Welcome to my shop! I'm so happy you are here! I have experience as an elementary teacher (1-5), teacher mentor, guest teacher and mom (twins!). The belief that ALL students can be creative thinkers guides all that I do. I am certified to teach gifted education and am pursuing my ESL endorsement. Elementary Math and integrated unit planning are my favorite subjects to teach. There is a little something for everyone in my shop! Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Welcome to my shop! I'm so happy you are here! I have experience as an elementary teacher (1-5), teacher mentor, guest teacher and mom (twins!). The belief that ALL students can be creative thinkers guides all that I do. I am certified to teach gifted education and am pursuing my ESL endorsement. Elementary Math and integrated unit planning are my favorite subjects to teach. There is a little something for everyone in my shop! Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
This 155 page Animal Research Bundle contains all you need to teach students how to complete an individualized, self-directed research project ending in a Natural History Museum. Students will learn how to research using non-fiction books and put the information in their own words! No more copying directly from the book! The process is broken down into day-to-day lessons.
This Animal Research bundle is differentiated and a perfect way to meet the needs of all of your students.
Students will choose one animal from a selection of grade-appropriate non-fiction and focus on their animal's adaptations, habitat, predators, prey/diet and other interesting facts.
Common Core and Science Standards aligned! Suggestions for guided reading groups are also included.
This Animal Research Bundle includes:
-5 + weeks of complete daily lesson plans
-Completed PROJECT SAMPLES to show your students what a quality animal research project looks like
-All student handouts, parent letters (English and Spanish) and teacher masters
-Choosing books for animal research
-Suggested Animal Lists
-Anchor Chart Printables
-Interactive Journal Pages
-Creative ways to assess prior knowledge
-Informational Text Features
-Informational Text vocabulary activities
-detailed instructions on how to teach students how to write an interesting paragraph with strong, varied language
-suggestions on how to supervise student work and create guided reading groups based on need
-step-by-step instructions on how to demonstrate to students how to make a No-to-Low cost diorama
-step-by-step instructions on how to demonstrate how to make animal research product using PowerPoint or Prezi
-Product Descriptors for easy grading! These Animal Research Product Descriptors are available in English and Spanish (translated using Google Translate)
-Writing Process Clip Chart
If you enjoy my Animal Research Project, check out my Biography Research Project!
CCSS ELA Standards:
RI.3.1
RI.3.3
RI.3.4
RI.3.5
RI.3.7
RI.3.8
RI.3.9
RI.3.10
RI.4.2
RI.4.5
RI.4.7
W.3.1
W.3.2
W.3.4
W.3.5
W.3.6
W.3.7
W.3.8
W.3.10
W.4.2
W.4.4
W.4.5
W.4.6
W.4.7
W.4.8
W.4.9
W.4.10
SL.3.3
SL.3.4
SL.3.6
SL.4.1
SL.4.2
SL.4.4
SL.4.5
L.3.1
L.3.2
L.3.3
L.3.4
L.3.5
L.3.6
L.4.1
L.4.2
L.4.3
L.4.4
L.4.5
L.4.6
Looking for something to get your students in the spirit of Thanksgiving? This Thanksgiving Math & Literacy Pack includes two packs that are perfect for enrichment or early finishers in your classroom! Please see each item for a FULL description!
1. Thanksgiving Math Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thanksgiving-math-pack-11119478
2. Thanksgiving Creative Thinking Packhttps://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thanksgiving-creative-thinking-pack-11120420
This Christmas Math and Literacy Pack are two packets that will get your students in the Christmas Spirit. Use these Christmas packs for early finishers, review or enrichment! Please see each product for a FULL description!
1. Christmas Math Packhttps://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-math-pack-11119491
2. Christmas Creative Thinking Packhttps://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-creative-thinking-pack-11120892
Looking for even MORE things Christmas? Check out my Christmas MEGA Bundle!!! The Mega Bundle includes FIVE Christmas-Themed Activities! You can find it HERE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-mega-bundle-11123164
Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE for 3rd Grade
Your students will fall in LOVE with this Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE! Everything from word problems to puzzles and games. This Valentine's Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE is perfect for review, early finishers, small groups, centers and guest teachers!
This Valentine’s Day BUNDLE includes:
Valentine’s Day Math Pack for 3rd Grade
Valentine’s Day Creative Thinking Pack
Valentine's Day Math Pack for 3rd Grade includes:
*Valentine’s Day Word Problems
*Valentine's Day Math Graphing Data and Picture Graphs
*Valentine's Day Addition and subtraction to 1000 in a fun Color by Answer
*Valentine's Day Ordering Numbers
*Valentine's Day Multiplication and Division fact families up to 100
*Valentine's Day Area with tiling and multiplication- Design a house for Cupid using the given units!
*Valentine's Day Comparing Fractions
*Valentine's Day Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
*Valentine's Day Time and Money
*A Valentine's Day Math Hundred's Chart hidden picture- solve 100 problems to find the Valentine picture!
*Cupid’s Busy Day- a Valentine's Day Multiplication Game for the hundred chart
Included in this Valentine's Day Activity packet you will find:
Don’t Know What You've Got
Love is Grand?
World Without Love
The ABC’s of Valentine’s Day
Really, You Shouldn't Have
Will You Be My BETTER Valentine?
Love is in the Air
A Valentine’s Day Surprise
The Future of Candy Hearts
Valentine’s Day in Pictures
A Remote by Any Other Name
Love Machine
Answer: Valentine’s Day
Love City
A Unique Valentine
A Valentine's Day Mystery
The Procrastinating Valentine
Pucker Up
I love Cinquains
Cupid’s New Job
Sample Answers included with these Valentine's Day activities to get you and your class thinking!
Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE for 4th Grade
Your students will fall in LOVE with this Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE! Everything from word problems to puzzles and games. This Valentine's Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE is perfect for review, early finishers, small groups, centers and guest teachers!
This Valentine’s Day BUNDLE includes:
Valentine's Day Math Pack for 4th Grade
Valentine’s Day Creative Thinking Pack
Included in this Valentine's Day Math Pack for 4th Grade you will find:
*Valentine’s Day word problems for all operations. One and two step
*Writing fractions as a decimal
*Ordering fractions with different denominators or numerators
*Valentine’s Day Hundred Chart hidden picture! Students will answer 120 questions to find the hidden picture
*Valentine's Day Math Color by Product- Multiply two double digit number or a four digit number by a one digit number to find the correct colors
*Rounding numbers to any place value, expanded form and word form up to the millions
*Valentine's Day Math Map Problem Follow the directions to draw a map of Cupid’s Neighborhood! Identify rays, line segments, lines and right triangles within the map. OR use the map that is already provided to answer the questions
*Valentine’s Day Fraction line plots
*Valentine Card shapes
*Cupid’s Busy Day- a multiplication game for the hundred chart
Included in this Valentine's Day Activity packet you will find:
Don’t Know What You've Got
Love is Grand?
World Without Love
The ABC’s of Valentine’s Day
Really, You Shouldn't Have
Will You Be My BETTER Valentine?
Love is in the Air
A Valentine’s Day Surprise
The Future of Candy Hearts
Valentine’s Day in Pictures
A Remote by Any Other Name
Love Machine
Answer: Valentine’s Day
Love City
A Unique Valentine
A Valentine's Day Mystery
The Procrastinating Valentine
Pucker Up
I love Cinquains
Cupid’s New Job
Sample Answers included with these Valentine's Day activities to get you and your class thinking!
This Bundle contains two of my popular Christmas packets! These packets are perfect for early finishers or enrichment. Save 20% when you BUNDLE!
1) Christmas Math Pack for 4th Grade
2) Christmas Creative Thinking Pack
This Bundle contains two of my popular Christmas packets! These packets are perfect for early finishers or enrichment. Save 20% when you BUNDLE! Please see each product for a full preview!
1. Christmas Math Pack for 5th Grade
2. Christmas Creative Thinking Pack
This BUNDLE includes my Summer Math Pack for 3rd Grade and my Summer Creative Thinking Pack. Please see the full descriptions below:
This Summer Math Pack contains 29 pages of summer-themed math practice for 3rd graders. This pack is fully aligned to 3rd grade common core standards. These packets are fun, engaging and many activities are self-checking! It makes great practice before school starts!
This packet reviews:
Word Problems for all operations- one and two step
Finding the missing number in an equation
Rounding
Three digit addition and subtraction
Area and Perimeter
Shapes
Fractions
Graphing- creating a scaled graph and a bar graph
Plotting numbers on a number line
Measuring to the nearest ¼, ½ and ¾ inch
Time
Common Core Standards
3.MD.A.1, 3.MD.B.3, 3.MD.B.4, 3.MD.C.5, 3.MD.C.6, 3.MD.C.7, 3.NBT.A.1, 3.NBT.A.2, 3.NBT.A.3, 3.OA.A.1, 3.OA.A.2, 3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.A.4, 3.OA.B.6, 3.OA.C.7, 3.OA.D.8, 3.NF.A.1
Summer Creative Thinking Packet
These language rich creative thinking Summer activities may be used individually or stapled together to create a Summer activity packet (black line cover included). Fostering creative thinking has been shown to increase learning in all areas. This Summer Activity Packet will do just that!
Included in this Summer Activities packet you will find:
*Student Cover- a blackline student cover is included in this summer activity
*The ABC’s of Summer- for this summer activity, write one word for every letter of the alphabet that has to do with summer
*In Summer You Can’t… - Find some activities that you cannot do in summer
*Endless Summer- tell how things would be different if it were always summer
*Can Summer GET Any Better? Yes! It Can! - Make summer bigger, add something to summer and replace/remove something
*Summer Inventions- Using some given items, create a summer invention
*Summer is Great…Mostly…- what are some things that are not so great about summer?
*Too Many Arm Floaties- List other uses for arm floaties in this summer activity
*A New Summer Sensation- Combine two summer things to create a new summer invention
*The Perfect Summer Beverage- The only thing your town can drink is lemonade, describe how you will enforce this
*And the Question is…-write questions that have the answer "sunburn"
*Signs of Summer- a sign showed up in your neighborhood. Tell how it has to do with summer.
*Summer Poetry
*It’s Just so HOT!- In this summer activity, come up with some creative ways to keep cool!
*Let’s Go Play! -Design a new summer game/toy/activity
Common Core Standards
W.2.5, W.2.8, W.3.1, W.3.2, W.3.4, W.4.2, W.4.8, W.5.4, W.5.8, L.2.1, L.2.2, L.2.5, L.3.1, L.3.2, L.4.1, L.4.2, L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3
This is the Ultimate Halloween Activity Bundle. It contains everything you need for Halloween. Included in this Halloween Activity Bundle is 116 pages of:
Halloween Activities for Literacy Pack
This is a packet of 20 creative thinking, writing and math Halloween Activities. These Halloween activities may be used individually or stapled together to create a Halloween Activities packet
Included in this Halloween activity packet you will find:
-A Mummy Can't
-Halloween Everyday
-Ghostly Problems
-What is THAT?
-Halloween Words
-Halloween BAR
-The Bagless Wonder
-Halloween Imagination
-Halloween Fashion
-Halloween Problems
-Malinda the "Green" Witch
-What? No Candy!?!
-The Vampire and the Pumpkin
-Crazy Costume
-Frankenstein is the Answer
- The Next Big Thing
-Candy Drop
-Pumpkin Carving
-The Missing Foot
-Halloween Haiku
This Halloween Activity Pack includes a Product Descriptor for easy grading!!!
Sample Answers included to get you and your class thinking!
Halloween Math Activities
This Halloween math Activity packet is geared towards 2nd, 3rd and as a review for 4th graders. It includes story problems, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and graphing.
Included you will find 25 pages of Halloween Math:
*Halloween Math Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division Stories
*Halloween Math Multiplication and Division Stories
*Halloween Math Candy Graphing
*Halloween Math Fractions
*Halloween Math Probability
*Find the Missing Number
*Halloween Math Fact Families
*Halloween Rounding and Secret Message
*Halloween Hidden Picture
Answer Key is included!
Halloween Party Pack
Halloween Letter home to parents requesting volunteers and snacks (all provided choices are peanut free). These letters are available in English and Spanish.
Halloween Word Scramble Game
Pass the Pumpkin Game
Trick or Treat Game
Candy Corn Relay Game
Halloween Word Search
Halloween Coloring Pages
Halloween Bingo
No Hands Pass the Mini Pumpkin
I Want My Mummy!
I hope that you and your class enjoy this selection of Halloween activities and Halloween Party Games! All of these items are available individually in my store. Save money when you bundle!
This Thanksgiving Activity Bundle includes 5 Thanksgiving Themed Activity Packs!!! Packed full of one month's worth of Thanksgiving Themed Learning Activities.
This Bundle Includes:
1. Thanksgiving Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thanksgiving-creative-thinking-pack-11120420
2.Thanksgiving Math Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thanksgiving-math-pack-11119478
3. How To Cook a Turkey Writing and Craft https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-to-cook-a-turkey-11123170
4. Pilgrim Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pilgrim-creative-thinking-packet-11120198
5. Race to the New World- A Game for the 100s Chart https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/race-to-the-new-world-a-thanksgiving-game-for-the-hundreds-chart-11124063
Everything you need for the month of November!
Everything you need for the month of December! 159 pages of Christmas FUN! There is simply too much in this bundle to describe it all in this space! Please see each link for a FULL product description and preview. Included in this Christmas MEGA Bundle:
Christmas Math packet https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-math-pack-11119491
Christmas Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-creative-thinking-pack-11120892
Christmas Kindness Elves https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kindness-elves-a-new-christmas-tradition-11122273
Christmas Party Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-party-pack-11122280
The Great Elf Contest https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-great-elf-contest-a-christmas-game-for-the-hundreds-chart-11122281
Save 15% when you bundle!!!
CCSS ELA Standards:
W.2.5
W.2.8
W.3.2
W.3.5
W.4.2
W.4.8
W.5.4
W.5.8
L.2.1
L.2.2
L.3.1
L.3.2
L.4.1
L.4.2
L.5.1
L.5.2
L.5.3
CCSS Math Standards:
2.MD.C.7
2.MD.C.8
3.MD.A.1
3.MD.A.2
3.MD.B.3
2.NBT.A.3
2.NBT.B.7
3.NBT.A.1
3.NBT.A.2
3.NBT.A.3
4.NBT.A.3
4.NBT.B.4
3.OA.A.1
3.OA.A.2
3.OA.A.3
3.OA.A.4
3.OA.B.5
3.OA.B.6
3.OA.C.7
3.OA.D.8
3.OA.D.9
4.OA.A.1
4.OA.A.2
4.OA.A.3
4.OA.C.5
3.NF.A.1
3.NF.A.3b
2.G.A.3
Get a Creative Thinking Packet for EVERY month of the school year! Push your students to think on their own and explore possibilities that they might not have thought possible! These packets are perfect for enrichment or early finishers! Please see each link for a full description and preview of each!
Included in this Creative Thinking Mega Bundle, you will find:
Back to School Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-creative-thinking-pack-11120413
Fall Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/fall-creative-thinking-packet-11120039
Halloween Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-creative-thinking-pack-11119454
Thanksgiving Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thanksgiving-creative-thinking-pack-11120420
Pilgrim Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pilgrim-creative-thinking-packet-11120198
Christmas Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-creative-thinking-pack-11120892
Winter Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/winter-creative-thinking-pack-11120920
Valentine's Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/valentine-s-day-creative-thinking-pack-11120936
Thinkin' About Lincoln https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thinkin-about-lincoln-11120328
St. Patrick's Day Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-creative-thinking-packet-11123162
Summer Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/summer-creative-thinking-packet-11124028
Get a Creative Thinking Packet for EVERY month of the school year! Push your students to think on their own and explore possibilities that they might not have thought possible! These packets are perfect for enrichment or early finishers! Please see each link for a full description and preview of each!
Included in this Creative Thinking Mega Bundle, you will find:
Back to School Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-creative-thinking-pack-11120413
Fall Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/fall-creative-thinking-packet-11120039
Halloween Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-creative-thinking-pack-11119454
Thanksgiving Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thanksgiving-creative-thinking-pack-11120420
Pilgrim Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pilgrim-creative-thinking-packet-11120198
Christmas Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-creative-thinking-pack-11120892
Winter Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/winter-creative-thinking-pack-11120920
Valentine's Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/valentine-s-day-creative-thinking-pack-11120936
Thinkin' About Lincoln https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/thinkin-about-lincoln-11120328
St. Patrick's Day Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-creative-thinking-packet-11123162
Summer Creative Thinking Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/summer-creative-thinking-packet-11124028