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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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Social Emotional Learning Gratitude & Social Skills Curriculum
This social-emotional learning set takes you step-by-step through a mindful, self-regulation program that helps students to become kinder and more self-aware. Teaching these social skills help to build a strong classroom community. Watch your students grow in self-confidence and self-regulation and become stronger learners. This set includes both a DIGITAL and print version. Explicit teaching of social-emotional learning in the classroom is becoming more and more important for every child to
K - 4th
Character Education, Classroom Community, School Counseling
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Bundle
Mothers Day Book of Gratitude Print & Digital
Mother's Day is a special day for our students to practice gratitude by creating a thoughtful Mother's Day book. This book represents different ethnicities. Print and Digital included. Check out the preview for the FULL print book. Options included. The digital copy of this resource has a mother with a boy and girl on the front cover and and one with a boy on the cover and has 7 pages. Students can use Google Classroom™ or OneDrive. Students can type or draw with Google™ draw. ================
K - 3rd
Character Education, Writing
Also included in: End of the Year Mindfulness Bundle
Unicorns Have Feelings Too Digital Writing and SEL Google™ OneDrive
You read that right! ...even unicorns have feelings! Students will use this colorful digital resource to engage in social emotional learning, sentence writing, drawing or writing reflections and creating their own oral story! This engaging resource gives your students some unicorn scenarios and tells the students what the unicorn is feeling. Students then type one sentence saying "why" the unicorn is feeling this way. Self reflection follows this with a question on when they have ever felt the s
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening, Writing
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W.K.3
, SL.K.5
, SL.K.6
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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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