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My goal after years of classroom teaching experience was to create useful and meaningful resources that teachers love using and find helpful. I started creating resources in 2012 when I couldn't find anything that would help me teach students to write, as well as support students' social and emotional learning.
Most of my career has been in the primary years; specifically grades 2 and 3. I've also taught and been an instructional coach for K-6. Many of the classes I have taught were split/combination classes, so I learned early on how to integrate subject areas for maximum learning and engagement. I find this approach helps with the overwhelming feeling of trying to "get it all done". I enjoy helping new teachers with this!
You will find resources for K-5 on reading, writing, math, social-emotional learning, and project-based learning.
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Passion Project Genius Hour PBL
Passion projects are designed to interest your students in the process of learning. If learning is meaningful, students will be more engaged. What better way to do this than to have them pick the topics. This is a great end-of-the-year activity and project for students to teach the teacher! Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your students could learn about what they wanted to learn about and be engaged and intrigued by learning? What would it be like if all of your students were
2nd - 4th
Art, Math, Science
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Bundle
PERFECT Book Unit | Back to School
Add Perfect by Max Amato to your back to school activities. Your students will be drawn to this playful story of perfectionism and learn that it's okay to make mistakes - right from the first day of school! This is a delightful story about a "perfectionist" eraser and a carefree pencil. Together, that is not a good combination. As the eraser works like mad to erase everything the pencil does, it ends up learning that the energy spent is not only exhausting but makes for a lonely existence. Th
1st - 4th
Character Education, Reading
Animal Changes in Fall
Animals adapt to all kinds of situations in order to survive. 3 kinds of adaptations include behavioral, physical and physiological. Help your students learn more about these adaptations in relation to North American animals. Included in this science and literacy set: teacher notes on each adaptation mini poster about these 3 adaptations in kid-friendly languageteacher notes on each of the 3 animals featured: bear, Canada goose and snowshoe harestudent worksheets with information to reada wr
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Science, Writing
Also included in: Fall Cross-Curricular Bundle
Fire Safety Community Helpers Activities
Teach Fire Safety and keep all of the important lessons in one place. Students can look back at the lessons in the lap book they create and keep for reference at home! This fire safety lap book is designed to visually support students as they learn about important fire safety lessons. Students will learn about general fire safety, fire safety at home, and all about firefighters and the tools they use. This includes a place for students to make a smart plan. Fire Safety is important for kids to
1st - 3rd
Writing
Also included in: Lap Book Year Long Bundle Fire Safety Christmas Earth Day Friendship
Goal Setting and Self Assessment for Primary
Self-assessment and goal-setting help students stay engaged in their learning and be able to see their growth. Students can celebrate growth and set goals for improvement. This resource supports a growth mindset in your classroom. You can use this resource to: get to know your students at the beginning of the yearsupport parent-teacher conferences accompany a student-led conferenceas a self-reflection for report cardsas a self-reflection for British Columbia Core Competencies This self-assessm
1st - 4th
For All Subjects
Also included in: New Teacher Survival Kit: Writing Bundle
Remembrance Day Canada November
Remembrance Day is an important part of Canada and Canadian history. Help your students learn about the sacrifices that took place for our freedom today. This Remembrance Day resource contains information and materials that you will need for your students to learn about Remembrance Day and create a beautiful lapbook to showcase their learning. You can help your students understand that soldiers fought for our freedom and that we honour the veterans in many ways each year on November 11th. Yo
1st - 3rd
Reading, Social Studies, Writing
Also included in: Lap Book Year Long Bundle Fire Safety Christmas Earth Day Friendship
Spring Poetry Poetry Writing
This spring-themed poetry mini unit includes 4 original poems that can be used for poem of the week or other poetry activities in April. Help your students build fluency, vocabulary and writing skills with this spring-themed poetry set. Use these poems in the pocket chart or projected onto a screen for students to read and enjoy. This poetry sampler includes 4 original spring poems and 3 lessons & activities to help students to learn more about poetry. Included in this pack:4 original poems on
1st - 3rd
Poetry, Writing
CCSS
RL.2.10
, RF.2.4
, SL.2.2
+1
Mindful Journal Prompts Morning Meeting Ideas
Mindful journal prompts help students to think of everyday ways to self-reflect and be kind. This easy-to-use social-emotional activities resource is perfect for morning work or morning meetings to help students with self-awareness which helps support self-regulation. Mindful Journal Prompts engage students in thinking deeper about the kind and caring traits that make up a good person. There are 15 writing prompts ranging from honesty to identifying why being patient with grandparents and ol
1st - 3rd
Classroom Community, Writing
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning Bundle
Scientific Method: Scientist For a Day
Scientist for A Day- Here it is - A super easy and super fun Science set for primary scientists! No prep take home Science.
This is like the "Home Reading" of Science. After teaching students basic observation skills using their 5 senses, I introduce Scientist for a Day. It's a great way to get more experiments into your Science program and kids LOVE IT!
I have included an anchor chart to teach or review the Scientific Method. Also included is a simple yet effective lesson for the teacher
1st - 3rd
Basic Principles, Science
Social Emotional Learning: Character Education
This Character Traits resource will help your students learn positive character traits that will help to build a caring and compassionate classroom environment. It is a perfect start to social and emotional learning lessons or to use with SEL books. Included in this pack are the following traits: CompassionConsiderationCooperationCourageFriendshipGenerosityHonestyPerseveranceRespectResponsibilityWhat is included: An 8 1/2 x 11 size poster of each trait with a kid-friendly definition. A set of
K - 4th
Character Education, Classroom Community, Writing
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning Bundle
Poetry Unit Poetry Month Year Long
Poetry For All Seasons is a complete, no prep, year-long poetry activity pack. Use this set as part of a poem of the week routine. 4 original poems for each season are included ( 16 poems in all) as well as poetry skills lessons and templates for students to write their own poems. Reading and writing poetry helps strengthens reading and writing skills such as reading comprehension, fluency and descriptive writing. Using poems helps to engage your students as most students find poetry enjoy
1st - 3rd
Poetry, Writing
CCSS
RL.1.10
, RL.2.4
, RL.3.10
Also included in: New Teacher Survival Kit: Writing Bundle
Student Led Conferences Parent Teacher Conferences
Student-led conferences give students a chance to showcase the learning they have done in the classroom. Strength-based and with a growth mindset, students can use this as a privacy folder when 4 groups of students do their conference at the same time. This eco-friendly set can be printed and laminated and then used year after year. What you get in this set:Printables to create a colored privacy folder for the conference (that will be used again and again).Cover images: Privacy Please, Stud
1st - 3rd
For All Subjects
Also included in: New Teacher Survival Kit: Writing Bundle
Brain Breaks
Brain breaks are important times in the day. The best brain activities train the brain to have a break so that students can focus and learn. These activities are designed to brain train not brain drain. Teach students the difference between behaviors and activities that promote learning and focus and ones that drain your focus. This mini-unit is chock-full of fresh ideas to get kids learning and focused first thing in the morning in the first month of school and/or throughout the year (especiall
2nd - 4th
Character Education, English Language Arts, Social Emotional Learning
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Bundle
End of the Year Activities and Memory Book First Second Third Grade
This end-of-the-year memory book will be the perfect keepsake for your students. It includes all the wonderful things about the year that your students will want to remember.This set includes: Title page for 1st-3rd grades (great for multi-grade classes or if you switch grades).This is Me! (girl, boy or multi-faces option)This is my schoolThis is my teacherThese are the students in my classMy favorite subjectsSeparate pages for my favorite things about Math, Writing, SS Science and sportsMy
1st - 3rd
Also included in: End of the Year Bundle 1
Writing Prompts Story Elements Trading Cards
Use these trading cards as a more interesting form of writing prompts. These trading cards help students generate writing ideas through the story elements pictures and the discussions students have about each one. Students are very motivated to write when they use these trading cards. There are 3 different sets of cards included in this pack. Each set has 28 (one-sided) cards: characterssettingsevents & cluesThe character cards come in color and black and white to allow students to color or ad
K - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Writing
A Bear in War Book Unit Remembrance Day November
A Bear in Warby Stephanie Innes & Harry Endrulat is an endearing story about war and family told from the point of view of a little teddy bear. This book, based on the true story of a Canadian teddy bear that traveled all the way to France in 1916, will surely bring a tear to the eye and is perfect for Remembrance Day or Memorial Day. The story will help engage students to understand a bit more about the impact of war as they see it unfold through the eyes of a teddy bear. Through this connectio
2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
Also included in: Remembrance Day Bundle November
Main Idea
In this main idea resource, your students will be exposed to ways that they can learn how to determine the main idea of a non-fiction text or fiction text (theme/main idea) by following a few steps and asking themselves pertinent questions. ********** Included in this set for you: Mini posters to teach main idea: mini anchor chart and poster to show students how to find the main idea of non-fiction and fiction text. (The main idea drives the text.) Concept mapping: printables for students to
2nd - 4th
Reading, Writing
Also included in: Main Idea and Author's Purpose Bundle
Winter Literacy Centers
Literacy Centers for Winter is full of reading comprehension and writing ideas to get your kids writing and practicing their writing skills. Informational, procedural, journals - it's all here! This winter-themed writing pack has so many components that will keep your little readers and writers thinking! ******************** What is included: Winter writing: WOULD YOU RATHER...?Funky and Fresh Opinion-based journal prompts W.2.1 Opinion Writing Winter writing: HOW TO!Procedural scenarios that
2nd - 3rd
Reading, Writing
CCSS
RF.2.4
, RF.3.4
, W.2.1
+6
Also included in: Literacy Centers Yearlong Bundle
Winter Sports Events
Many kids love winter sports! Here is a great pack of activities for students to learn about the winter sports that they love and ones they may have never heard of. In this set of printables you will find activities on the following sports: skiing snowboarding ice skating ice hockey (generic, or country themed helmet:USA, Canada or Australia) bobsled Added activities on a torch relay and the podium. For EACH sport I have included: 1 non-fiction reading passage with 1 language activity 1 non-fic
1st - 3rd
Reading, Writing
Writing Office
This set of writing folder printables allows each students to have a private writing space on their desk while begin able to reference Common Core writing words lists and editing criteria. Included in this resource are action words, transition words, editing checklist, feeling words, personalized cover pages that can be re-used if laminated. (There is a Cdn version attached with the word colour) Black and white and color versions included. Just print, glue onto 2 file folders and staple togethe
1st - 4th
English Language Arts
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About the store
Experience
My goal after years of classroom teaching experience was to create useful and meaningful resources that teachers love using and find helpful. I started creating resources in 2012 when I couldn't find anything that would help me teach students to write, as well as support students' social and emotional learning.
Most of my career has been in the primary years; specifically grades 2 and 3. I've also taught and been an instructional coach for K-6. Many of the classes I have taught were split/combination classes, so I learned early on how to integrate subject areas for maximum learning and engagement. I find this approach helps with the overwhelming feeling of trying to "get it all done". I enjoy helping new teachers with this!
You will find resources for K-5 on reading, writing, math, social-emotional learning, and project-based learning.
Teaching style
I'm a big believer in using a reading, writing and math workshop approach to teaching. It provides such a great framework for students to follow and allows for creative and expansive learning. I'm also a big fan of the integrated learning approach.
Teaching more than one curricular area in a unit will not only save you time AND resources but will also increase engagement and learning. For this reason, I also love to create science, social studies, math, and project-based learning/genius hour resources where literacy and social-emotional learning are woven in.
My creative resources are skill-based and uniquely designed to make it easy for you to teach and motivate kids to learn to their fullest potential! They are designed to:
* be time-saving and easy to use for teachers
* increase reading, writing and math skills (both explicitly and in an integrated way)
* promote learning independence and collaboration skills
* develop higher-level thinking skills even with the youngest learners
* increase social-emotional skills
* adaptable for all learners
* making learning fun
Awards & shining teacher moments
Always the best shining moments are the ones that involve students and their successes both academically and socially and emotionally.
I just completed writing an online course for teachers for a large university on Teaching Reading and Other Literacies.
I wrote the Scholastic Canada Let's Do Science Units (3rd-grade Biodiversity & Matter) for British Columbia. I was also the literacy reviewer for the 3-5th grade Social Studies curriculum (Pearson Canada)
In past years, I was featured in Texas Teachers magazine for mindfulness, the BC Primary Teachers journal and the Tennessee Reading Teacher.
My own education history
BEd. (elementary education) University of British Columbia
MEd. in Curriculum and Instruction University of British Columbia
Additional biographical information
You can find out more about me and some teaching ideas and tips on my blog: www.thewritestuffteaching.com
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