I am in my 12th year of teaching 4th grade. Currently I am piloting an integrated language arts/social studies class. I have also taught 9 years of kindergarten, 2 years of 5th grade, and 1 year of middle school special education.
Do you know which students in your class are more auditory, visual, or kinesthetic learners? Use this Google Form to easily and quickly discover the student learning style preferences of your students when they come back to school! This self checking google form will collect student data to best indicate how students learn best in the classroom-both individually and as a class! Use this data to help design lessons and classroom activities that reach students of all learning strengths! √ Save mo
NATIVE AMERICAN PROJECT BASED LEARNING CHOICE BOARD! Students will differentiate on their own and demonstrate active learning when they utilize this engaging choice board to compliment any Native American unit of study! Each project is given a point value and students will select activities that will help them reach this goal while at the same time showcasing their knowledge on this social studies topic in a variety of creative ways. All 9 activities are high interest, multi-modality projects
COLONIAL AMERICAN PROJECT BASED LEARNING CHOICE BOARD! Students will differentiate on their own and demonstrate active learning when they utilize this engaging choice board to compliment any Colonial America or 13 Colonies unit of study! Each project is given a point value and students will select activities that will help them reach this goal while at the same time showcasing their knowledge on this social studies topic in a variety of creative ways. All 9 activities are high interest, multi-
Do your elementary students struggle with state testing overwhelm? Are they tuning out when it comes to boring test prep packets? Grab this bundle of refreshing but effective activities that will keep your students motivated and involved all while reviewing critical skills, essay writing skills & test taking strategies for those upcoming state assessments! Included in this bundle of hands-on activities is the following: FLIPBOOK: Students will create a flipbook that will help review key test tak
Need a quick, comprehensive, and ready to implement STATE Identification unit for your 4th or 5th grade students? Look no further! I’ve chunked the 50 states into 4 separate regions (NE, SE, MW, and SW/W) with a spiral approach to both introduce and review a manageable set of states each week. I’ve created several study sheets and practice resources for the focus region each week. Each section has a SELF GRADED Google Form to assess growth each week. In addition, in order to provide rigor and
Use this Google Form to efficiently gather information about your individual students in a digital manner! This google form will collect student responses to give you an instant inside look into your students’ interests, goals, and learning styles! A perfect activity to introduce your students to using Google Forms while gathering important data to use all year! √ Save money when purchasing this in my Back to School Google Form Bundle!*Social Emotional Learning *Learning Styles *Grow
Engage 4th grade Ohio students in this hands-on, project based learning activity that will strengthen their knowledge of Ohio’s natural resources and map skills. Based on the popular book, How to Make a Cherry Pie and see the USA, students will be presented with the challenge of making blueberry pancakes using only ingredients found in the Buckeye state! They will utilize higher level thinking skills as they identify the natural resources needed, the location in the state where they are found in
Students can choose from NINE creative, project based learning activities to both demonstrate and differentiate their level of understanding regarding the Revolutionary War! All 9 activities are high interest, multi-modality projects that include step by step directions and/or the necessary materials to complete. Students will research, write poetry, reflect, design, paint, brainstorm, construct, draw, and so much more! Each project is given a point value and students will select activities th
Use BOOM cards for a super engaging, fun way to review the States of Matter! Terms covered include: solid, liquid, gas, evaporation, matter, volume, mass, and many more! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to identify important scientific concepts involving the states of matter! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! They can be easily be uploa
Use BOOM cards for a super engaging, fun way to review the processes of erosion, weathering, and deposition! Terms covered include: physical weathering, chemical weathering, deposition, erosion, sediment, expansion, delta, and many more! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to identify important scientific concepts involving erosion, weathering, and deposition! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that pro
Do you need a fun and innovative way to teach effective sentence development that includes forming complete sentences, correcting run on sentences, identifying sentence fragments, dividing sentences into their subject and predicate, using correct punctuation, and challenging students to create complex sentences? Give your grammar instruction a new twist with this engaging, differentiated, and effective method for teaching grammar! The grammar workshop grid allows students to INDEPENDENTLY work
Use BOOM cards for a super engaging, fun way to review the types of energy! Terms covered include: refraction, reflection, absorption, vibration, medium, pitch, and many more! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to identify important concepts with light and sound energy! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! They can be easily be uploaded and
Learn all about your students' preferred learning styles, interests, mindset growth, and SEL development with this set of self checking, Back to School Google Forms! These activities can easily be given throughout the first few days of schools to not only help students familiarize themselves with their devices and new programs but also provide quick and easy feedback for you! 4 different Google forms will automatically collect data that can be used for immediate goal setting and lesson planning
Deepen and expand your 4th and 5th grade students’ understanding of key map skills using this independent choice board! Students will differentiate on their own through this set of nine different activities that review skills such as map scale, relative direction, compass rose directions, continents & oceans, map legends, coordinates, and so much more! Each project is given a point value and students will select activities that will help them reach an individual goal they set for themselves
Increase student engagement during the holiday season with this Christmas Carol Escape Room Challenge! Student teams will exercise their knowledge of popular Christmas carols to unlock secret codes in 5 levels of highly engaging and collaborative tasks! After learning that the annual Christmas Music Festival will be cancelled unless they can rescue the songs in time, student teams will eagerly unscramble song titles, solve riddles, identify “picture” clues, fill in missing lyrics, and correctly
Engaging Back to School/About Me technology-based project using Google Drive! (Editable!) Have students make their class introductions the first week of school unique and engaging by creating a virtual scrapbook of themselves to share! Bright, colorful slides provide the perfect background for students to upload images and insert text to create their own project on the computer. Google Drive makes it so easy to share this file with others! This would be a perfect activity to have ready to sh
I created this set of 8 ½ X 11 inch posters to display for my students. I wanted them to have a visual reference for eliminating those “tired” words in their creative writing. Full of “sparkle” words such as boisterous, appalling, and colossal…..this set of cute tee-rific words is sure to help your students, too! Hang them on a piece of clothesline to make your own “laundry line”. Very cute! Included: *10 color posters featuring a common word and 6 richer choices on brightly colored tee-shi
Do your students need practice with identifying and creating abbreviations for language arts? Use this interactive set of BOOM cards to help reinforce the common abbreviations for common places, objects, names, etc.! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to demonstrate how much they know when it comes to this important language arts skill! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback a
Do your students need practice with identifying and creating contractions for language arts? Use this interactive set of BOOM cards to help reinforce the types of common contractions! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to demonstrate how much they know when it comes to this important language arts skill! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! Th
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Experience
I am in my 12th year of teaching 4th grade. Currently I am piloting an integrated language arts/social studies class. I have also taught 9 years of kindergarten, 2 years of 5th grade, and 1 year of middle school special education.
Teaching style
I love to teach using themes! I am constantly trying to connect my language arts skills with topics relevant to the other subject areas. I feel students learn so much more if they can see how events are related to each other. I find myself creating a lot of my own materials because commercial products for the intermediate grades are still fairly divided among subjects. That's okay, though. I'm finding that my custom-made activities are the ones the students are most successful with!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Accomplished rating in OTES system;
Highly Effective value added teacher;
Unit leader position in 2 different grade levels;
Cooperative teacher to several student teachers
Recipient of Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Education Award 2015
Accepted to write curriculum for Ohio as America Project
Selected to present at OAASFEP State Conference (Connecting Ohio's New Learning Standards
My own education history
Bachelor of Arts in Education: Muskingum College;
Masters of Arts in Teaching & Curriculum: Miami University
Additional biographical information
I enjoy helping my husband run outdoor science educational trips to the western and southern states during the summer months.
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