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With over 17 years of teaching experience in 1st and 2nd grades, I am dedicated to promoting equity, inclusion, and personalized learning. As an elementary equity and inclusion coach, I collaborated with educators to ensure equitable access to educational opportunities. I have served as the 504 Monitor, overseeing support plans for K-5 students, and facilitated as a Culturally Responsive Teacher trainer, empowering staff with strategies to create inclusive environments and materials. Additionally, I am passionate about creativity and drawing. I love sharing my clipart designs in hopes that they can help enhance learning materials and classroom aesthetics. I am passionate about including my experiences into everything I create and share!
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Halloween STEM Activities Bonaparte Falls Apart
Build a skeleton tower with an engaging STEM challenge, create unique skeleton art, or teach a fun, fall themed guided reading unit featuring multiple comprehension skills extensions and worksheets. This book companion unit for Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for fall in the classroom or an exciting Halloween themed learning experience. Included in this easy to implement product:Comprehension Skill Activi
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
Digital STEM Activities Bundle | STEM Challenges & Engineering Design Process
Looking for engaging digital STEM activities, STEM challenges, and engineering design process templates for your classroom? This interactive Digital STEM Activities Bundle helps students imagine, brainstorm, design, and create using Google Slides™ or PowerPoint while developing critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and engineering skills.Perfect for STEM centers, science lessons, engineering projects, early finishers, gifted learners, project-based learning, and makerspace activities,
1st - 5th
Engineering, Graphic Arts, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
+2
How to Catch a Snowman STEM STEAM Reading Comprehension and Writing Activities
Engage your students this winter with a hands-on STEM/STEAM challenge, creative art projects, and reading comprehension activities all centered around the beloved book How to Catch a Snowman by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton. This comprehensive book companion is perfect for classroom settings or homeschooling, providing an exciting way to bring winter-themed learning into your classroom! ❄️ What's Inside:Comprehension Skill Activities:Making Predictions: Encourage students to think ahead
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.3
, RL.1.7
+6
How to Catch a Turkey Thanksgiving STEM and Reading Comprehension
Engage students with STEM catapult challenge for How to Catch a Turkey. In this thorough Thanksgiving STEM resource students can create unique turkey art, work on fall themed guided reading comprehension skills and extensions, and complete a guided STEM challenge. This book companion unit for How to Catch a Turkey by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for fall in the classroom or an exciting Thanksgiving or Fall themed l
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+8
How to Build a Haunted House STEM | Halloween Craft Activities | STEAM Challenge
Build a haunted house with an engaging Haunted House STEM challenge, create unique haunted house writing with art, learn about 3D shapes, or teach a fun, fall themed guided reading unit featuring multiple comprehension skills extensions and worksheets. This book companion unit for How to Build a Haunted House by Frank Tupta is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for fall in the classroom or an exciting Halloween themed learning experience. Included in
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
Chinese New Year Craft STEM and Reading Activities How to Catch a Dragon
Looking for unique and exciting way to introduce the Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year? Help catch the dragon with an engaging STEM pulley system challenge, create unique dragon art, or teach a fun Chinese New Year-themed guided reading unit. This resource reviews multiple comprehension skills through focused worksheets and provides multiple writing extensions with graphic organizers. This book companion unit for How to Catch a Dragon by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is packed full of en
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+14
How to Catch an Elf Holiday STEM and Reading Comprehension Activities
How to Catch an Elf activities with an engaging STEM grabber challenge, elf craft, and a fun winter holiday or Christmas-themed guided reading unit featuring multiple comprehension skills and worksheets as well as writing extensions in multiple genres. This book companion unit for How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for celebrating winter holidays in the classroom or an exciting Christmas-themed lear
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+8
How To Catch Santa Claus STEM Reading Comprehension Activities Christmas
Help the Santa escape with an engaging STEM challenge, create a wheel and axel simple machine and teach a fun, winter-themed reading unit featuring multiple reading comprehension skills extensions and worksheets. This book companion unit for How to Catch Santa by Alice Walstead and Andy Elkerton is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for winter in the classroom or an exciting Christmas-themed learning experience. This is a fun twist to help Santa esc
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+11
STEM Activities Reading Comprehension Book Companion STEM Challenge Bundle
Get ready to engage your students with seasonal STEM activities, creative challenges, and reading comprehension exercises—all wrapped up in one amazing bundle! This STEM & STEAM Holiday Bundle features 11 different mentor texts that will bring the magic of each holiday and season to life in your classroom. From STEM experiments like catapults, levers, and pulley systems to guided reading activities and art extensions, this bundle is your one-stop-shop for hands-on, engaging learning all
1st - 4th
Engineering, English Language Arts, Science
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+8
Earth Day Activities Earth Day Craft Reading Writing STEM & More
Engaging Earth Day activities for the classroom including Earth Day activities for reading, writing, and STEM. Celebrate Earth Day with 5 different book companion guided reading sets, 6 leveled nonfiction closed reading passages with comprehension questions, Recycle and Repurpose STEM challenge, multiple writing prompts, graphic organizers and report templates, math, art, science resources, and more! Plus many Earth Day activities for centers, crafts, games, home connection materials, and
1st - 3rd
Earth Sciences, For All Subjects, Informational Text
CCSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.10
, RL.2.1
+5
St Patricks Day STEM | March STEM Activities DIGITAL Leprechaun Trap and Writing
Imagine, brainstorm, design and create a digital St Patricks Day STEM Leprechaun Trap with this simple to use digital STEM activity bundle in Google Slides. This exciting resource can be used for many science, engineering , free time activities, classroom parties or centers in the classroom. Go through the engineering process with STEM templates, create a leprechaun trap or leprechaun home, be inspired by problem ideas and of course manipulate and build with over 100 STEM inspired moveabl
1st - 5th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
+2
How to Catch a Leprechaun STEM Reading Craft and More
How to Catch a Leprechaun activities including a leprechuan STEM trap challenge for St. Patrick's Day learning. Book companion activities including reading comprehension, crafts, writing and more to keep your students engaged this March! All activities go with the book How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton. ☘Included in this product ☘ ☘ Reading Comprehension Making PredictionsText EvidenceCharacter, Setting, PlotRetellAuthor's PurposeSequencingText ConnectionsKey EventsPr
1st - 4th
Engineering, English Language Arts
How To Catch a Reindeer STEM & Reading Comprehension Activities
Help the Comet the reindeer escape with an engaging STEM challenge, create a Inclined Plane and Ramp System (Slide) and teach a fun, winter-themed reading unit featuring multiple reading comprehension skills extensions and worksheets. This book companion unit for How to Catch a Reindeer is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for winter in the classroom or an exciting Christmas-themed learning experience. How to Catch a Reindeer activities included:Com
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+11
Snow Day Activities Pack
Snow Days have you scrambling for learning opportunities? This Snow Day Activity Pack is full of fun learning for kids and families! Attach in an email or newsletter to parents or post to your classroom blog for an easy download. Do your own children need something to help keep everyone in routine, then this is for you! This Pack Includes:❄️ STEM Snow Towers activities and reflection ❄️ Reading challenge ❄️Reading comprehension: Book review and Favorite part activities ❄️Snowfall graphing ❄️Te
1st - 3rd
Creative Writing, For All Subjects
How To Catch a Gingerbread Man STEM and Reading Comprehension
Help the gingerbread man escape with an engaging STEM challenge, create a safe indoor slingshot, explore kinetic and potential energy, and teach a fun, winter-themed guided reading unit featuring multiple comprehension skills extensions and worksheets. This book companion unit for How to Catch a Gingerbread Man by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for winter in the classroom or an exciting gingerbread-themed learning exp
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+11
How to Catch a Groundhog Day Activities STEM Reading Comprehension Writing Craft
Bring Groundhog Day to Life with an Engaging STEM Pulley System Challenge!This fun, hands-on STEM activity lets students explore the world of pulleys while celebrating Groundhog Day! Students will design and build their own Groundhog Elevator, learning about pulley systems, energy transfer, and the mechanics of lifting objects. With engaging challenges, this unit helps students understand the science behind simple machines while applying their creativity to a real-world problem. What’s Inside T
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+11
How to Catch a Yeti Activities STEM STEAM Reading Comprehension and Writing
Bring the excitement of winter and the mystery of mythical creatures into your classroom with this How to Catch a Yeti book companion unit! This engaging unit is perfect for winter-themed activities, STEM challenges, and reading comprehension practice. Packed with hands-on activities, this resource will help your students explore lever simple machines, build problem-solving skills, and enhance their creativity through fun writing exercises. What’s Inside This Fun Winter-Themed Unit:Compreh
1st - 3rd
Engineering, English Language Arts
CCSS, NGSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+11
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About the store
Experience
With over 17 years of teaching experience in 1st and 2nd grades, I am dedicated to promoting equity, inclusion, and personalized learning. As an elementary equity and inclusion coach, I collaborated with educators to ensure equitable access to educational opportunities. I have served as the 504 Monitor, overseeing support plans for K-5 students, and facilitated as a Culturally Responsive Teacher trainer, empowering staff with strategies to create inclusive environments and materials. Additionally, I am passionate about creativity and drawing. I love sharing my clipart designs in hopes that they can help enhance learning materials and classroom aesthetics. I am passionate about including my experiences into everything I create and share!
Teaching style
I like to have fun while learning with my students. Engagement is my goal to keep kids learning and hard behaviors at a minimum. There is a fun and interesting way to learn almost everything, so differentiation is key. The most important part of my day is to make sure all my kids feel unique, supported and important. I try my best to make connections with students daily, whether it is academically or in support of their social skill development. I also believe strongly in the value of home to school communication and I try to offer extensions to home in many of my resources.
Awards & shining teacher moments
* Educator of the year 2017
* Distinguished Teacher
My own education history
* Masters degree in Early Childhood Education
* K-5 Literacy Endorsement
* National Board Certified EMC Literacy
Additional biographical information
When I develop curriculum my focus is differentiation and engagement. I want to help teachers meet the needs of our diverse learners. Helping teachers meet the standards in unique and realistic ways is a priority of mine.
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