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Growing Firsties

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Sussex, Wisconsin, United States
About the store
Current first grade classroom teacher loving structured literacy, viewing children from a strength-based perspective and carefully designing student and teacher-friendly resources for deep learning...former Reading Specialist, University Instructor and Freelance Literacy Consultant...but my heart is in the classroom. I'm also a wife and mom to two terrific, spunky, quirky and awesome kids and one amazingly cuddly dog.
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Preview of Animal Decoding Reading Strategies Posters - Science of Reading Aligned

Animal Decoding Reading Strategies Posters - Science of Reading Aligned

Your beginning readers will benefit from these Science of Reading aligned decoding reading strategies! The animals act as a scaffold for students to practice and learn decoding strategies. Great for use during whole group and small group instruction, as well as intervention or with take home reading materials. This reference set includes posters, bookmarks, an all in one poster in full page and half page format. 7 Decoding Strategies Posters and Bookmarks included:Full page posters for Eagle Eye
Preview of Details Chart and Word Bank for Writers Workshop

Details Chart and Word Bank for Writers Workshop

Make it easy for your writers to add details with this writer's workshop anchor chart. This chart is intended to help writers elaborate their pieces with details during writers workshop. It can be used with struggling writers and/or with all writers to help overcome a writers' block or while helping to increase student's writing stamina. It makes a great yearlong poster for reference in the classroom. Please Note: This chart is INCLUDED in my Personal Narrative pack. Please do not purchase this
Preview of EDITABLE Classroom Letter Labels A to Z Bright Polka Dot Chevron

EDITABLE Classroom Letter Labels A to Z Bright Polka Dot Chevron

There are so many uses for these EDITABLE classroom labels from A to Z in bright colors to match your bright classroom decor, word wall headers, classroom library tubs, and more! There are seven bright colors included: purple, turquoise, lime green, yellow, orange, pink and gray. Each color has two options: polka dot and chevron. Two size options included - 4 per page and 12 per page. Also included is a black and white option so you can print on any colored paper you'd like. #astrobrights for th
Preview of Back to School SEL Poster Decor Classroom Community - Everyone Matters Poster

Back to School SEL Poster Decor Classroom Community - Everyone Matters Poster

Working on building a kind, caring classroom community with growth mindset? This poster is a beautiful addition to your Back to School classroom decor. You and your students can refer to this printable poster throughout the day and school year. This file is a compressed, zipped file that includes a pdf that you can use to print from any printer. It also includes a folder filled with individual high resolution images that you can use to print poster size at photo developers. What a perfect compa
Preview of Owl Group Cards

Owl Group Cards

Here are 13 different colored owls with group numbers and 13 different owls with ____ (so you can select the colors you want and add your own numbers). I plan to use them to mark work locations for the groups in my class, but they're super versatile! Thanks to The Digital Bakeshop (on etsy) for the darling owls!!
Preview of Volume Level Chart Polka Dot Owl

Volume Level Chart Polka Dot Owl

Please download the preview to see the two versions! This includes seven different color combinations of volume charts using two different versions of Voice Levels. It also includes one poster per volume level. The backgrounds are polka dot, the clip art is an adorable owl. Please contact me at growingfirsties@gmail.com if you have any specific color requests and I'll see what I can do. :-)
Preview of EDITABLE Classroom Number Labels 1 to 180 Bright Polka Dot Chevron

EDITABLE Classroom Number Labels 1 to 180 Bright Polka Dot Chevron

There are so many uses for these EDITABLE classroom labels in bright colors to match your bright classroom decor! These bright labels are numbered 1 - 180 so you can use it as a classroom number line, student numbers, classroom library tub labels and more! There are seven bright colors included: purple, turquoise, lime green, yellow, orange, pink and gray. Each color has two options: polka dot and chevron. Two size options included - 4 per page and 12 per page. Also included is a black and white
Preview of EDITABLE Classroom Labels A to Z 1-180 Bright Polka Dot Chevron Decor

EDITABLE Classroom Labels A to Z 1-180 Bright Polka Dot Chevron Decor

There are so many uses for these EDITABLE classroom labels from A to Z and 1 to 180 in bright colors to match your bright classroom decor, word wall headers, classroom library tubs, student numbers, number line, and more! There are seven bright colors included: purple, turquoise, lime green, yellow, orange, pink and gray. Each color has two options: polka dot and chevron. Two size options included - 4 per page and 12 per page. Also included is a black and white option so you can print on any col
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Experience

Current first grade classroom teacher loving structured literacy, viewing children from a strength-based perspective and carefully designing student and teacher-friendly resources for deep learning...former Reading Specialist, University Instructor and Freelance Literacy Consultant...but my heart is in the classroom. I'm also a wife and mom to two terrific, spunky, quirky and awesome kids and one amazingly cuddly dog.

Teaching style

Deeply committed to learning and growing together in a predictable, structured, fun, creative environment that celebrates, honors, appreciates and includes every individual.

Awards & shining teacher moments

Working with kids is reward enough for me, yet I'm not going to lie that having a former first grader become my student teacher all those years later was pretty incredible!

My own education history

Bachelor's Degree from University of WI-Madison; Master's Degree from University of WI-Milwaukee

Additional biographical information

Most of my decades-long career has been in first grade. First graders are the best!