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!
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!
10 Earth Friendly Activities perfect for Earth Day or ANY day! These projects were selected for this packet because they truly inspire a love of the environment and give kids simple, hands on activities that will give them ownership of the world around them. You can use these throughout the year or choose a few to use to celebrate Earth Day. These are also great for after school environmental clubs!
This packet includes:
*Packing a Waste Free Lunch
*Mining Simulation
*Milk Carton Herb Garden
*Cave Painting
*Earth Day Word Search & Answer Key
*Backyard Bird Identification
*Anatomy of a Bird
*Backyard Bird Identification Journal
*Leaf Journal
*Parts of a Leaf
*FREE field trips
*Leaf Identification
*Leaf Identification Journal
*Shoe Box Composting
*Helping to save the Monarch Butterfly
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 Creative Thinking 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 Sweets!?!
-The Vampire and the Pumpkin
-Crazy Costume
-Frankenstein is the Answer
-The Next Big Thing
-Sweets 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 Maths Activities
This Maths Pack includes story problems, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and graphing.
Included you will find 25 pages of Halloween Maths:
*Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division Stories
*Multiplication and Division Stories
*Halloween Sweets Graphing
*Fractions
*Probability
*Find the Missing Number
*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).
Halloween Word Scramble Game
Pass the Pumpkin Game
Trick or Treat Game
Jelly Bean Relay Game
Halloween Word Search
Halloween Colouring 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 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 is a packet of 20 creative thinking Winter writing activities. These language rich creative thinking winter activities are perfect for early finishers, gifted and talented learners or a great addition to your sub folder!
Included in this Winter Activities packet you will find:
Frosty! Noooo!- Frosty the Snowman is alive and well...for now. Name 10 things he absolutely cannot do
Winter Shape Poem
Winter 24/7- It is always winter where you live now. List three ways your life would be different and three consequences of each difference
The Snow Shovel- List 3 problems with a snow shovel and two fixes
Not-So-Prime Realty- the Abominable Snowman is selling his cave. Help him write a realty listing
The New Hot Chocolate Mug- redesign the plain old hot chocolate mug.
Winter Words- think of a word for each letter of the alphabet that has to do with winter
The Unexpected Snowstorm- You visit southern Florida where there has never been any recorded snowfall. Suddenly you get a snowstorm. How can you still enjoy your trip?
Winter Picture- tell how a given picture has to do with winter
The Future of Winter- If the temperatures of the world continue to rise, winter in the future will be different than it is today. Tell how it is different in the future
What Else Can I Do with THIS?- You no longer need your car window ice scraper and brush combo. Name other ways that you could use it
Too Cold for…Anything- There is a new law in town. No one can go outside for anything in winter. Come up with five reasons that this could possibly be a good thing.
The Snowman and the Spoon- How is a snowman like a spoon?
Ooooh! Ooooh! I know! Winter!- The answer is Winter. You think of the questions
Save the Polar Bears- The polar bears need some TLC right now. How can people be encouraged to help the polar bears? Think of 8 ways
Winter Inventions- Given a list of 3 needed inventions, choose one and...Invent It!
The Last Penguin- You have been asked to guard the last remaining penguin, but you have been given some pretty weird materials to do the job. Explain how you would use these materials to save the last penguin.
The Snowman that Won’t Melt- You find an intact snowman in May. How is this possible?
Crossword Puzzle Writer- You write the weekly crossword puzzle for the paper. Given the words, you write the clues
Winter Film Director- You have been asked to direct a winter film. Using the given materials, create a scene, photograph it and tell about it in writing.
This adorable Fall ABC book template is the perfect thing for a fall writing centre! Provide students with a variety of texts, writing materials and blank books. Students will write a word or phrase that relates to the fall season on every page. They will then illustrate their books.
This book is great for beginning and experienced writers alike!
Forces and Interaction Reading and Science Unit
This is a Force and Interaction Reading and Science Unit. It is full aligned to 3rd grade NGSS about Force and Interaction. This unit is also aligned to 3rd grade Reading for Information standards. This Force and Integration Reading and Science unit is also included in my Force and Interaction Unit Plan! This Integrated Unit plan also includes one month of writing plans.
This unit is a total of 175 pages.
This Force and Interaction Reading and Science Unit Includes:
*1 full month of Day to Day detailed plans for Reading and Science
Reading:
*Original Close Reading Folder design with photographs
*Close Reading instructions for a variety of Force and Interaction texts
*Interactive Notebook Pages
*Foldable Templates
*Informational Text Task Cards
*Anchor Charts
Science:
*Hands On Experiments-balanced and unbalanced forces, magnetism and static electricity. These experiments are designed to use items you probably already have in your classroom or at home
*Anchor Charts
*Assessments
*Student Led problem solving and experiment design
*Data Collection and Evaluation
*Cooperative Learning
NGSS:
3-PS2-1
3-PS2-2
3-PS2-3
3-PS2-4
CCSS ELA Standards:
RI.3.1
RI.3.2
RI.3.3
RI.3.4
RI.3.5
RI.3.6
RI.3.7
RI.3.8
RI.3.9
RI.3.10
Looking for Fall themed centres to go with your fall unit? Included in this packet are 18 Writing, Math and Science themed centres. These Fall Centres are differentiated to accommodate all levels of learners in your classroom!
These fall-themed activities are designed to stand on their own or be used collectively as fall centres. These autumn centres are aligned to the Common Core Language Arts standards as well as Science Standards.
Fall activities Include:
Fall Into Reading centre- fiction and non-fiction reading response sheets
It's Fall About Writing centre- Students will create a fall ABC book or a Fall Fact Book
Fall Word Work centre- Fall Word Sorts for primary and intermediate and a Say, Write, Spell of fall words
Fall Craft centre- Students will create a paper bag scarecrow
Fall Listening Centres
Fall Science and Observation centre-A cut and paste leaf diagram or a draw-your-own diagram of selected fall objects. Also includes a Summer vs. Fall comparison page
Fall Math centre- Students will estimate and compare the weights of pumpkins and number of pumpkin seeds
Fall Computer Centre- Students will type and decorate a list of fall words
Fall Picture Sort centre- Students will cut and paste summer and fall pictures into appropriate categories
Each fall activity includes a materials list, teacher directions and all the student pintables you need for the fall centres. Student sheets are created in black and white for easy printing and photo copying.
Halloween Party Pack
These Halloween Activities and Party games will have your students saying “Best Halloween Party Ever!!!”
These Halloween Activities and Party Games are designed to be fun and used during class parties. These Halloween Activities and Party Games are not meant to be learning centres.
The Halloween Activities and Party Games Party Pack Includes:
Halloween Letter home to parents requesting volunteers and snacks (peanut free) - Be sure you have enough food and volunteers to run these Halloween Activities!
Halloween Activities offer a selection that are great for whole class, small group or individuals:
Two Halloween Word Scramble Games- Unscramble these Halloween Words in these Halloween Activities
Halloween Word Search
Halloween Colouring Pages
Pass the Pumpkin Game
Trick or Treat Game
Jelly Bean Relay Game
No Hands Pass the Mini Pumpkin
Hide the Pumpkin Halloween Game
I Want My Mummy!
&MORE!
I hope that you and your class enjoy this selection of Halloween Activities and Party Games!
If you like these Halloween Activities and Party Games, check out my additional Halloween products available in my store!
This Spring Word Work is perfect for a spring themed center! These pages include a word sort for both primary and intermediate. There is also three pages of Say, Write, Spell, a re-usable activity that will have students using their spelling skills to spell new words!
These Fall Reading Response Sheets are perfect for independent work or centers. There are a variety of response sheets that can be used with fiction or non-fiction.
These Fall Reading Response Sheets Include:
*Suggested Fall Book List
*Fall Non-Fiction Reading Response Sheet- What I Know About Fall, What I Learned About Fall and Questions I Still Have About Fall
*Fall Non-Fiction Reading Response-Draw a picture and write about what you learned from your fall book
*Fall Fiction Reading Response Sheets- Identify Characters, Setting, Problem/Solution, Summary
*Fall Fiction Reading Response Sheets- Draw a picture and write about your favorite part of the story
These Spring Reading Response sheets are perfect for a spring reading or listening to reading center. There are a variety of sheets for both fiction and non-fiction texts.
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 series of Life as a Slave Stations are designed to humanize the people who were slaves as much as possible. Students often learn about the Civil War and the existence of slavery, but not about the daily life of the people who were slaves. The six stations are designed to help bridge the gap.
The six stations focus on:
1. A picture book station
2. Listening to Songs of Slavery
3. Examining the Food and Clothes of Slaves
4. Studying Photographs of Slavery
5. Learning about life on a plantation
6. The Problems of Freedom
These stations use primary and secondary source materials and are appropriate for students as young as 5th grade. Students will spend time examining the materials at each station and then as a group, write a response to a focus question. All needed materials are included, but you may need to log on to a few websites before beginning.
The needs of ESL (English as a Second Language) students have also been addressed. Accommodations Include:
Word Banks
Group Work/discussion
Multiple Intelligences
Scaffolding of Recording Sheets
WIDA Standards in Student Friendly language
Rubrics