I have been teaching for more than 20 years! It seems like yesterday when I was a nervous, first-year teacher with 27 third graders! I owe quite a bit to that first class; they taught me so much about motivation, management, and the importance of building relationships. Teaching is a calling I embraced more than 20 years ago. Oh, the memories I have and continue to build!
Are you looking for resources to teach What if You Had Animal Teeth and more? This resource is for you! It contains activities for all the books in the Sandra Markle What if You Had Animal...? series. How It Works:►Introduce simple research and fact recording after reading one of the books. ►There are writing templates for each animal adaptation with space for recording facts and an illustration. ►Use the graphic organizer to help students organize their thoughts. ►Writing templates for each ad
Are you looking for a map skills resource? This resource is packed with map skills: map keys, grid maps, and scale maps. Your students will also create a map of their classroom and their bedroom. There is a home project with a parent letter. Plus, a template for making a tab map booklet with writing templates is included. Your students will learn so much with these map activities! How it Works:►Students will learn about map keys, grid maps, and map scale. ►There are practice pages along with h
Are you looking for resources to teach an introduction of cells to your students? Learn about the basics of animal and plant cells with this resource. Label cells and learn the cell parts of plants and animals! Your students will become experts on cells in no time! Included:Seven colorful mini posters about cells (color and black & white)Four informational text passages about cells with bolded vocabulary wordsDiscussion questions for each information text passageAnswer keys for each page of disc
Are you looking for a fun way to teach Tennessee culture and history, including cultural ideas like music, celebrations and foods, as well as the historically significant events in Tennessee's history? This resource is packed with activities to teach your students about Tennessee's history and culture. Add your paper, grocery bags and use the foldables and patterns to make an adorable Tennessee Vest! Included in This Resource:23 pages for a student booklet related to culture and history12 pag
Are you looking for a map resource with map key, scale, political, theme, grid maps and so much more? This bundle has map informational texts, worksheets and activities related to map skills. It's packed with resources your students need to master map skills. Included from my Map Skills resource: Five-Page Map Flip Book (My House, My Town, My State, My Country, and My Continent) *NOTE: This is also in my Mega Map productMap of My Room Template with KeyMap of Our Classroom Template with KeyMake
Are you looking for a resource to teach types of maps? This Mega Maps resource has everything you need to teach General Reference Maps, Thematic Maps, Political Maps, and Landmark Maps. Teach types of maps with this packed resource! How it Works:Included in the resource are informational text pieces about each type of map with my own definition foldable for your interactive notebooks or social studies journals. Key vocabulary words are bolded in each of the informational text passages. It's 'pr
Do you need place value, standard form, and expanded form activities? These football-themed, place value expanded form worksheets and games are perfect to supplement your textbook, add more engaging activities in your math lessons, AND save you precious time! Be sure to look at the preview for a detailed view of what is included. How does it work?► Use the math stations and practice pages for your students to practice or review these important skills. ► The quarterback and cheerleader theme
Your students will love this Halloween narrative writing activity to describe how they trapped a monster in a jar! Use the exemplar stories to motivate your students. Practice adjectives with the practice pages included. There are organizers, acrostic poem templates and monster themed mini-posters promoting the writing process. Display students' monster in a jar, Halloween narrative writing for all to see and admire! It is easy for you, because it is print and go! Plus, it is very engaging for y
Are you looking for sentence editing worksheets? These sentence editing worksheets are a great tool to help students improve their writing and attention to detail. Students will correct capitalization, punctuation and spelling errors. They will write sentences correctly to practice these skills. This bundle of editing sentences worksheets and task cards for the year will help you help your students hone their attention to detail when writing sentences. How It Works:►The Fix-It sentences will h
Teach your students about arrays and repeated addition in preparation for multiplication. Use the reflection pages as exit tickets to gauge the success of your lesson. Activities in this freebie are correlated with CCSS for second and third grades. In this freebie, you'll receive:6 X 5 -- Hooray for Arrays Page - Try Dot Painters for High Engagement!10 X 10 Hooray for Arrays Page1 Spin an Array Game Pages1 page of Reflection Slips -- These are great for quick, informal assessments before or aft
Are you looking to add research about the food chain into your reading block? Learning about a food chain is fun for students. This resource is filled with activities to integrate informational reading into your science lessons. Make a food chain mobile! It is also packed with vocabulary, games, research organizers and an adorable culminating craft! Teacher Tips:Oil pastels make stunning illustrations. Hold share time to allow your students show off their research skills!Included:Templates and i
This introduction to division is perfect for beginners and great practice for those who need remediation. It includes division worksheets through which students learn to separate sets from the whole. There are plenty of practice pages with supports for learners; pages with pictures to circle and divide, pages with space for learners to draw pictures and pages with just division problems to solve. You'll find everything you need to teach and review division with dividends to 50! Here's How It W
Mooseltoe, A Wish to be a Christmas Tree, and Hurry, Santa are terrific mentor texts for your Christmas activities. This resource features comprehension, roots and suffixes, antonyms, story problems, writing, and open ended questioning. The three books are wonderful and perfect for teaching numerous skills during December. This resource includes activities and crafts for three popular Christmas books: Mooseltoe by Margie Palatini Hurry, Santa! by Julie Sykes A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Co
Are you looking for skip counting by 2, 5, and 10 resources? Use this challenging set of resources to boost your students' foundational skills in number sense. This resource also has skip counting by 100. This is an important foundational skill for many math concepts. In this set of activities, students are skip counting using three-digit numbers. This resource even has assessments ready for you! The task cards, board game, and scoot have plentiful skip counting opportunities by 2, 5, and 10, b
Are you looking for a Contractions Surgery activity to teach contractions? Students love becoming the surgeon or nurse to perform surgery to create contractions. You'll love this resource because it is low prep -- unless you want to go all out with masks, "scalpels" and the works! I have included instructions for doing that! Answer keys are provided for the assessments and practice pages. There are plenty of contraction worksheets included for independent practice. Included in this product (Che
Are you looking for resources to teach changing states of matter? Teaching changing states of matter is engaging and fun with this variety of activities and worksheets. Integrate science and literacy with the informational passages on states of matter, physical and chemical changes, mixtures and solutions. How it Works:► Read the informational passages on solids, liquids, gases, physical changes, chemical changes, mixtures and solutions. ► Check comprehension using the response pages that coord
Are you looking for 2-digit addition, 2-digit subtraction, 3-digit addition, and 3-digit subtraction with regrouping resources? Do you need to supplement your textbook's activities? This product is a perfect to help your your students improve their 2-digit and 3-digit addition and subtraction regrouping skills! The practice pages are easy on the ink, too! Plus, the cute western theme is a fun addition! How does it work?There are practice pages for 2 and 3-digit addition and subtraction in a fun
Do your students love sharing biography research reports about what they have learned about famous Americans? Yes? This biography research project is perfect for you! It has everything you need to help your students create their own mini famous American. How it's Done:Teach your research learning standards with this resource. Students will conduct their own biography research model by reading informational texts, taking notes, and creating a mini-American as a school or home project. They will
Are you looking for resources to teach counting money, making change, and adding amounts of coins? Counting money is a fun concept children love. You will have many resources at your fingertips to teach money skills! There are worksheets, centers, word problems and even tips and support materials for having your own class yard sale. Centers Included: Money Pretest with KeyMoney Posttest with KeyCha-Ching! Change Back- finding a sales total and determining change due Froggy Goes Shopping -- bui
Are you looking for sentence editing worksheets to help your students improve capitalization, punctuation, and spelling skills? Using these daily sentence editing worksheets will help your students with capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. No more searching for resources to supplement your textbook or curriculum. Here is your solution! This resource is easy for you to implement! Just print and go! In addition to polishing editing skills, this resource challenges students to write more de
I have been teaching for more than 20 years! It seems like yesterday when I was a nervous, first-year teacher with 27 third graders! I owe quite a bit to that first class; they taught me so much about motivation, management, and the importance of building relationships. Teaching is a calling I embraced more than 20 years ago. Oh, the memories I have and continue to build!
Teaching style
Fun, active and creative! If I'm not having fun, how can my students?
Lover of Whole Brain Teaching, Integrated Studies, Project-Based Learning, Number Talks, Hands-On Science and Children's Literature to name a few!
Awards & shining teacher moments
I have been honored to be selected as Teacher of the Year in three different schools. I have served as a mentor teacher to student teachers, building leadership teams, and a consultant to school faculties.
Most importantly, I've had the honor of working with loads of fun and energetic children! This is my greatest honor.
My own education history
Bachelor's Degree
Master's Degree
Additional biographical information
I love traveling. My goal is to get a stamp from every Caribbean island! My heart is drawn to animals. I have five cats, two donkeys, a border collie, and a handful of cattle who keep me company and give me great stories to tell my students.
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