Welcome to my store! I've taught middle school ELA and elementary school for nineteen years. I love to create activities that engage students in high-level rigorous thinking. I currently teach enrichment and Gifted and Talented classes.
Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking camping-themed digital escape room. Great to use in Summer School or Camp too! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and discover who stole the s'mores! Your students will practice using logical reasoning. They will persevere to solve problems. This puzzle works great for Early Fi
Capture the excitement of the Christmas Holiday Season in your classroom with this challenging critical-thinking elf mystery escape room. The fun is no-prep and digital! Students will:⭐️solve analogies ⭐️find antonyms ⭐️name the literary device (help sheet included) ⭐️solve a word ladder ⭐️decipher a code The Mystery: Warren the wrapping elf has been wrapped up in a Christmas prank! Who is the prankster? Find out as you solve engaging word clues. Your students will practice using logical reason
Engage your students on the last days of school with these fun activities. Capture the excitement of summer with these no-prep critical thinking summer themed digital escape rooms. Great to use in Summer School or Camp too! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and solve a mystery in each escape room. Your students will practice using logical reasoning. They will persevere to solve problems. Your students will continue
Engage your students this Fall with this Digital Halloween Escape Game. No-prep critical thinking activities are great for parties, early finisher activities, gifted and talented lessons, or as a sub plan! Analogies, logic puzzles, and ciphers will keep kids thinking, foster collaboration, and teach logical reasoning and perseverance! Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. Th
Capture the excitement of Valentine's Day in your classroom with this fun challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. This is a no-prep digital mystery game that uses Google Slides. You can use this game as a class party activity or for a fun learning activity anytime in February! *Students need Google Accounts to access the slides in "edit" mode to drag and drop elements and solve each clue. Students will solve analogies, and complex word problems, complete a logic puzzle, and decipher
Capture the Back-to-School excitement with this fun game! Play this game anytime, but especially appropriate for Halloween! Build vocabulary & Language skills! Use this digital escape room to give students practice with analogies, expose them to new words and encourage critical thinking! Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close-reading skills and critical th
Your students can master Greek and Latin Roots! Use this digital escape room to teach students to use roots to decode unfamiliar words in a fun, engaging, and rigorous way! Make learning fun with this no-prep / digital resource! This activity is great for introducing the concept of r oots and affixes to students. Students click on the link to the activity and find themselves in an immersive digital escape "room" housed in Google Slides. Students click on objects to find clues. Each clue is
Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking lemonade-themed digital escape room. Great to use this game in Summer School or Camp too! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and discover which alien stole the lemonade from their lemonade stand! Your students will practice using logical reasoning. They will persevere to solve
Capture the excitement of Spring Time and Easter Fun in your classroom with this challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close-reading skills and critical thinking as they figure out a logic puzzle and solve a crime. Students will solve analogiescomplete a logic puzzle decipher a word ladder decode a cipher solv
Review third-grade geometry standards with this no-prep escape room digital resource. Review traits of quadrilaterals and partitioning shapes with this 11-question game. How does the escape room work?To Share: Make a copy of the Google Slide show and share it with your students. You can share via Google Classroom as "material" or directly from the link. Next, print out the answer sheet to guide students. *If you replace the word edit and everything after it with "present" and the game will auto
Are you looking for a fun game to build vocabulary & Language skills? Use this digital escape room to give students practice with analogies, expose them to new words and encourage critical thinking! Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close-reading skills and critical thinking as they figure out a logic puzzle and solve a mystery. Students will solve analogie
Help your 6th grade students understand and review subjective, objective and possessive pronoun cases with this fun escape room! This no-prep fun digital game is great for no-stress test-prep or as a supplement to your grammar unit. This game focuses on standard L.6.1.a This Google Slides Game is easy to assign with just a few clicks (instructions included). A printable answer sheet helps keep kids on track! Engaging clues make this activity fun and challenging! Hints on clues help struggling s
Capture the excitement of the Christmas Season in your classroom with this challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. Practice language and vocabulary skills as a December class lesson or even play at a class party! Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close reading skills and critical thinking as they figure out a logic puzzle and solve a mystery. Stude
Your students can master the 6th grade language standards! Use these 180 daily grammar practice bell ringers to grow their vocabulary in a fun, engaging, and rigorous way! You'll be ready with this no-prep / full-year resource! Repeated, targeted, ENGAGING review is the key! In just five minutes a day, students practice a language standard by solving a daily cipher to find the "password to class." Best of all? The password is a term that students use in a sentence. ✅ Vocabulary instruc
Are you looking for a fun way to teach synonyms and antonyms? Would you like to get your kids thinking critically about word relationships? Enjoy this fun Mystery Game! Your students will solve 39 analogies, and have fun along the way! This is a great way to build vocabulary and introduce students to the concept of analogies. In this game, students will solve analogies to uncover three clues that will lead them to the criminal who stole Baby Bear's spaghetti dinner. The game is easy to assign
Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun 4th-grade math activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking camping-themed digital escape room. Great to use in Summer School or as test prep! Students will review many common core math standards as they persevere to solve 22 math problems included in the clues. (Download the PDF preview to see the specific questions included.) EASY TO USE! To play, just save a copy of the Google Slides and as
Time for a Virtual Learning Snow Day? Need a third-grade emergency lesson plan? Want no-prep, activities to keep your students learning from home? Download these distance-learning interactive Google Slide Deck activities. This independent practice slide deck includes 6 fun learning experiences for kids that include math, reading, writing, language and more! A printable version is also included for kids who don't have digital access. These plans will also work well as emergency, no-prep sub
Looking for a fun introduction to Shakespeare? This no-prep digital escape room will challenge your students to solve clues while gaining background knowledge about Shakespeare's life, The Globe Theatre, and Elizabethan times. Quick and easy setup directions are included for this activity! Students can use any device to access this game! Simply share your Google Slides link with students. Simple instructions are included to walk you through how to provide your students with the link. With no e
When winter weather interrupts your plans, download these no-prep, distance learning digital resources and activities for third grade. These activities also work well as emergency, no-prep sub plans for Winter. These snow day lesson plans include 6 activities on one Google Slide Deck. Students easily click through the slides completing the activities. These activities are snow-themed, to make learning from home fun. DAY 1= Snow themed Day 2= Alaska-themed Day 3= Winter Sports themed These pla
Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking travel-themed digital escape room. Great to use in Summer School or Camp too! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and discover who stole the s'mores! Your students will practice using logical reasoning. They will persevere to solve problems. This puzzle works great for Early Fin
Welcome to my store! I've taught middle school ELA and elementary school for nineteen years. I love to create activities that engage students in high-level rigorous thinking. I currently teach enrichment and Gifted and Talented classes.
Teaching style
I teaching by encouraging kids to read, write, and create! I believe that because creation is the highest level of rigor, students should have the opportunity to daily engage in many real-world, authentic experiences.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I am a National Board Certified Teacher, and am certified from elementary school through high school Language Arts.
My own education history
I earned a bachelors degree in English at Furman University and a masters in elementary education from Clemson.
Additional biographical information
In addition to teaching, I enjoy writing, reading, and running. I love spending time with my husband and two children.
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