Nuts About Teaching
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Delaware, Ohio, United States
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I have been an early childhood educator for over 15 years, teaching grades PreK, Kindergarten, Second, Third, and Fourth Grades, as well as college undergrad courses. I will be teaching kindergarten for the 2017-2018school year!
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Showing Compassion -- Personal Narratives about Helping Others
This *FREE* Common-Core Aligned packet for writing a personal narrative comes loaded with mentor text suggestions, a pre-writing planning page for brainstorming, definition of personal narrative mini-poster, and two different final draft pages for writing about a time when you showed compassion to others or when others helped you.
2nd - 4th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
A Memoir, My Real Life History-- personal narrative writing
This packet for personal narrative writing is Common Core aligned for 3rd grade, and comes with the following:
--A list of appropriate Mentor Texts to demonstrate good writing
-- Definition Mini-Poster for display
--Feature List for this genre'
--Questions to guide young writers
-- Two different graphic organizers for generating ideas and brainstorming
--Multiple options of writing paper for final drafts, including color and black & white
2nd - 4th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
Interactive Reading Response Journal
This interactive Reading Response Journal is based upon the beliefs in Guiding Readers and Writers by Fountas & Pinnell. It includes three different sections-- guided reading, a "reference" section for reading lessons, and a final section for independent reading responses.
This journal has three different response pages in the final section for differentiation among your students if necessary, along with directions on how I use the journal in my on classroom.
2nd - 5th
Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies
Story Organizer Map with Story Bead
The art teacher and I collaborated to to teach lesson about Native American storytelling. Our focus was on characters, setting, and plot. The students mapped out a story with me, then created clay beads for a story string with her.
Attached is the map we created to use with the kids. Notice, there is a place within each box for students to sketch or identify the bead associated with that part of the story on the story sting.
Happy Teaching!
1st - 4th
Literature, Visual Arts, Writing
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Experience
I have been an early childhood educator for over 15 years, teaching grades PreK, Kindergarten, Second, Third, and Fourth Grades, as well as college undergrad courses. I will be teaching kindergarten for the 2017-2018school year!
Teaching style
I prefer to teach in the workshop style format-- or the "three ring circus" as some call it! Many times, I will present a whole group lesson based upon grade level standards, then send students to their work space to work on indepedent work at their own level while I teach guided groups in reading, writing, word study, and math. Typically, science and social studies are whole group activities, as we are using discovery learning and conducting investigations in those content areas.
Awards & shining teacher moments
My shining moment is every single day that I walk into my classroom, and I love being there. My students are excited to come to school and be on the learning journey with me. I am also thrilled to have my daughter at the same school where I teach. :)
I recently earned the Master Teacher designation for my school district within the state of Ohio.
My own education history
2006-Present Post Graduate Work at The Ohio State Univeristy-- literacy and educational practices focus
2005-2006 Master of Arts in Education at The Ohio State Univeristy
1998-2000 Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education at Ashland University
1997-- Bachelor of Business Administration at The Ohio State Univeristy
Additional biographical information
I am the mom to a very busy eleven-year-old girl who loves learning and teaching as much as her mom does!
Our family are die-hard fans of The Ohio State University-- we are all nuts about the Buckeyes. :)
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