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Destination Core

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Miami, Florida, United States

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I have worked as a public school teacher for 8 years in Miami Florida. I taught from my core and to the best of my skills.I taught with equal vigor all children including gifted, regular ed, special ed and ELL. My bachelors is in Sociology and my Masters is in Exceptional Student Education K-12. I am certified in Elementary Edu. and Exceptional Student Education. I resigned in August of 2014 from Miami Dade Public Schools. Now I tutor privately, am a special education advocate and an educational consultant. I am in the process of developing other materials to help support teaching of the common core to diverse learners. And most importantly, a Mom of a wonderful one year old baby girl! Would you please visit my facebook pg Destination Core on facebook and like me! From fb!

Forming Connections to Text

What Tree Do I See?

Holiday Estimation Food Station

My Place Value Bus

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Basketball Themed Postive Classroom Behavioral System (grades 2-5)

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Destination Core

This behavioral system comes with a thirty day behavior chart and three interactive “I can” posters with cut outs of points earned in real time. Students who love basketball or sports in general, will love their positive behavior reinforced with slam dunk shots to the basketball hoop. You as the teacher will decide what the rewards are at the end of the week, or thirty day period. Each positive behavior earns five points. Points are recorded each day and week on individual behavior charts. It is

2nd - 5th

Character Education, Classroom Community

I AM SMART- Self Esteem Boosting Booklet

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This handy booklet teaches children to view intelligence in non traditional ways and apply this way of thinking to have they view themselves. First, they are taught the different types of intelligences and graphic examples are provided. Lastly, they complete a self survey and reflect on what kind of intelligence(s) they possess. This product would be helpful to both teachers and parents. While especially helpful in an ESE/ESOL/Resource classroom, the product is without a doubt generalizable to r

K - 5th

Character Education

Forming Connections to Text

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This packet is intended to help provide you with visuals that will assist students in developing a deeper understanding of text through making personal and deeper connections. After all, why do we read or even watch a movie? Through learning about the world and others we are able to draw similarities between our own experiences, other experiences we have read about, and furthermore life or worldly experiences. Through this process we build a higher level of awareness which in turn makes us more

2nd - 6th

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Estimation through Visualization, Practice and Varied Estimation Strategies

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Notes to Students: (teacher insight into the product) What does it mean to estimate?We do it every day! Every time you ask yourself the question “I wonder how much could fit in this jar/basket/car/trunk, etc?” or “How many people do you think this restaurant could hold?” And then you answer…you are estimating! You are making an educated guess by using your mind and what you already know to answer the question of “about how much?”. In this activity, you will practice estimating with the help of d

1st - 5th

Math, Math Test Prep, Mental Math

In The Wild Animal Themed Bingo: Mastering CVC Words

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This activity was created to help support your students’ identification and fluent pronunciation of consonant vowel consonant patterned words through the game of bingo. What kid doesn’t love animals? That’s why we decided to jazz up our bingo boards with an animal theme. The activity comes with six bingo boards containing a combination of thirty cvc words per board. Each student will receive a page of bingo chips themed to their board. These are cut out chips, we recommend that you laminate both

PreK - 2nd

English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading

CVC Word Puzzles

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Here you will find a fun and interactive game that assists with teaching and reinforcing consonant vowel consonant patterned words. We suggest that you cut out and laminate puzzle pieces before giving them to students so you can use and reuse for years to come! What kid doesn’t enjoy putting puzzle pieces together? This activity allows students to check their work by flipping the connected puzzle pieces to the back side. If the word your kiddos’ attempted to form matches the illustration on the

PreK - 1st

Phonics & Phonological Awareness

Poetry and Practice With Numbers 1 through 10

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- Students read a cute and engaging poem that introduces them to each number 1 through 10. Poems are rhyming, allowing for cross curricula instruction within your math lesson. -Students learn to count to 10, trace each digit, write each number themselves and identify visuals of each number when given several different amounts to choose from.

PreK - 1st

Math, Numbers, Poetry

Holiday Estimation Food Station

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Destination Core

This activity is designed to get students in the holiday spirit while engaging their mathematical thinking processes. Perfect for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza and New Years (and all other holidays)! Students will be shown different buffet set ups of holiday dinners and estimate how many people each spread of food could feed. We will show them what a plate per person would look like and about how much of each dish represents a serving. From there students will make an educated guess. The last pag

2nd - 5th

Informational Text, Math, Math Test Prep

What's The Main Idea?

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Hello fellow instructors. Thank you for downloading this activity. Before using “What’s the Big Idea”, make sure that you have taught the main idea concept in your classroom and within small groups. Teaching the main idea, as simple as it may seem, can prove to be a complex concept for students. That is why we like to provide an image and reference point. Most students can relate to going to the movies or watching a favorite TV show. We hope this activity brought life and fun to your common core

K - 3rd

ELA Test Prep, Reading, Reading Strategies

What Tree Do I See?

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Students will learn to match visual images with written descriptions. They will be provided with descriptions of five common U.S. trees and given five illustrations of a child around their age in their backyard with one of the five trees incorporated into the picture. It will be their task to answer the question of “What tree do I see?” They will have to refer back to the written description in order to properly identify the five most common trees found in the United States of America. This acti

1st - 5th

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Literature

Poetry and Supporting Comprehension Graphic Organizers- The Mailbox Chronicles

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This activity is packed with a punch! Your students will be exposed to poetry through an engaging fantasy story. Following the poem, they will be asked to answer comprehension questions and complete a graphic organizer that is aligned with the common core. This activity is appropriate across grade levels 2-5 depending on the reading level of the students.

2nd - 5th

English Language Arts, Poetry, Reading Strategies

8 Graphic Organizers- Use Throughout Literary Genres

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You will receive five animated/visually appealing graphic organizers that can be used and reused with your students to help support their understanding of virtually any text, fiction or nonfiction. These graphic organizers cover the following areas of reading comprehension: compare/contrast, main idea, author’s purpose, using context clues and identifying facts and opinions. As a classroom teacher I made copies of each graphic organizer and kept extras filed in folders that I used for homework a

3rd - 5th

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Understanding Narrative Text Structure

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This power point was created to assist parents, teachers, and homeschooling parents in helping children to identify the characteristics of narrative text structure. I have used animated images to help students visualize common themes and patterns that they can expect when reading a narrative text. I used the story "Gertrude The Great" as my mentor text and included the story in the power point.

3rd - 5th

Literature, Reading Strategies, Writing

My Place Value Bus

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Destination Core

Students are presented numbers up to the thousands in different forms (word,expanded,place value blocks) and they are asked to represent each number on the windows of a school bus. They will cut and paste each digit and read the number from left to right. Following teacher confirmation, students can decorate the school buses and work can be displayed. So cute and so fun!

1st - 4th

Math, Place Value

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Multi sensory whole child teaching Creative and Imaginative Learning Always Differentiated Hands On Fun Interactive Real World Student Centered :)

Awards & shining teacher moments

Masters In Exceptional Student Education

My own education history

Bachelors In Sociology and Masters In Exceptional Student Education

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Owner of Educational Solutions and Advocacy and Proud Mommy of a 1 yr old baby girl! I hope to share info and best practices that worked for me with some of the most challenging students, in turn I can help students at a broader and wider scope- while earning extra income so I can better support and enrich my life and that of my child. <a href="www.myeducationalsolutions.com"> My Website </a>