Title I Reading and Math Teacher
3rd grade inclusion teacher (gifted, sped, and gen ed)
Special education co-teacher
Special education small group teacher
Special Needs Preschool Teacher
This simple template makes a very fun and easy end of the year writing activity for any grade level.
We used it to focus on 1 to 2 activities that we will be doing this summer. The students then decorated the glasses and glued them to a folder. They were able to decorate the background of thee folder, however they liked. We added all of their end of the year awards to the folder after our awards ceremony.
You could just have them create a background and hand it as a fun display or just to s
This Wow! Positive Note Home product is a sample page from my Polka Dots Teacher Binder product. This note can be sent home to promote positive behavior in the classroom. Please feel free to download and print this item as much as you would like. Please do not take credit for this item and do not email/give this item to other.
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Sight Word Splat!
This game is the perfect addition to any center rotation in a first grade classroom. It will also make a great remediation or extension game for students who are below or above level in reading. This set includes all 41 Grade 1 Dolch high frequency words.
It is very simple to get this game ready to use in your classroom. Simply print, laminate, and cut the cards apart! I prefer turning this into a “file folder” game and laminating the game board to the inside of a file fold
PreK - 3rd
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Make creating your weekly homework letter a breeze with this editable homework template. It includes two different templates: one including spelling and vocabulary words and the other with only spelling.
This packet is the perfect companion to any Martin Luther King Jr. Day Activities. Use it with your reading activities, use it during center rotations, use it as an early finisher pack, etc.
This product includes 12 differentiated activities to use in your classroom.
2 Flip Books (Lower and Upper Grades)
2 Double Bubble Maps (Martin and Me & Martin and Rosa)
Character Traits Bubble Map
2 Vinn-Diagrams (Martin and Me & Martin and Rosa)
1 KWL Chart
2 Word Search Puzzles (Lower and Upper Grade
This is the perfect Reading Focus Wall set for your classroom. It includes over 35 pages of information for you to use to get your board started.
This set includes the following to display on your board:
Headers (2 per page)
Text Feature cards (these are 4 per page):
Genre Cards with descriptions (1 per page)
Elements of Non-Fictions Stores (1 per page)
To see a full list of everything that's included please download the
"preview" file and you will see every item included and the sizes of
PreK - 9th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
This set includes 25 real life photos of key body parts. These are perfect for toddler and preschool classrooms while working on learning the parts of the body. Great for SLP to use during speech sessions. Or would make great visuals for children with communication delays during the regular day in the classroom and at home. These would also make a fun file folder sorting game, task card matching box, memory game, or put them in your science and exploration stations. Words included: nose, eyes,
Mystery Words! is a fun phonics game for kindergarten or first grade students. Students will solve the mystery word by identifying the beginning sound in a picture and writing the letter in the box. After they have identified all of the beginning sounds correctly they will have their word! Students will then re-write the word and color a picture of the mystery word.
In this version of Mystery Words the words are all winter related words. This product is excellent to provide your students with l
Real animal photos bring your animal themed classroom to life! Print these in color for a beautiful additional to your classroom. This set goes along with a popular zoo themed alphabet curriculum and has all the animals included. Each page includes two letters making this easy to print, laminate, and hang. No cutting necessary (unless you just really enjoy cutting). I would love for you to follow me on instagram @ShanonBourne and tag me if you display these in your classroom!
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
What a wonderful way to help motivate positive behavior in the classroom! Using classroom coupons is a great way to keep students on-task and doing their best at all times.
This set includes 16 different coupons and a blank sheet that you can use to create your own coupons! The coupons include:
-Sit with a buddy
-Sit at the teachers desk
-Lunch with a friend
-Lunch with the teacher
-Bring a toy for show and tell
-Treasure Chest
-No homework (I only allow the student to use this for 1 assignment
Count Down To Summer activity/reward chain
Each day I randomly pick a student to come to the board and remove the bottom chain link and tell the class what their activity/reward for the day will be. I did 24 days so that all of the students would have a chance to come up and remove a link. I came up with things that would work well with my class then printed each page on a different colored of card stalk. If you think you can use this in your classroom you can download it for free.
Activities
Sight Word Splat!
This game is the perfect addition to any center rotation in a first grade classroom. It will also make a great remediation or extension game for students who are below or above level in reading. This set includes all 41 Grade 3 Dolch high frequency words.
It is very simple to get this game ready to use in your classroom. Simply print, laminate, and cut the cards apart! I prefer turning this into a “file folder” game and laminating the game board to the inside of a file fold
PreK - 3rd
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
If you're using Robots as the theme in your classroom this is the perfect behavior chart for you! This bundle includes everything you need to make your behavior chart. Simply print, laminate, and attach. The bundle also includes a parent letter, award certificates, and bookmark rewards for students with "Out Of This World Behavior."
This system is very popular and even easier to use. Students color in their robot for day to reflect the color that their clip was on at the end of the day. Each n
Acrostic Poems are one of the easiest poems to teach your students (at least in my opinion) and they one of the funniest for your students to create. This product includes 11 pre-made acrostic templates for you to use throughout the school year; poem themes for each month from August - May. Just print and let your students' imaginations run wild!
Sight Word Splat!
This game is the perfect addition to any center rotation in a first grade classroom. It will also make a great remediation or extension game for students who are below or above level in reading. This set includes all 41 Grade 2 Dolch high frequency words.
It is very simple to get this game ready to use in your classroom. Simply print, laminate, and cut the cards apart! I prefer turning this into a “file folder” game and laminating the game board to the inside of a file fold
PreK - 3rd
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
This is a cursive alphabet line with a blue and green chevron theme.
Included in this file is one cursive alphabet line. Each letter of the alphabet is represented in cursive font.
This alphabet would be the perfect addition to any classroom!
This display is perfect for classroom management! Use the display to let your students know exactly what noise level you expect them to maintain throughout the day. Use the NOISE letters to display on your board. When the class isn't following the recommend noise level remove a letter. You can decide what the consequence will be for each letter lost or for when all letter have been removed.
This will go great with a Chevron themed room or any room that needs a little color.
This football themed behavior chart is based on the clip chart behavior management system by Rick Morris. This system differs from Morris' because it allows you to promote good behavior in students by moving their clips up and not just down.
With the chart I have also included a monthly calendar for you to record each child's color on. The colors on this cart are represented as follows:
Pink- Out of This World!
Purple - Role Model!
Blue - Good Day!
Green - Ready to Learn
Yellow - Think Abo
This is a hands-on activity game to support the development of upper and lower case letter recognition in the lower elementary grade levels.
This set includes 18 pages of uppercase and lowercase letters, in two different fonts, and two sorting mats. The alphabet cards are 3.5" x 3.25" when cut out. Use these cards to have students match lowercase letters to uppercase letter, play memory games, sort lowercase letters from uppercase letters and so much more!
21 pages in all.
NOTE: "Follow" Sh
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Your little readers will love practicing their beginning sounds with the fun, hands on, engaging literacy center! Students will scoot pictures onto the correct mat by identifying the beginning sound of each picture.
Students will be able to practice identifying four beginning constant sounds: P, M, C, and S. As they identify the beginning sound of each picture they will place or scoot that picture onto the corresponding mat with the same beginning sound. The mats are labeled with the beginning
Title I Reading and Math Teacher
3rd grade inclusion teacher (gifted, sped, and gen ed)
Special education co-teacher
Special education small group teacher
Special Needs Preschool Teacher
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher Leader Academy
Special Education Team Lead
My own education history
I graduated from Kennesaw State University in May 2012 with my BS in Early Childhood Education. I am currently finishing up my Master's in Special Education with endorsements in Dyslexia and Autism.
Additional biographical information
This is my 13th year of teaching in the Metro Atlanta area. I have taught everything from Title I resource to special education small pre-k. I am currently a kindergarten/1st grade IRR special education teacher and LOVE my job!
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