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I'm an educator of primary kiddos and a recent author as well! I graduated with my bachelors in Elementary Education, specializing in Special Education and earned my M.A. in Education as well. I've taught K-2nd over the course of 25 years, and I love coming up with new and inventive ways to tackle learning, behavior, and building classroom connections! I'm a HUGE fan of adapting the learning to meet each student and enjoy creating on digital platforms! Follow me to stay updated with new products!
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Build 10 Card Game
This game engages students, whether it is played individually, in partners, or in small groups. There are so many ways to vary this “game“ up, while supporting students in building spatial awareness and practicing fact fluency within 10’s.They simply draw cards and find shared sides that total 10. The only rule is that all shared sides must equal 10. That’s it!The best thing about this is that if you have multiple groups, creating configurations of connected “tens”, they can all be given the sam
K - 3rd
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Mental Math
“Spot 10” card game for fact fluency to 10
Give students a fun way to practice fact fluency to ten by being the first one to “spot” the 2 addends equaling 10. 40 playing cards, with shuffled numbers, to make it engaging and fun to “spot”. The first one to spot the 2 addends on a card says the equation and gets that card. The player with the most cards at the end wins!
K - 3rd
Arithmetic, Mental Math, Place Value
“Say Cheese!” - Camera and film/Polaroid printout
Capture student-drawn images with a “create-your-own” camera! Students can use the film strips or Polaroid templates to draw images. Mounting actual photos onto the Polaroids can also serve as a cute display! Just have the students decorate the camera and the rest is up to you and your creativity! This makes for the cutest beginning of the year wall display, or for a special occasion! Tags: camera, film, student art, memories, beginning of the year
Not Specific
Character Education, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning
Text Connections Anchor Charts
A clear and fun visual to support students’ development of connecting texts they read to themselves, other texts, and their worlds. The text-to-world anchor chart is different from others you may have seen, as students are encouraged to not just think globally but to their immediate worlds. Tags: text to text, text to self, text to world, anchor chart, reading, metacognition
K - 5th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
Math Strategies for Adding and Subtracting Resource Anchor Charts
Here is a handy toolbox of math strategies for adding and subtracting, both with and without regrouping! I have developed this set of strategy charts over the years, and have discovered that my students LOVE using these as resources to help them grow in their strategies for solving! All of these support the kids' development towards using the algorithm in a sense-making way. Help your child/student(s) build confidence as mathematicians, by using these as tools to support their mathematical th
1st - 4th
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Place Value
Word Wall for primary grades
A very useful tool, especially for primary writers or EL learners who need the resource readily available when writing. This is an alphabetized list of key, high frequency words (and others commonly used), to support students when they are figuring out how to spell a word. This gives them confidence, so that they can learn how to access this resource without having to ask the teacher for help…thus boosting confidence! tags: word wall, writing, writing resource, primary learner, high frequency wo
K - 6th
Sight Words, Spelling, Writing
Behavior Cue Cards
Encouraging self-help/self-advocacy skills in your students? Do you have students who need support with self-regulation and encouraging communication? This is the resource for you! *Read on, or see below for the list of all the included visuals. Great for encouraging students to verbalize and use language to communicate their needs. This resource includes an entire set of behavior cue cards for students to develop skills in self-regulation and self-advocacy. This pdf includes a set of 1/2-sh
Not Specific
Character Education, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning
Add Up 3 Math Game
Who doesn’t love a good game that has a purpose for learning how to build addition fact fluency? Kids can simply roll dice or use playing cards in groups of 2-3. They roll/pick 3 numbers and write them as an equation with 3 addends. Whoever lands closest to 20, without going over wins the round! I’ve created pages that work for groups of 2 or 3. I have also created pages that work for 2 or 3 kids, to add 2 addends together. You can set the sum to your liking. Easy and no prep!
K - 3rd
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Mental Math
“Common Words” Writing Resource
Help your students build their confidence as writers! This printable resource includes commonly-spelled words, based on categories. It also includes images to make finding the words easier. The categories include words in each category that often appear in the writing of primary-level writers. Categories: placesfeelingsdaysmonthsmealspeopleactionscolorsbody partssensesclothingactivitiesanimalsTags: word wall, writing, primary, resource
K - 4th
Sight Words, Spelling, Writing
Classroom Traffic Tickets
A creative/visual way to hold students accountable by identifying areas of growth needed in reading, writing, math (or behavior during an academic block). For each content area sheet (reading, writing, or math), you will be provided with choices that parallel actual traffic tickets (ex: "speeding" = rushing through work/ "distracted" = off-task behavior exhibited). This is a simple, visual means for students and parents to see the non-preferred behavior or area of growth for reading, writing,
K - 6th
Arithmetic, Reading, Writing
Purposeful reading log and text connections
Reading logs with a title, date, and time read are a thing of the past! Reading logs should be purposeful, allowing opportunities for students to engage in comprehension and deeper thinking as readers. This digital download offers 7 different pages of reading responses for students, ranging from a simplified version to one that builds in opportunities for students to share text connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). This is also a set of printable pages, that can take the pr
1st - 4th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
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Sub Bucks: Editable
Support your substitute on those days you'll be out, and incentivize your kids to stay on-task and follow expected behavior with these editable sub bucks. The substitute can sign them as he/she passes these out to students who are demonstrating on-task/expected behavior. Upon return, you can reward your kids who earned them with your reward of choice. This editable template allows you to add to, or change up the design as you see fit. Please note that the editing platform is Canva, so you mus
Not Specific
Character Education, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning
Behavior Gauge: Editable Behavior chart
A great, visual system of behavior management for individual students! Set includes an editable link for making changes to meet your individual needs for your students. There is room for comments, as well as a space to gauge transitions between activities. The gauge is a simple tool that allows students to engage in self-reflection as it relates to his/her own behavior in particular areas throughout the day. It mirrors a gas gauge or a gauge on a device, to help determine one’s behavior. Thi
Not Specific
Character Education, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning
Synonyms List writing resource
Support your students with this tool that enhances their vocabulary as writers. Categories and visual images on this resource allow students to change out “boring” words for more elevated ones! Tags: writing workshop, visual aids, synonyms, young writers, vocabulary
K - 8th
Creative Writing, Vocabulary, Writing
“It Takes 3” Board Game: no prep, 2 player game
A no-prep game that can be played to build classroom community, for game day, or for early finishers who can do something “fun”. 2-player game: 1 board game and 3 chips/tokens each. Each player places his/her tokens on a set of patterned spaces. Each player takes turns, sliding 1 of his/her tokens to an adjacent space. The player can ONLY slide over 1 space, where lines connect. The first player to get his/her 3 chips/tokens in a row, wins the game! Fun and easy!
K - 12th
Classroom Community, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning
Printable Student Glow-ups
Reinforce positive choices, recognizing students for their actions over their personality. Recognize when students choose to collaborate, take risks, show kindness, and more! These can easily be printed (cardstock recommended). The only difference between the 3 designs are the images in the center and the title fonts. But they all note the same positive choices. Easy management, as you can just simply check off the positive behavior from the list (without losing class time)…if the student tak
Not Specific
Character Education, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning
Self-Check: Editable Behavior Chart
Lessen the time for behavioral issues, and maximize student self-reflection. This is not just your ordinary behavior chart! This is a simple tool that allows students to reflect on different parts of the day. Rather than a point or scale system, this focuses on the child and his/her self-reflective process for choices made throughout the day. This "self-check" system allows students to mark on the continuum (similar to a number line), how he/she thinks he/she did during a particular block of
Not Specific
Arithmetic, Character Education, Writing
Editable Birthday Slides
Want an easy, low-prep way to celebrate the birthdays of your students? Here are 20 fully editable Canva slides that you can customize! You can change up the colors, graphics, and fonts to personalize it to each student you celebrate! I like to show one up on the screen while the students sing Happy Birthday, snap a photo and send it to the parents. They love it! Low budget and personal! Just simply download the file to access the link. You will get a copy of the link. When a birthday com
Not Specific
Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning
Solve, Defend, Share
A fantastic tool to help primary and upper grade students articulate their thinking when sharing how they solve word problems. This tool not only encourages students to use 2 or more strategies for solving, but provides a prompting for how they followed the steps for solving. Additionally, the last part of the share allows students to engage in self-reflection by sharing what they are most proud of, through the process of solving and sharing. This tool can be used for all students, includin
1st - 7th
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Numbers
Opinion Letter Writing Paper (2 versions)
2 versions of lined, opinion-writing paper. One version included in this download has a box at the top for a picture, followed by lines. The other version has lines, but the opinion letter writing paper has labels for writing the date, salutation, closing, and signature. The cover page is the front of a mailing envelope image, so that the young author can address his/her letter to whomever he/she chooses.
1st - 3rd
Handwriting, Other (ELA), Writing
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Experience
I'm an educator of primary kiddos and a recent author as well! I graduated with my bachelors in Elementary Education, specializing in Special Education and earned my M.A. in Education as well. I've taught K-2nd over the course of 25 years, and I love coming up with new and inventive ways to tackle learning, behavior, and building classroom connections! I'm a HUGE fan of adapting the learning to meet each student and enjoy creating on digital platforms! Follow me to stay updated with new products!
Teaching style
I'm a healthy balance of high expectations, with a lot of engaging fun built-in! I believe that I need to tap into each student's ideal modalities, in order to spark interest and excitement for learning!
Awards & shining teacher moments
I am the recipient of the Teacher of the Year at my school for the 2023-24 school year. I'm also Google Educator certified, am GATE-trained, and am a Cotsen Art of Teaching Fellowship alum.
My own education history
I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'em, Horns!) with a bachelor of science degree in Applied Learning and Development (Elementary Education), with a specialization in Special Education. Upon graduating, I moved to southern California, where I began my teaching career in Kindergarten. I taught Kindergarten for 7 years. During the course of that time, I received my Masters of Education from National University.
I took a 10 year break from teaching (to raise my own children). During that time, I served as a children's director for a local church, where I created curriculum for children, ages 3-10).
I re-entered the public sector of education by serving as an ELD instructor for 1 year, followed by a school TOSA for 2 years (focusing on reading instruction). I missed being in a classroom setting of my own, so as of 2017, I have been back in the classroom teaching 2nd grade (and a little bit of 1st).
Additional biographical information
I'm a PROUD children's book author! It has always been a dream to be fulfilled, and in 2024, I self-published my own book, titled "My Eyes to Your Heart: Seeing Students Through a Teacher's Lens". It's available on Amazon! This book highlights the fact that we as teachers can see the range of emotions in the children who walk into the classroom. And as we notice those feelings and emotions, we also encourage students to make the right choices through those emotions, because our hope as teachers is for them to pair confidence with humility, fear with strength, anger with kindness, and joy with encouragement for friendship. Additionally, this book was a labor of love, as my 2 teenage daughters digitally illustrated the pages so beautifully.
I also co-authored a book, alongside my husband. This book is titled: "Fail Forward: Lessons we've learned the hard way, so that you don't have to". It's a compilation of life's tidbits, mainly for our own daughters who are growing into young adults, but also for any teenager who is learning how to navigate the joys and pangs of life.
I live in southern California, with my husband, 2 daughters (one is officially a college student as of the 2025-26 school year), and dog.
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