It is back to school time! Time to pick your classroom theme for the year! This theme pack includes 50 pages of materials you will need to set up a construction and building themed classroom for the new school year! This original document has been created by Danielle Tisdale and includes: Desk Name Tags with and without lines, home to school name tags, car rider car tags, a class Transportation Form, Meet the Teacher Sign in Sheet, Event Sign in Sheet, Conference Sign in Sheet, Class Informatio
The Polar Bears unit written by Danielle Tisdale is an integrated and inquiry based approach to learning. The unit includes an overview of the skills taught throughout this weeklong unit. There are lessons for math, science, shared reading, reader's workshop, phonics, and even morning messages! Writing has been integrated along all the content areas.
This unit contains an emergent reader about a polar bear. Along with the emergent reader are worksheets to help kids build and learning sight
Need a week's worth of math centers? Dental Health Math Centers are just what you need! Included in this product are six math centers with a dental health theme. These centers include activities for adding, place value, counting, coins - pennies, dimes,subtracting, making and identifying numbers, and making patterns. Directions for prepping the centers, playing the centers, and student recording sheets are included. This original product has been created by Danielle Tisdale and includes 25 pag
Kids love cupcakes so why not measure with them? This is a measurement math center which focuses on measuring using nonstandard units of measure. Included are six student cupcake rulers, two different student response sheets, and instructions to prepare and execute this center. The first student response sheet has children measuring objects and recording how many cupcakes long they are. The second student response sheet requires the children to look for objects that are more, less, or equal to
Monthly family projects are designed to celebrate families spending time and working together. For the last four years I've sent projects home monthly. I've communicated with parents that these are not required but something fun for them to do and share. Some families are very creative while others just color together! Enjoy celebrating families spending time and working together!
This is a 15 page study of the ay word family. This product includes word cards, read it/write it/make it practice sheets, RAN board, sentence practice, an original poem using ay words, word list, and other ideas for teaching this word family successfully. This product has been created by Danielle Tisdale.
This product is a week long unit of study for the ing word family. Included in this 41 page document are two words lists. There is a building words activity with script for modeling with young children, roll it and graph it sheets, read it/write it/make it sheets for different abilities, sentence writing and reading practice and much more. Download the preview to see the table of contents. This is an original resource created by Danielle Tisdale.
Building Numeracy Math Mats are an original learning sequence created by Danielle Tisdale. Students use manipulatives to build numeracy skills from counting, one to one correspondence, comparing sets, using terms more and less, composing and decomposing numbers, building sets of five and ten, discovering combinations of five and ten, understanding place value in teen numbers, adding, and subtracting. This set of math mats contains 25 pages. Included in the set are 14 mats with directions on ho
Llama Llama Red Pajama Character and Books study unit written by Danielle Tisdale. This unit covers the four non-holiday books written by Anne Dewdney. This unit works on:
- text to text connections
-text to self connections
-beginning, middle, and end
-writing a super sentence
-nouns
-adjectives
-verbs
Students sheets are included for each focus area. There are 11 pages included in this unit.
This product is a week long unit of study for the op word family. Included in this 50 page document are three words lists. There is a building words activity with script for modeling with young children, roll it and graph it sheets, read it/write it/make it sheets for different abilities, cloze activity, sentence writing and reading practice and much more. Download the preview to see the table of contents. This is an original resource created by Danielle Tisdale.
This is a mini unit created by Danielle Tisdale for Groundhog Day. The unit includes a skill layout for the following subject areas: shared reading, morning message, phonics, reader's workshop, science, social studies, and math. All of the worksheet, directions, and forms are included. Students will learn about shadows, making -og words, identifying words that rhyme with me, begin working on subtraction, learn about the history of the holiday, organize facts from a story into a graphic organi
Long and Short A cookie sort has been created by Danielle Tisdale. This game has two methods of play for differentiated instruction. Students who are reading and blending can play with the words only card set. Students who are still developing blending skills can use the picture clues card set. Either way students will have fun with this take it to your seat activity!
UPDATE: I've added a student recording sheet to this download 1/2!
This is an original art and writing extension activity created by Danielle Tisdale. Students create a polar bear and write about what they have learned about. Included are the patterns needed to create the polar bear art project!
You've got mail has five centers in total; one for each of the vowels: a, e, i, o, u. Each of the activities is available as a separate download or all together. These are cvc word building activities with a February theme. There are word building cards and letter cards for children to make words. Included is a recording sheet for children to record their short vowel cvc words they created. This activity is 51 pages long and created by Danielle Tisdale.
The Day I Lost My First Tooth is a shared reading book. The book is about Cho an Asian student who loses her first tooth at school. The text is repetitive. This product contains 12 pages and was written by Danielle Tisdale. This is a wonderful book for interactive whiteboards and to integrate reading into your study of Dental Health!
Will the groundhog see his shadow? Let's predict and graph it is written for February 1st or 2nd! After the class makes its predictions check and gathers the data check the news to see how your data stacks up! Created by Danielle Tisdale for Groundhog's Day. Everything is provided to make a tally mark table, pictograph, and bar graph! Students also can write about what they have learned!
This product is a week long unit of study for the ap word family. Included in this 33 page document are two words lists one with cvc words and another with constant blends. There is a building words activity with script for modeling with young children, roll it and graph it sheets, read it/write it/make it sheets for different abilities, sentence writing and reading practice and much more. Download the preview to see the table of contents. This is an original resource created by Danielle Tis
This friendship skip counting practice has forms for children to practice and/or demonstrate that they can skip count by 2, 5, and 10 with a February theme. These are cut and paste activities created by Danielle Tisdale.
Long and Short O winter cookie sort has been created by Danielle Tisdale. This game has two methods of play for differentiated instruction. Students who are reading and blending can play with the words only card set. Students who are still developing blending skills can use the picture clues card set. I've included a student recording sheet for accountability. Either way students will have fun with this take it to your seat activity!
Long and Short U winter cookie sort has been created by Danielle Tisdale. This game has two methods of play for differentiated instruction. Students who are reading and blending can play with the words only card set. Students who are still developing blending skills can use the picture clues card set. I've included a student recording sheet for accountability. Either way students will have fun with this take it to your seat activity!
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Experience
I have nine years of teaching experience as a literacy coach, first grade teacher, and kindergarten teacher.
Teaching style
I like learning to be hands-on and inquiry based. I use a lot of literature in my classroom. I like innovation and change.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Recipient of over $12,000 in classroom grants.
E-chalk web page design monthly feature
Nominated for teacher of the year 2009-2010
My own education history
I hold a Master's degree in Education. I attended Cedarville University and studied Early Childhood education.
Additional biographical information
Teaching is a passion. I love new ideas and sharing my love of learning with children.
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