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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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I am a teacher of 15 years. I have owned a childcare center in Central New Jersey for five of those years. Currently I am spending time constructing curriculum for preschool.
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Preview of Plants Theme for Kindergarten and First Grade

Plants Theme for Kindergarten and First Grade

This Plants theme was designed primarily for students in Kindergarten and First grade Concepts in Science fill most of this resource. Concepts covered include: Living Things The life cycle of sunflowers Parts of a flower- poster and a labeling worksheet “Plants are Useful” is in the format of a seven pages staggered book. Observing the growth of a bean seed Labeling the bean seed “Seeds Have Needs” Teacher and students copies of a booklet. Reading seed packets Sequencing the growth of a carrot
Preview of Fire Safety Rules with Math and Literacy

Fire Safety Rules with Math and Literacy

This packet includes 58 pages of activities which include safety pages, math and literacy activities with two crafts. Listed below please find all that is included: Award cards in both color and black and white Homework-drawing a floor plan and a check list for safety at home Fill in the blanks and drawing to review fire safety rules Poster for fire drill procedure Search for fire hazards coloring sheet Fire safety review cards Syllable sort Rhyming word families activity for "ot" and "ax" mobi
Preview of Native Americans Regions

Native Americans Regions

The activities in this selection are broken down by each region. Activities include a graphic organizer, fact card in both color and blackline which gives information on each region followed by a quiz, word find puzzles, word and sentence scramble, tally and graph, and an interactive spinner which needs to be put together using paper fasteners. Also, in this packet you will find a map showing the Native American region locations The KWL chart to use before beginning and at the end of the unit. A
Preview of An Introduction to Washington D.C.

An Introduction to Washington D.C.

This product starts off with an ebook to read to the children. It is followed by a comprehension printable. There are flashcards explaining the sites which are located in Washington D,C,, a mini poster for the children to color, a read the room which has 8 cards although only two are shown in the preview. There are two different printables to be completed in this activity for the different levels of the children. The last activity is a spin and graph.
Preview of the Little Red Hen Thematic Unit Activities

the Little Red Hen Thematic Unit Activities

This unit includes puppets and story maps in color and black line to use for retelling the story of the Little Red Hen. An emergent is included which contains teacher and student copies for the little Red Hen-this could easily be used as an introduction to Readers Theater since the story is set up with speech bubbles The children could use a puppet to help recognize their own part There is an emergent reader entitled “I Can Help” A teacher read aloud for the story of “Bread from Farm to T
Preview of Kindergarten Pirate Math

Kindergarten Pirate Math

This is a set of Math activities for a Pirate theme for Kindergarten Topics covered are: Numerical order Addition Problem solving Graphing Place Value There is also a Pirates Roll and Cover partner game. this game which is also in blackline.
Preview of Snowy Days Printables for Literacy and Math

Snowy Days Printables for Literacy and Math

This selection is a thematic Snow collection of printables forLiteracy and Math. The Literacy printables include the following: Graphic Organizers Snowy Day Bingo-the children make their own game board using the templates provided-the pictures can also be used in categorization activities, an emergent reader entitled “Snowman, Snowman What do you See?” Children draw the picture for each page Label the snowman Adjectives Snow words and activities Reading to get the main idea Sequence bui
Preview of Fun at the Circus Literacy and Math Activities

Fun at the Circus Literacy and Math Activities

In this theme unit you will find activities for Literacy -16 printables and answer key one Guided Reading Story, one Interactive story, and a center activity board game covering all the kindergarten sight words with a follow up sheet to write the word cards the children obtained while playing the game, and an inference matching set of cards with an inference mini poster For math -16 printables, two class graphs entitled "Do You Like Cotton Candy?" and "Have You Ever Been to the Circus?" Center a
Preview of Introduction to fractions

Introduction to fractions

In this set you will find fractions defined and compared. Tools to help the children learn about fractions are the number lines and fraction strips. They help the children describe fractions as parts of other fractions. In this unit you will also find problem solving activities which are enjoyable by the children. There are two matching games and an “Assemble Your Own Pizza” game which is sure to delight the children as they work in your math center.
Preview of First Grade Common Core Halloween Worksheets

First Grade Common Core Halloween Worksheets

This selection contains worksheets to meet many of the Common Core standards for first grade. It begins with a description of Halloween, its origin and what it has become today."The History of Halloween" includes a reading selection,comprehension sheet,a graphic organizer, and a page to rewrite using additional sources. An original poetry page entitled "Halloween Night" includes fill in the blanks causing the children to go back and reread the selection, labeling picture, and a writing page to c
Preview of Pumpkin Addition Write the Room

Pumpkin Addition Write the Room

This is an addition activity which can be used as a Math center with a pumpkin theme. This activity is set up to allow the children to move around the room as they review addition facts. An additional ten frame addition activity has been included enabling two activities to be completed during a class lesson. The ten frame activity may be used as a homework activity. This activity may be helpful to work with first grade at the beginning of the school year.
Preview of Election Day

Election Day

I updated this product for the year 2020. It includes a graph for which candidate the children believe will be our next president. After reading and discussing a short story on Election Day children may enjoy playing a game at your Math center. Literacy and math activities are also included. Story summaries and word scramble along with an a-b-c order and fill in the blanks follow a story selection which I had written about voting at the zoo.
Preview of Frog Count Write the Room

Frog Count Write the Room

In this activity children children actively move around the room counting and witing numbers to match frogs on cards
Preview of Valentine So Sweet Centers

Valentine So Sweet Centers

This set of Valentine Centers was made with the intention of use in a Kindergarten classroom. There are a total of 18 centers for math and Literacy. The centers include 6 Literacy and 12 Math. Most are Common Core aligned. Inside the preview you will have one of the complete centers for "Valentine Beginning Sounds". The remaining centers are shown on the student direction pages. These pages show a sample of a center with the response sheet shown. Each center has a student response sheet. These
Preview of Gingerbread Math and Literacy activities

Gingerbread Math and Literacy activities

This Gingerbread Unit was completely redone for the year 2020. Newer fonts and clip art have been used. Activities for phonemics , writing and reading fluency are some of the many activities you will find in this selection. Most of the pages are black lines for ease of use during this busy holiday season Clip art by DJInkers along with many great artists have been used. Should you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. There are 59 pages total but 55 are for classroom use.
Preview of Pumpkins Thematic Unit

Pumpkins Thematic Unit

Inside this product you will find activities for Science, Math and Literacy. Common Core standards are addressed. You will see each standard in the Table of Contents but not on the pages. The product includes: K-W-L chart Graphic organizer- Pumpkins-Can-have-are Pumpkins poster Pumpkins life cycle posters and activities Pumpkin life cycle cards Word Wall Cards and activities Vocabulary printables labelling Directed drawing A Pumpkin Grows booklet What Pumpkins Need intended for interactive
Preview of Easter Activities

Easter Activities

This resource should prove helpful at the early childhood level Preschool through first for the two weeks prior to Easter. It does not have any Religious material. Should you be looking for Religious material please see my Religion Curriculum "Come Along with Us to Jesus" check my preview there to see if this would be helpful for you. Many Interactive notebook pages are included; however, it is not necessary to use the notebooks to complete those activities. The following activities are include
Preview of First grade Pirates Math and Literacy

First grade Pirates Math and Literacy

“Pirates Math and Literacy for First grade contains many activities to help meet most of the first-grade common core standards. The preview shows all that is included in the table of contents as well as many of the activities. If you should have any questions, please contact me through Teachers Pay Teachers. I will get back to you ASAP. Many of these pages may be helpful as a summer packet for the children to review standards during their long vacation months. There are 142 pages. This includes
Preview of Scarecrow Math and Literacy Printables

Scarecrow Math and Literacy Printables

This selection contains 51 worksheets and 2 emergent readers. One of the emergent readers is entitled “Where is the Scarecrow? “used for standard K.L.1e. The second reader is entitled “See My Scarecrow” introducing verbs and color sight words. “See the shoes. Color them brown by shoes –clomp clomp Following these readers is a set of sight words for the words: see, the, brown, blue, red, green, white, orange, them, it, in, on, where, over, by, and here. Following the sight words is a word searc
Preview of Starting school

Starting school

"Starting School" is a resource for preschool and kindergarten This may be a good resource for substitute teachers, homework and independent work. It may also be useful in beginning of the year assessments. Many beginning of the year high frequency words are included within the activities Color by Sight Words-a, and ,the, go, see, it Fluency Reading sight words using dice-at, an ,the, to, go, it Scramble Sight word-see Find the Hidden Word-had, was, her Spin and Color sight words-is, me, I ,l
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I am a teacher of 15 years. I have owned a childcare center in Central New Jersey for five of those years. Currently I am spending time constructing curriculum for preschool.

Teaching style

My favorite form of teaching is balanced literacy.

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My own education history

I am a graduate with a BA in Elementary Education from Brooklyn College.

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I am a mother of a 36-year-old who is currently teaching preschool. She has recently had her first child. He is a beautiful little boy. I appreciate being his grandmother and watching his rapid development Logo and design done by A Little Peace of Africa (TpT seller)