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I create resources that make teaching SIMPLE and EFFECTIVE by focusing on how young students actually learn! I’m a busy mom, and I’m in the classroom everyday, JUST LIKE YOU. I know how frustrating it can be to have to find or write all of your lessons yourself OR have to follow a big box curriculum that just doesn’t make sense to your students. The lessons I design are EASY TO USE and ENGAGING to young learners.
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5 Minute Calendar NO PREP Morning Work & Weather Workbook {Common Core Aligned}
This is a NO PREP binder with a full year of calendar and spiraling math morning work activities. The best thing about the program is that the daily activities only take 5 minutes!!! Some days are training pages for learning new skills, and other pages have 3 days of activities of spiraling math concepts on each page (a total of 193+ days of student work). Also includes my Weather Workbook file with dates inserted for the 2025-2026 school year. Just come back next summer and re-download to ge
K - 3rd
Arithmetic, Graphing, Place Value
CCSS
1.MD.B.3
, 1.MD.C.4
, 1.NBT.A.1
+5
Common Core Close Reading Interactive Binder for Winter 1st Grade
This product contains 6 original texts- 3 fiction and 3 nonfiction that follow popular winter themes:
All About Snow (NF)
A Gift for Dasia (F)
Proud Papa Penguin (F)
Who Was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? (NF)
How to Make Valentine Chocolates (NF)
A Valentine For Our Teacher (F)
Each story has 5 days of interactive activities to ensure a deep understanding of the text and full student engagement. By the end of the week, your students will be reading these complex texts fluently, understand new v
1st - 2nd
Close Reading, Informational Text, Literature
CCSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+11
Triple Scoop Sentence Writing
****NEWLY REVISED!!!***
This packet is perfect for teaching students to write organized topic sentences and paragraphs.
Includes sets for:
- Modeling (I do)
- Guided Practice (We do)
- Independent Practice (You do)
- Step-by-step instructions for implementing in your classroom
****NEWLY REVISED!!!*** If you have purchased this product previously, please re-download and enjoy the updated new look!
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1st - 3rd
Writing, Writing-Expository
CCSS
W.1.1
, W.1.2
, W.2.2
+1
Weather Workbook {Common Core Aligned} Graphing and Data Analysis
This is a NO PREP Weather Workbook for the whole school year. This Common Core resource file has dates inserted for the 2024-2025 school year. Just come back next summer and re-download to get next year's dates for free! The Weather Workbook includes the following concepts: daily weather tracking graphing daily weather data (bar graphs) graphing daily/weekly/monthly temperature data (line graphs) data analysis (most/least and comparing two data points) personal connections to the data- illustra
K - 3rd
Earth Sciences, Graphing, Measurement
CCSS
1.MD.C.4
Common Core Close Reading Interactive Binder for Fall 2nd Grade
This product contains 6 original texts- 3 fiction and 3 nonfiction that follow popular fall themes:
New School, New Friends (F)
Christopher Columbus (NF)
Raking Leaves (F)
Web Spinners (NF)
How to Bake a Pumpkin Pie (NF)
Goodnight, Sweet Pilgrim (F)
Each story has 5 days of interactive activities to ensure a deep understanding of the text and full student engagement. By the end of the week, your students will be reading these complex texts fluently, understand new vocabulary and demonstrate
1st - 3rd
Close Reading, Informational Text, Literature
CCSS
RL.2.1
, RL.2.3
, RL.2.7
+8
Common Core Close Reading Interactive Binder for Spring
This product contains 6 original texts- 3 fiction and 3 nonfiction that follow popular spring themes:
The Legend of St. Patrick (NF) - St. Patrick's Day
The Rainy Day (F) - weather
The Life of a Sunflower (NF) - plant life cycle
The Great Escape (F) - chick life cycle
How to Make Ice Cream (NF) - summer
Victory at Last! (F) - end of year
Each story has 5 days of interactive activities to ensure a deep understanding of the text and full student engagement. By the end of the week, your students
1st - 2nd
Close Reading, Informational Text, Literature
Common Core Close Reading Interactive Binder for Fall 1st grade
This product contains 6 original texts- 3 fiction and 3 nonfiction that follow popular fall themes:
The First Day of School (F)
Johnny Appleseed (NF)
The Pumpkin Patch (F)
Animals in the Fall (NF)
How to Bake Pumpkin Seeds (NF)
At Nana's House (F)
Each story has 5 days of interactive activities to ensure a deep understanding of the text and full student engagement. By the end of the week, your students will be reading these complex texts fluently, understand new vocabulary and demonstrate hi
1st - 2nd
Close Reading, Informational Text, Literature
Bulletin Board Review Cards
These cards are an excellent way to review basic skills for kindergarten and first grade students. Display them anywhere children gather or wait in line- near the classroom door, near the restroom in the hallway, etc.
Included in this product are cards for:
-alphabet review
-letter identification
-letter discrimination for b,d,p & q
-short vowel review
-numbers to 20 with number words and ten frames
-doubles facts
-color words
-Pre-Primer and Primer Dolch sight words
-letter cards for a Boggl
K - 1st
Numbers, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
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About the store
Experience
I create resources that make teaching SIMPLE and EFFECTIVE by focusing on how young students actually learn! I’m a busy mom, and I’m in the classroom everyday, JUST LIKE YOU. I know how frustrating it can be to have to find or write all of your lessons yourself OR have to follow a big box curriculum that just doesn’t make sense to your students. The lessons I design are EASY TO USE and ENGAGING to young learners.
Teaching style
I firmly believe in a natural progression from hands-on to the abstract for my young learners. My years of experience have taught me the value in taking things step-by-step; that the structured progression from modeling to guided practice to independent practice is vitally important and can't be circumvented. It is my hope that my materials reflect my beliefs about the stages of learning for young children and that they will be helpful for other teachers to implement and enhance their instruction.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Excellence in Education nominee
Red Apple Award 2015
My own education history
Bachelor's in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from the University of Texas at Austin
Master's in Curriculum and Instruction with Reading Specialization from Tarleton State University
Additional biographical information
My husband and I have 5 children and 4 golden retrievers. Life at our house is always an adventure, but we are blessed beyond measure!
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