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Combine a fine motor skills lesson, creativity, art with a gorgeous Ice Cream craft!Your youngest learners can gain fun practice in pencil control (tracing simple pattern lines), coloring and cutting big clear simple shapes (triangle and circles) by
Subjects:
Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Summer
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Printables
FREE
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Help your students correct b and d letter reversals by teaching them the bed analogy. Use our printables to visually support your mini lesson.This printable includes:reference poster - color and blacklinebed poster - laminate and write onone page
Subjects:
Spelling, Handwriting, Phonics
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Printables, Posters
FREE
117
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Christmas Subtraction - Santa's Sleigh Drop - Math ActivitySanta has loaded his sleigh! Once he is flying, he has trouble keeping all the gifts on-board! Oh dear! He is dropping his gifts out of his sleigh. Help Santa determine how many gifts he
Subjects:
Math, Basic Operations, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Games, Centers
FREE
451
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By From the Pond
Easily make a fun and engaging winter addition game with our super cute Snowman Makes Ten - Math Center Game for Early NumberThis printable card game ideal for a small group of students in a math rotation or center.Snowman Makes Ten helps teach
Subjects:
Math, Basic Operations, Winter
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Games, Centers
FREE
322
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Make kindergarten math centers fun and engaging with hands-on games and activities. This set of cards is versatile and will help children recognise and match dot patterns, numerals and number words for numbers 0-10.The instruction sheet for this
Subjects:
Math, Numbers
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, Homeschool
Types:
Printables, Games, Centers
FREE
453
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Teach the letter sound p with our fun and engaging alphabet activities! I have combined fun fresh original illustrations with solid traditional teaching ideas to give you a great start!This letter packet includes:Motivational anchor chart featuring
Subjects:
Reading, Handwriting, Phonics
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Printables
CCSS:
RF.K.1d
FREE
218
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cvc Word Family Week of Writing {Freebie} Make learning word families fun, engaging and low prep with our 'week of writing' mini work booklets. This booklet is for the at word family. Find the Word Family Week of Writing Mega Bundle HERE This
Subjects:
Balanced Literacy, Spelling, Phonics
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Workbooks, Activities, Printables
FREE
420
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One More One Less is a skill that is essential to learn before moving on to more complex addition and subtraction. Students need to know these instantly and playing with these facts in a game makes the practice so much more fun!Students will love
Subjects:
Math, Numbers, Mental Math
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Printables, Games
FREE
286
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Writing Book - A Week of Writing {I go to school}This resource will help you sequence a whole week of writing for your early writing lessons. Print the pages and make each of your students their own mini writing book for the week. This book has a
Subjects:
Reading, Writing, Back to School
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Workbooks, Activities, Printables
FREE
319
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Your students will love handwriting and learning about letter formation with these fun write'n'wipe activity cards!Simply print and laminate the cards and provide them to your students with a dry erase marker. The sky/grass/dirt and flower
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Writing, Phonics
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Printables, Centers
CCSS:
RF.K.1d
FREE
207
Digital Download PDF (2.86 MB)
By From the Pond
Bear's Bingo - Numbers to 20. This printable game is for numbers 10-20.It will assist your students with numeral identification, ten frames and number words.It includes 6 different game boards and 3 sets of 'caller cards' - one set of numerals, -
Subjects:
Math, Numbers, Back to School
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Games, Centers
FREE
95
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Talk about kindness in the classroom and create a beautiful classroom display with our Bee Kind craft topper! Celebrate your students' writing by displaying the bees on on a bulletin board or string line across the classroom.We have provided a
Subjects:
Creative Writing, Writing
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Printables
FREE
42
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Make a cute shape fox craft to make math fun, engaging and hands-on! Students will color, cut, manipulate, rotate and layer paper 2D shapes to create their picture.Labelling titles and recording sheets are provided so that you can display your
Subjects:
Geometry, Visual Arts, Autumn
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
Types:
Activities, Printables
FREE
35
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School Clip Art FREEBIE - Graphics From the Pond They CANNOT be shared or distributed as image/clipart files for any reason. You can create a teaching document file with them where the images are embedded and credit is included within the
Subjects:
Products For TpT Sellers
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Types:
Clip Art, By TpT Sellers for TpT Sellers
FREE
200
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By From the Pond
Scarecrow One Page Craft {Print and Go Craft + Writing Papers}A 'one page craft' is easy to prep, engaging and simple for your students and allows you to easily modify your lessons! You will simply copy one page per student to complete the scarecrow
Subjects:
Visual Arts, Writing, Autumn
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Printables
FREE
74
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By From the Pond
This fun math center activity is simple to prep and loads of fun for students to use in math centers, rotations and workshops to learn about the concept of addition using the 'near doubles' strategy. Students will use known double facts (e.g. 2+2)
Subjects:
Math, Basic Operations
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Games, Centers
FREE
74
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By From the Pond
Let's Pop some words with this Sight Words Digital Slide Warm Up! A quick reading focus each morning of high frequency word can support your beginning and emerging learners. Ask students to watch as you click through the slides. They can repeat each
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Interactive Whiteboard
FREE
69
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Use these fun apple activity mats for counting and math activities - use them with playdough, dry erase markers or math equipment. Students roll play dough ball apples (up to 10) to put on the ground under the apple tree. They can say the simple
Subjects:
Holidays/Seasonal, Autumn
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Activities, Printables, Centers
FREE
41
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By From the Pond
Integrate learning about triangles in math with craft and creativity using our cute dog shape craft!Students will manipulate rotate and layer paper shapes to create their picture.Labelling titles and recording sheets are provided so that you can
Subjects:
Geometry, Visual Arts, Winter
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
Types:
Activities, Printables
CCSS:
K.G.A.2, 1.G.A.1, 1.G.A.2
FREE
49
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By From the Pond
Santa Koala One Page Craft {Print and Go Craft + Writing Papers}A 'one page craft' is easy to prep, engaging and simple for your students and allows you to easily modify your lessons! You will simply copy one page per student to complete the koala
Subjects:
Visual Arts, Writing, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Printables
FREE
65
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I started self publishing digital resources for education and early-learning in 2005 after graduating as a primary school teacher in 2001.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My resources aim to encourage a calm, happy classroom of engaged learners. Carefully designed resources can help promote a happy classroom, engaged learners and an excited teacher!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I graduated university with first class honours.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I earned the Outstanding Entrants scholarship to study at The University of Newcastle. I chose to study Education and have a double degree - Bachelor of Teaching/Bachelor of Social Science - specializing in Early Childhood Education.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I absolutely adore designing high quality printable teaching resources that are engaging for students and make you excited to teach!