About the store
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
Christmas Phonics and Math Activities
This Christmas literacy and math pack is perfect for that last week of school before the holiday break. This set includes a variety of phonics, writing, and math activities. What is Included:Literacycolor by numberword searchlong vowel soundsnouns, adjectives, and verbsroll & create (dice and place value)story writing prompt and paper (narrative)synonymsreindeer rules (opinion writing)compound wordscontractionsbook review templateChristmas at my house writing (Informative/explanatory) with prom
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Math
Number Sense Math Tool Kit
Building number sense creates a strong foundation for further learning in Math. These folders are visual representations of important concepts that will help your students to build that strong number sense foundation. Math Build-a-Folders is the perfect reference for your developing mathematicians. How to Use This Resource create a folder for each student with the visuals they need (Numbers to 10, numbers to 20, numbers to 100, 120)design a set of general number sense folders that can be use
K - 2nd
Math, Numbers
CCSS
K.CC.A.1
, K.CC.A.3
, K.CC.B.4a
+15
Also included in: Number Sense Worksheets and Activities Bundle
Place Value Lap Book
This Math Place Value Lap Book enables students to use 2 digit and/or 3 digit printables to create a lap book that represents their learning and understanding of place value. It's a great instructional or assessment set for place value.
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Students will:
★ Identify where they see numbers in the world
→ {ie. My Mom is 44 years old.}
★ Draw and color a picture of "Me Using Math". Lift the flap to see the student's writing about their picture.
→ {
1st - 3rd
Math, Place Value
Storybook Math Scaredy Squirrel
Story Book Math brings Math to life through children's literature. In this set, students will learn mathematical concepts based on the book Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt and through real life experiences. Scaredy Squirrel is afraid of everything. This hilarious story shows Scaredy Squirrel’s antics as he tries to avoid everything he is afraid of. This makes it the perfect book to hook students into the story and embed Math into the activities. Literacy+Math+SEL = a winner resource!This se
1st - 3rd
Math, Writing
Also included in: Storybook Math Scaredy Squirrel BUNDLE Google™ Onedrive and Print
Polar Bear Literacy and Math Activities
Playdate with a Polar Bear is a purposeful play resource set that is literacy and numeracy-based. Students will use play as a tool to help them create, spark ideas and enjoy their learning. You can use this as a grab-and-go for centers or fast finishers. In this pack, you will find: Playtime mini poster for your centerImages and labels for your Playdate box (student pencil box)Animals from the Arctic mini posterAnimal cutouts (in case you choose not to use plastic ones.)Two information cardsIllu
1st - 3rd
Math, Reading, Writing
Back to School 2nd Grade
Your students will love their first week back to school with this set of activities that will help you and your students get to know each other in a fun and educational way. The focus of this resource is TEAM.. Students will engage in "school themed" lessons that highlight students' knowledge of Math, ELA, Art and social skills in a fun and interactive way. This set includes: ELA: The Story of My Life Brainstorming and writing about things that tell all about that student including family, h
2nd
English Language Arts, Math
Also included in: Back to School Class Meeting Bundle
Math Stories: Halloween
Math Stories is designed to allow teachers to guide students through a mathematical story to teach them problem solving through story telling. It contains two interactive story boards where the teacher can model a Halloween mathematical story (included) and have students come up and be part of the story with their story pieces while using mathematical concepts to help them learn. Soon, your students will be creating their own literacy and mathematical stories on their own. Use provocations to
PreK - 1st
Math, Numbers
100th Day of School Activities
The 100th day of school is a pretty magical time. So much learning has occurred thus far in the year with much more to come. Celebrate the day with these printables that help your students identify what makes the 100th day the most special. In this set students will: draw or tell what they are 100 days better at nowcount to 100 on a hundred charttell when 100 is a lot and when it is notDraw or tell what they might look like when they are 100 years oldRepresent the quantity of 100 in a number of
1st - 2nd
Math, Writing
CCSS
K.CC.A.1
, 1.NBT.B.2
, W.K.2
+3
Number Collector Book Summer
When students are number collectors, they have their eyes and ears open. They are on the look out for all kinds of things they can count. It's like a do-it-yourself counting collection. The more kids count, the better they are at number sense which is crucial to math success later. This number collector book for summer has summer themed paper and has been designed with the early learner in mind. Students can use it this summer to collect words and keep learning. This resource includes: ★ cov
K - 2nd
Math, Numbers
Also included in: Word and Number Collector Summer Bundle
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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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