Laminate this product and keep in your students' writing folders when teaching compare and contrast writing. This tool keeps comparative language at your students' fingertips and as a result helping the quality of your students' writing/word choice.
Ready for in person or distance learning! Introduce your students to historic LGBT Americans during your ELA or Social Studies block! This is a perfect resource to make your classroom more inclusive to LGBT families as well as teaching a well rounded US History curriculum. This product is great for LGBT History month (October) as well as LGBT Pride Month in June. This no prep resource gives an introduction to the famous LGBT Americans, and events, along with graphic organizers to record facts f
Help your students practice the distributive property of multiplication by using this Distributive Property Halloween Mystery Picture. Students color the letters of the correct answer to reveal a message. This activity is perfect for properties of multiplication review and give practice with misconceptions especially splitting the multiplication fact. What's included: Distributive Property Mystery Picture Distributive Property Mystery Picture answer key. Skills Covered: Using the Distrib
All resources are ready for Google Classroom! Introduce your students to LGBT History during your ELA or Social Studies block! This is a perfect resource to make your classroom more inclusive to LGBT families as well as teaching a well rounded US History curriculum. This bundle is great for LGBT History month (October) as well as LGBT Pride Month in June. This no prep resource includes: -Reading passages for students K-5, covering famous LGBT Americans and historic events. -Vocabulary Activiti
Engage your elementary students by using this Common and Proper Nouns Digital Escape Room as a check for understanding. This is a self checking slide that the students have to identify if the noun is common or proper. This activity is perfect as homework, a center or a quick assessment to see if your students are ready to move on or need a reteach. What's included: Digital Escape the Room sheet for each student. Skills Covered: Capitalization If you like this product check out this Propert
Bring LGBTQ representation into your classroom with this digital download of famous LGBTQ Americans! Print and post to a bulletin board or a door to celebrate LGBT History Month in October or Pride Month in June.
K - 5th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Social Studies
Make your data collection a breeze with these common core aligned third grade rubrics! These rubrics are for individual students if you organize your data by individual portfolio, and whole group if you are looking for what what skills to plan mini lessons to reteach. These rubrics are perfect for conferencing, grading, and planning to make sure you hit all of your standards throughout the year. What's included: Note taking pages for individual and groups.Reading Literature Standards Checklist
This is a self checking division center for promoting fact fluency. I used spatulas I bought from the dollar store to make it a little more fun! Students took turns finding a fact they thought they know and told it to a partner, they flipped the egg to check. If they were correct they kept the egg. The student with the most eggs at the end won.
This history e-book can be used in your social studies or reading block. This text will teach your students about Gilbert Baker, the artist who designed the rainbow flag. There are printable pages to reflect on their learning and respond to reading. The culminating project is to design a flag that represents their family.
1st - 4th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Social Studies
Ready for Google Classroom Introduce your students to historic LGBT Americans during your ELA or Social Studies block! This is a perfect resource to make your classroom more inclusive to LGBT families as well as teaching a well rounded US History curriculum. This product is great for LGBT History month (October) as well as LGBT Pride Month in June. This no prep resource gives an introduction to the person, along with a graphic organizer to record facts from their reading! LGBT Americans Include
This winter multiplication packet is perfect for math groups and guided math. On the top of each page there is a letter A, B, C, or D. Each page increases in difficulty while practicing the same skill. Choose which skills your math groups need and print and go! There is also a Google Classroom compatible version included to use for homework or in a virtual setting. To access the Google Slides click the link on the "How to Use this Product" page. Differentiated skills included are: Fact Flu
This e-book can be used during your ELA block or Social Studies block to teach your students about some of the major events in the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement. This e-book covers: Annual RemindersThe Stonewall UprisingCompton's Cafeteria RiotsDewey's Sit InsHIV/AIDS Epidemic and ActivismSupreme Court RulingsIncluded are graphic organizers to have students reflect while reading.
Ready for Google Classroom! This history e-book can be used in your social studies or reading block. This text will teach your students about Gilbert Baker, the artist who designed the rainbow flag. There are printable pages to reflect on their learning and respond to reading. The culminating project is to design a flag that represents their family.
1st - 5th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Social Studies
Ready for Google Classroom! Have your students engage in an authentic research task to celebrate LGBT History Month or Pride Month! Using the graphic organizer and writing page, students can learn about great LGBT Americans such as Harvey Milk and Marsha P Johnson. This resource also includes an editable blank page for students to research an LGBT American of their choice.
Introduce your students to historic LGBT Americans during your ELA or Social Studies block! This is a perfect resource to make your classroom more inclusive to LGBT families as well teaching a well rounded US History curriculum. This product is great for LGBT History month (October) as well as LGBT Pride Month in June. This no prep resource gives an introduction to the person, along with a graphic organizer to record facts from their reading! LGBT Americans Included: Barbara GittingsSylvia Ri
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Social Studies
Have your students engage in an authentic research task to celebrate LGBT History Month or Pride Month! Using the graphic organizer and writing page, students can learn about great LGBT Americans such as Harvey Milk and Marsha P Johnson.
Engage your elementary students by using this classmate bingo activity! This is the perfect first day of school activity! Use after teaching your classroom procedures and students can interact with each other to get to know each other. This activity is perfect for the first day of school after your first community meeting or morning meeting. It also has a social emotional learning component giving students sentence stems for introductions. What's included: Class instructions Bingo Sheet Col
Ready for Google Classroom! This e-book can be used during your ELA block or Social Studies block to teach your students about some of the major events in the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement. This e-book covers: Annual RemindersThe Stonewall UprisingCompton's Cafeteria RiotsDewey's Sit InsHIV/AIDS Epidemic and ActivismSupreme Court RulingsIncluded are graphic organizers to have students reflect while reading.
This resource includes words for a word wall or a focus wall for LGBT History Month. This product includes the words of the LGBT acronym, famous events in LGBT history and graphic organizers for Marzano style vocabulary instruction. This product pairs with the LGBT History e-book, which describes many historic events in LGBT History.
Make your data collection a breeze with these common core aligned third grade math rubrics! These rubrics are for individual students if you organize your data by individual portfolio, and whole group if you are looking for what what skills to plan mini lessons to reteach. These rubrics are perfect for conferencing, grading, and planning to make sure you hit and remediate all of your standards throughout the year in your math block. What's included: Note taking pages for individual and group
I've been teaching since 2011. I have taught 1st grade and 3rd grade as well as English as a Second Language.
Teaching style
Fun and Engaging with lots of energy! As one of my students captured my teaching style with a compliment this week, "You're not ALWAYS crazy Ms O!"
Less whole class instruction and more student talk (after years of teaching English Language Learners) Small groups for differentiated instruction which calls for meaningful centers for students practice learned skills!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Star Teacher 2018
My own education history
Sheltered English Immersion 2015
Masters in Elementary Ed
BA in English
Additional biographical information
I am a wife and a mother. My family is the most important thing to me, so my goal is to create products that are easy to internalize, effectively teach the standard, and get teachers home to their loved ones!
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