Help from Heather
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DUSON, Louisiana, United States
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I am in my 12th year of teaching though my background is somewhat unique. I taught 1st grade for 2 years at Church Point Elementary and then kindergarten for 3 years at Carencro Heights Elementary. At that time I was fortunate enough to be able to choose to stay at home with my daughter. I then worked part-time doing medical transcription and raising my two daughters for 10 years. I taught kindergarten for 4 years and served as a district ELA Coach, helping other ELA teachers across the district, for 2 years. I chose to return to the classroom for the 19-20 school year at Duson Elementary and I teach 2nd grade ELA. The 20-21 school year will be my 8th year back in education in Louisiana.
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Number Bingo 0-10
Have fun while giving your students practice recognizing numerals! There are 14 different BINGO cards and one caller card. Give students beans, math cubes, math counters, etc. to mark their cards with as well as the caller card to check for winners. Print multiple copies and have more than one winner - IF they are paying attention!
PreK - 1st
Math, Numbers, Other (Math)
CKLA 1st Grade Spelling Pocket Chart Cards
CKLA 1st Grade spelling cards from all Skills units to display in a pocket chart. File can also be used to copy flashcards for students to review at home.
1st
Spelling
CCSS
L.1.2d
CKLA 2nd Edition Spelling Word Pocket Chart Cards
Pocket chart cards to display spelling words from all units in CKLA 2nd Grade Skills Units. This PDF document can also be used to print flashcards for students to cut apart and take home.
2nd
Spelling
CCSS
L.2.2d
2nd Grade-CKLA 2nd Edition Skills Strand Companion
This product includes flip charts (made with Activinspire), Tricky Words and Spelling Words Cards for pocket chart display, teacher-made comprehension assessments that correlate with the CKLA Decodable Readers, as well as 3 guiding documents for each unit (overview of assessments, an overview of each lesson slide (I give this to my SPED teacher at the beginning of each week with the lessons I will be teaching.), as well as a listing of supplies needed for each lesson). All of these documents fo
2nd
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CKLA Skills 2nd Edition 2nd Grade Skills Unit 5 Companion
This product includes a flip chart (made with Activinspire) for each Skills Unit 5 lesson. Also included in this product are Tricky Words and Spelling Words Cards within Unit 5 for display, sized for a pocket chart. There are comprehension assessments I created, one of which is a cold read assessment. The assessments are intended to follow the CKLA activities with the corresponding decodable stories. The cold read assessment is intended to replace the CKLA cold read comprehension assessment and
2nd
English Language Arts, Reading, Writing
CKLA, 2nd Edition, 2nd Grade, Skills Unit 4 Companion
This product includes a flip chart (made with Activinspire) for each Skills Unit 4 lesson. Also included in this product are Tricky Words and Spelling Words Cards within Unit 4 for display, sized for a pocket chart. There are comprehension assessments I created, one of which is a cold read assessment. The assessments are intended to follow the CKLA activities with the corresponding decodable stories. The cold read assessment is intended to replace the CKLA cold read comprehension assessment and
2nd
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading
CKLA Skills 2nd Edition 2nd Grade Skills Unit 3 Companion
This product includes a flip chart (made with Activinspire) for each Skills Unit 3 lesson. Also included in this product are Tricky Words and Spelling Words Cards within Unit 3 for display, sized for a pocket chart. There are comprehension assessments I created, one of which is a cold read assessment. The assessments are intended to follow the CKLA activities with the corresponding decodable stories but is intended to replace the CKLA cold read comprehension assessment and is more aligned to LEA
2nd
English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading
CKLA Skills 2nd Edition 2nd Grade Skills Unit 2 Companion
This product includes a flip chart (made with Activinspire) for each Skills Unit 2 lesson. Also included in this product are Tricky Words and Spelling Words Cards within Unit 2 for display, sized for a pocket chart. There are comprehension assessments I created, one of which is a cold read assessment. The assessments are intended to follow the CKLA activities with the corresponding decodable stories. The cold read assessment is intended to replace the CKLA cold read comprehension assessment
2nd
English Language Arts, Grammar, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
CKLA SKills 2nd Edition 2nd Grade - Skills Unit 1 Companion
This product includes a flipchart (made with Activinspire) for each Skills Unit 1 lesson, except for Lessons 6 - 10 as those are beginning of the year assessment lessons. Also included in this product are Tricky Words and Spelling Words Cards within Unit 1 for display, sized for a pocket chart. There are also 4 different comprehension assessments I created, one of which is a cold read assessment. The assessments are intended to follow the CKLA activities with the corresponding decodable stori
2nd
English Language Arts, Grammar, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
CCSS
RF.2.3
, RF.2.3a
, RF.2.3b
 +5
AR Incentive Charts
AR incentive charts can be used with small stickers to encourage students to read. There are 4 designs, each designated with a 9 weeks period as that is how our system works; however, it is EDITABLE so you can change that part if you prefer! Enjoy!
Not Specific
Informational Text, Literature, Reading
Watercolor Calendar (Blue and Green)
This calendar set is for classrooms who aren't able to do "calendar time" but simply need a calendar set up in the classroom. All pieces are made up of calming blue and green watercolors. This purchase includes 2 sets each of month headers, day headers, day abbreviation headers, calendar numbers, and years up to 2023. It was made based off of measurements of a calendar pocketchart but could easily be used with whatever calendar set up you have. Print, laminate, cut and you are ready to go!
Not Specific
For All Subjects
Segmenting Cards
These cards can be used during literacy centers or even at the Guided Reading table to warm up. These cards give students practice isolating each sound in a word. Great to assist with practice isolating sounds to improve writing.
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Black and Bright Decor
Once you have extracted the files from the zip file you will have two separate files. One has calendar numbers, 1-31, to be used for the classroom calendar or other number needs in the classroom such as keeping track of classroom jobs. The other file has the alphabet headers which can be used for a Word Wall or any other use the teacher may need. Enjoy!
Not Specific
For All Subjects
Word Family Strips
These are a great independent literacy center or activity to be used at the guided reading table. Students practice changing the first sound of a word to make new words and then record those new words on a provided recording sheet. Directions included on how to customize your own recording sheet. In order to extend this activity, the teacher could also have students recreate the words they made on the strips with magnets as well as have students choose one word from each word family strip and
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, Other (ELA), Phonics & Phonological Awareness
CCSS
RF.K.2a
, RF.K.2e
, RF.K.3d
Reading Strategies Progress Report
A great communication tool to share specific information with parents on what their child is doing well and what specifically needs practice to improve their reading abilities! This can be sent home with report cards or any time when you feel communication is needed with parents about reading!
K - 1st
Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies
Handwriting Guidance Poster
Very common saying about handwriting that really sticks with students! Can be sent to a print shop to enlarge to poster-size.
PreK - 2nd
For All Subjects, Other (ELA), Writing
Unit 6 Kindergarten Journeys Flip Charts
These ActivInspire flip charts coordinate with Kindergarten Journeys Unit 6, Lessons 26 - 30. Stop fumbling around looking for all of those cards and charts - they are all in one place on the flip chart, saving you precious instructional time. Have a formal observation coming up? What better way to impress than to use an interactive flip chart?! Better yet, it is editable so you can add/delete anything you want as it fits the needs of your students. Great guide to write out lesson plans for you
Kindergarten
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
Unit 5 Kindergarten Journeys Flip Charts
These ActivInspire flip charts coordinate with Kindergarten Journeys Unit 5, Lessons 21 - 25. Stop fumbling around looking for all of those cards and charts - they are all in one place on the flip chart, saving you precious instructional time. Have a formal observation coming up? What better way to impress than to use an interactive flip chart?! Better yet, it is editable so you can add/delete anything you want as it fits the needs of your students. Great guide to write out lesson plans for you
Kindergarten
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
Unit 3 Kindergarten Journeys Flip Charts
These ActivInspire flip charts coordinate with Kindergarten Journeys Unit 3, Lessons 11 - 15. Stop fumbling around looking for all of those cards and charts - they are all in one place on the flip chart, saving you precious instructional time. Have a formal observation coming up? What better way to impress than to use an interactive flip chart?! Better yet, it is editable so you can add/delete anything you want as it fits the needs of your students. Great guide to write out lesson plans for you
Kindergarten
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
Unit 2 Kindergarten Journeys Flip Charts
These ActivInspire flip charts coordinate with Kindergarten Journeys Unit 2, Lessons 6 - 10. Stop fumbling around looking for all of those cards and charts - they are all in one place on the flip chart, saving you precious instructional time. Have a formal observation coming up? What better way to impress than to use an interactive flip chart?! Better yet, it is editable so you can add/delete anything you want as it fits the needs of your students. Great guide to write out lesson plans for your
Kindergarten
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
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About the store
Experience
I am in my 12th year of teaching though my background is somewhat unique. I taught 1st grade for 2 years at Church Point Elementary and then kindergarten for 3 years at Carencro Heights Elementary. At that time I was fortunate enough to be able to choose to stay at home with my daughter. I then worked part-time doing medical transcription and raising my two daughters for 10 years. I taught kindergarten for 4 years and served as a district ELA Coach, helping other ELA teachers across the district, for 2 years. I chose to return to the classroom for the 19-20 school year at Duson Elementary and I teach 2nd grade ELA. The 20-21 school year will be my 8th year back in education in Louisiana.
Teaching style
My teaching style varies often and typically depends on each group of students I have. Overall I try to balance hands-on activities with activity sheet type of work as the demand for students to be able to complete seat work independently continues to grow. I also try to employ many kinesthetic learning opportunities. We are blessed to be a 1:1 school and each student has a Chromebook to work on so I am working to create new products to use with this technology as well.
Awards & shining teacher moments
While on hiatus from teaching I was honored as an APEL Volunteer of the Year award through the Louisiana State Department of Education.
My own education history
I graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then known as University of Southern Louisiana) in 1999 with a Bachelor's of Arts in Education and am certified to teach grades K to 4. Prior to returning to the classroom I completed 2 additional educational courses through University of Phoenix to update my teacher certification after being out of the classroom for 10 years.
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