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The Exploratorium

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MENTOR, Ohio, United States
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15 years teaching students with Special needs 1 year reading specialist 4 years preschool teaching 5years homeschooling 2 years teaching ELL students 1 year teaching 4th grade in a project based school 2 years teaching 3,4,5th graders in a Catholic School 1 year teaching in a Classical Charter School 1 year as Kindergarten aide
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Preview of The Seven Natural Wonders of the World

The Seven Natural Wonders of the World

This product includes seven 8 1/2 x 11 posters of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Print and Post for geography fun.
Preview of Favorite Author's Poll

Favorite Author's Poll

This product includes a poll about favorite authors that students can do as homework. It has pictures of 9 famous authors as prompts to help if the people they poll get stuck. You can use the data for graphing, tallying, a family feud type game.
Preview of Safety town planning guide

Safety town planning guide

This product includes an idea list, planning worksheet and descriptions of activities for a safety town parents night. It could be used for project based learning to have the students plan a safety seminar for the younger students and their parents.
Preview of Are you lonely moon poem project

Are you lonely moon poem project

This project includes a poem about the moon and assignments for a week for your poetry center.
Preview of Future meteorologiests unite... Reading a Temperature chart

Future meteorologiests unite... Reading a Temperature chart

Worksheet good for homework, independent work or centers has students look up temperature charts and read the graph to answer questions about the temperatures in a given month.
Preview of Thanksgiving spell scramble

Thanksgiving spell scramble

This worksheet allows students to cut out the letters in the word Thanksgiving to rearrange them to write a list of words they create.
Preview of St. Nicholas Day Zap

St. Nicholas Day Zap

We celebrate St. Nicholas, the original Santa Claus on December 6th. Zap is one game we play on that day. It involves matching phrases about Saint Nicholas to make full sentences. It is good for subject and predicate work too. This product includes instructions for how to play and printable cards to use.
Preview of Family Fun at Christmas time

Family Fun at Christmas time

This product includes a letter to parents explaining the 'gift' and a list of games with descriptions that they can play over Christmas break.
Preview of Walking the floors

Walking the floors

Students pretend they are reflooring their home. Gather up some flooring samples. Students complete the worksheet which gives them practice figuring area and measuring width and length of a room.
Preview of Purple People Eater project

Purple People Eater project

This project include: the lyrics to the song, a chance for students to draw and describe their own purple people eater, some math problems related to the purple people eater involving elapsed time, measurements, and basic division. a write your own math problem about the purple people eater page
Preview of Have a messy party!

Have a messy party!

This product contains instructions for planning and having a messy party. There is a letter for parents asking for donations of materials and volunteers included. Works well as a class reward using WBT. Good end of the year celebration.
Preview of Alphabet posters with advice from Peanuts

Alphabet posters with advice from Peanuts

8 1/2 by 11 posters on slides for you to print for room decor. Peanuts theme, Each alphabet poster includes a Peanuts cartoon and fingerspelling photo
Preview of Artists at Work masterpiece labels

Artists at Work masterpiece labels

Slides template to create a coversheet for your students' latest art piece. Template allows students to create a cover page telling about their art and themselves as artists. Directions, examplar and template included.
Preview of Favorite Authors's slideshow

Favorite Authors's slideshow

A way to interest students in authors who might be new to them. Our class compiled a list of favorite authors and then found video clips about each author.
Preview of Get your heiroglyphics on...

Get your heiroglyphics on...

Alphabet chart for Ancient Egyptian heiroglyphics with suggested uses and a worksheet of questions with heiroglypic answers. Possible word work.
Preview of Quotation station

Quotation station

Use those macaroni noodles to mark the quotation marks and commas in some sentences about Chicago Cubs. Just slip the sheets in sheet protectors and give the students a box of macaroni noodles and you have an easy pre-make center ready to go. Differentiated by level of difficulty in the sentences and sentence topics for interests of students.
Preview of Geography walk activity and posters

Geography walk activity and posters

A product that can be used as musical chairs, cake walk, memory or any other way you choose to help students review where in the world they live. It is made specific to our school but you can easily edit and add your own school and locations.
Preview of The Container Challenge:  An inference project

The Container Challenge: An inference project

Students choose a container to fill with items a particular character they choose would use or need. They present their container to the class and the class writes their guesses down. Grading rubric and guessing/reaction sheet included.
Preview of Classroom poster-  cardinal and intermediate directions

Classroom poster- cardinal and intermediate directions

Use these Snoopy themed posters to label your classroom walls to help students develop a sense of directionality. North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest.
Preview of A River runs through it...

A River runs through it...

a supplemental activity to Indiana Weekly Interdependence Students use a map scale to figure out the length of different rivers, they also identify the number of states that the river runs through.
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About the store

Experience

15 years teaching students with Special needs 1 year reading specialist 4 years preschool teaching 5years homeschooling 2 years teaching ELL students 1 year teaching 4th grade in a project based school 2 years teaching 3,4,5th graders in a Catholic School 1 year teaching in a Classical Charter School 1 year as Kindergarten aide

Teaching style

very eclectic, Classical, Charlotte Mason, traditional, hands on meeting the needs of individual students

Awards & shining teacher moments

Light of Christ Teaching award 2018

My own education history

BS in Special and Elementary Education MS in Reading