been investigating. The workshop was a training session for an iPad app (Native Numbers). It seemed like a valid, robust app, but I am a skeptic and had to know: would this really work.
I am here to tell you that with the first skill set I saw every cognitive model of learning embedded in this app. I also realized that this app is more than a learning tool; it has built in formative and summative assessment as it is adaptive and levels up and down based on student performance and leads to mastery.
Now I am on a “mission” – everything we read tells us our students are lacking number sense. I believe this app is a fabulous tool to remediate those deficits. I have no vested interest in this app except that I am one of those people that has to solve problems and when I think I have found possible answers, I have to share that with others. Our kids are too important not to share---which is why I love reading blogs! I am asking for teachers to simply read the research and then try out the app and give me feedback---or give the feedback yourself to the developers. I am that convinced. I am not a salesman and I feel quite strange in this new role I have taken upon myself…but I have nothing to lose, or gain, except knowing that maybe we can have an enormous impact on our students!
If you have any questions, please e-mail me at tatergraderswife@yahoo.com Check out the app at www.nativebrain.com – you can find the background of the developers and read about the research behind the app. You can also watch a video on that site or go to these YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF20_4GRtks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uuw0jtvfYI
I know this was long, so thanks for reading. Please let me know if you have questions!!!
Rene Grimes, M.Ed.
Cut to the chase. When I moved up from PK to 1st I was shocked by my students’ lack of number sense. I spent an entire year and all last summer trying to figure out what was missing. In Nov I attended a workshop that on number sense. When I heard the presentation I recognized all the “big” names of the research I had been investigating. The workshop was a training session for an iPad app (Native Numbers). It seemed like a valid, robust app, but I am a skeptic and had to know: would this really work.
I am here to tell you that with the first skill set I saw every cognitive model of learning embedded in this app. I also realized that this app is more than a learning tool; it has built in formative and summative assessment as it is adaptive and levels up and down based on student performance and leads to mastery.
Now I am on a “mission” – everything we read tells us our students are lacking number sense. I believe this app is a fabulous tool to remediate those deficits. I have no vested interest in this app except that I am one of those people that has to solve problems and when I think I have found possible answers, I have to share that with others. Our kids are too important not to share---which is why I love reading blogs! I am asking for teachers to simply read the research and then try out the app and give me feedback---or give the feedback yourself to the developers. I am that convinced. I am not a salesman and I feel quite strange in this new role I have taken upon myself…but I have nothing to lose, or gain, except knowing that maybe we can have an enormous impact on our students!
If you have any questions, please e-mail me at tatergraderswife@yahoo.com Check out the app at www.nativebrain.com – you can find the background of the developers and read about the research behind the app. You can also watch a video on that site or go to these YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF20_4GRtks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uuw0jtvfYI
I know this was long, so thanks for reading. Please let me know if you have questions!!!
Rene Grimes, M.Ed.
June 8, 2013
nrempe re: Food Chain Unit Vocabulary and Matching Worksheet!
Super cute in the quick look...but after downloading your product, there are areas on the page that are blurred out. Could you please fix these areas or send me a copy another way?
Thanks!
Nicole
nrempe@baxter.k12.ia.us
Thanks!
Nicole
nrempe@baxter.k12.ia.us
April 8, 2013
beckyjarboe
Thanks for your free shape sort! I'm just wondering what you give the kids to sort. Do you give them the actual 3D shapes, or objects of those shapes? Thanks!
I would love to have your long a pack! Thanks!
bdjarbo@carrollk12.org
I would love to have your long a pack! Thanks!
bdjarbo@carrollk12.org
March 29, 2013
dkimble
Couldn't figure out how to send you my email Dolores.Kimble@berrien.k12.ga.us Is this right? I downloaded freebie, rated it and followed you.
March 26, 2013
vbiggs re: Animal Classification Pack- Describing 6 Animal Classes
I just purchased your pack and realized that the sentences in the Guess My Classification cards don't have a capital I at the beginning of them. I realize that this is probably an issue with the font selected, but I'm concerned that it will be confusing to my first grade students. Are you able to send me a version with the i capitalized on page 20 of the packet?
If so, my email address is vbiggs@fusd1.org.
Thank you!
Ginni Biggs
If so, my email address is vbiggs@fusd1.org.
Thank you!
Ginni Biggs
March 6, 2013
Just Tinkerin' Around! (TpT Seller)
Hi Ginni!
Thanks for purchasing the packet. I totally understand what you're talking about with the lowercase "i"s. I'll tell you what-- I'm off all this week for Spring Break, so let me work on it and I'll email you the updated version as soon as I finish. Have a great afternoon!
Jillian
Thanks for purchasing the packet. I totally understand what you're talking about with the lowercase "i"s. I'll tell you what-- I'm off all this week for Spring Break, so let me work on it and I'll email you the updated version as soon as I finish. Have a great afternoon!
Jillian
March 10, 2013
Yadavselva re: Geometric Shape Sort: Drawing, Naming, and Counting Sides & Vertices
hi we are running website called www.findlocalschool.com. we are looking for lesson plans. if your interested to publish your product. we will do that. you have to give a permission to do so.
thank you
findlocalschool team
thank you
findlocalschool team
February 28, 2013
windamarie re: Incredible Idioms Pack: Helping You Teach Figurative Language!
Don't need this right now; so I can wait. Please let me know if this goes "on sale". I would like this. Looks easy and clear enough for the kids to understand quickly. Thanks!
February 9, 2013
judelawrence re: Non Fiction Text Features Worksheet
I just downloaded this and it is completely blank. I would appreciate your telling me what to do to fix this.
February 7, 2013
Just Tinkerin' Around! (TpT Seller)
Hi There! So sorry you're having problems. Please see below to the previous Q&A. Thanks!
February 7, 2013
sinzer re: Non Fiction Text Features Pack-- A Bundle of My Best Activities!
This did not download to my computer. Every page was blank. I could only see boarders on the pages. I think there is something wrong.
January 30, 2013
Just Tinkerin' Around! (TpT Seller)
Hi There!
I'm so sorry you're experiencing some technical difficulties...I'm sure that's no fun! If you wouldn't mind trying 2 things, and then if those don't work, I'll give you one more suggestion! First, make sure you have the latest Adobe viewer. I know sometimes certain files don't work well if you have an older version. Also, if you're on a Mac, try a PC. Also, it is sometimes finicky :) Finally, try scrolling all the way through to see the other pages. Some pages are "watermarked" with the red stamp, however, the other clean copies are in there too!
If that doesn't work, click up top under "My Purchases". On the top right corner, there's a box where you can contact TpT team and they can help further. Please let me know if you're still having problems later, and hopefully we can find a way to help. Thanks!
Jillian
I'm so sorry you're experiencing some technical difficulties...I'm sure that's no fun! If you wouldn't mind trying 2 things, and then if those don't work, I'll give you one more suggestion! First, make sure you have the latest Adobe viewer. I know sometimes certain files don't work well if you have an older version. Also, if you're on a Mac, try a PC. Also, it is sometimes finicky :) Finally, try scrolling all the way through to see the other pages. Some pages are "watermarked" with the red stamp, however, the other clean copies are in there too!
If that doesn't work, click up top under "My Purchases". On the top right corner, there's a box where you can contact TpT team and they can help further. Please let me know if you're still having problems later, and hopefully we can find a way to help. Thanks!
Jillian
January 30, 2013
Stickers and Stamps (TpT Seller)
Thanks so much for the shape sort. It is wonderful. I would love to have your classification sort. da_berster07@yahoo.com Thanks so much!
January 21, 2013
tmstorm1
Thanks for the shape sort! I would love to have your non-fiction text features quiz. If you could send it to tmercer@msddecatur.k12.in.us that would be great.
January 9, 2013
Creative Kindergarten Kids (TpT Seller)
Thank you so much for the geometric shape sort. I would love to have your at home shape book. If you could send it to rlewis@conwayschooldistrict.com I would appreciate it. As a fellow TPT seller, it's so nice to find a resource that is quick and easy to use! Thanks again!
December 18, 2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Hello Teachers! My name is Jillian, and I'm a 2nd grade teacher. I have been teaching 2nd grade for 2 years now. Before that, I've been a tutor, a substitute teacher, and a student myself! I love the classroom, and I love playing around on the computer. Creating useful tools is a knack that I have fallen into, and I might add-- it's rather fun! :)
MY TEACHING STYLE
Fun with boundaries! I'm sure after my team reads that, they'll disagree...somehow I've been tagged as the most strict in 2nd grade. I do, however, love my kiddos and love to have a good time! I enjoy everyday, and try to have fun in all lessons I teach!
HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT
Yet to be added
MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
Graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies (just a fancy name for Education!) from the University of North Texas in 2009. I came back to my home town afterwards, and I've been teaching here ever since!
ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Not only can tinkering around be fun....it can also help create useful items in the classroom! Thank you to Kevin and Amanda's for some of their free font downloads! Visit their amazing site @ kevinandamanda.com for wonderful resources! Thank you to LetteringDelights.com for the licensed use of their fonts, alphabets, and clip art! Visit their website at www.letteringdelights.com!
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