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Richmond, Kentucky, United States
About the store
I LOVE my job!!! I have been teaching professionally since 1991! (Before that, I worked camps and after-school programs!) I've spent 15 years teaching PK - 3rd grade, Reading Recovery, ELL, and Math Recovery. I was an assistant principal for 5 years, but missed teaching. I currently serve as a district resource teacher, so I get to work with kids AND teachers!! I am so lucky!!
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Preview of Excuse Me! Number game 1 to 5

Excuse Me! Number game 1 to 5

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Excuse Me, Please!! is a fun way to help children internalize different formats of the numbers 1-5. These activities are based on Math Recovery, AVMR and Singapore Math strategies. Included are 4 different game boards, each of which can be played using the "finger pattern spinner". Students spin and then cover the matching spot on their game board. The great thing about this game is that it's different every time!! You can make copies of the gameboard and spinner, and several groups (or the
Preview of FREEBIE! Dice Faces 0 to 5

FREEBIE! Dice Faces 0 to 5

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COUNTING SPOTS
Download these dice faces for a wide variety of dice to use in all your Kindergarten math centers and fluency games! These dice cards fit perfectly in our pocket dice. Just choose the dice faces you want your students to practice and you have new game option each time. CCS Cluster: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Understand addition as putting together/adding to and understand subtraction as taking apart/taking from. CCS K.OA.A.5-Fluency standard to 5 AVMR structuring levels 0 and 1
Preview of FREEBIE! Spinners 0-3

FREEBIE! Spinners 0-3

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COUNTING SPOTS
Download these spinner faces for a wide variety of spinners to use in all your Kindergarten math centers and fluency games! These spinners fit perfectly in our magnetic trays. Just choose a spinner face, attach the magnet spinner and you have new game option each time. CCS Cluster: Operations & Algebraic Thinking: Understand addition as putting together/adding to and understand subtraction as taking apart/taking from. CCS K.OA.A.5-Fluency standard to 5 AVMR structuring levels 0 and 1 Conte
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Experience

I LOVE my job!!! I have been teaching professionally since 1991! (Before that, I worked camps and after-school programs!) I've spent 15 years teaching PK - 3rd grade, Reading Recovery, ELL, and Math Recovery. I was an assistant principal for 5 years, but missed teaching. I currently serve as a district resource teacher, so I get to work with kids AND teachers!! I am so lucky!!

Teaching style

I am a true constructivist teacher!! I think Vygotsky was a genius. I strive to teach students and teachers at their ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) so they push themselves to learn!!

Awards & shining teacher moments

National Board Certified Teacher (Early Childhood - ages 3 to 8 years, primary), Math Intervention teacher, Math Recovery certified, Add+Vantage MathRecovery Teacher and Champion, SNAP Teacher and Facilitator, Reading Specialist, Reading Recovery certified, LLI trained, grant writer

My own education history

BA from the University of KY in Elementary Education MA from the University of KY in Reading NBCT for Early Childhood, Ages 3 to 8

Additional biographical information

I live in Lexington, KY with my wonderful husband of over 21 years, Bob, as well as my daughter, son and our 2 dogs, Chewey & Lily.