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Meg Cooksey

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United States - South Carolina - Boiling Springs
Meg Cooksey
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"It took me a long time to learn that teachers have too much to do to remake the wheel! Let's use our strengths to work together to make all of our lives easier!".
 
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By Meg Cooksey
My American Flag-Independent Craft and Writing (Great for Presidents' Day!) To prepare for independent activity: Make a copy of the flag for each student. Each student will also need four 4.5in x .5in red strips and three 9.5in x .5in red
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Writing, Presidents' Day
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Printables, Literature Circles
$2.00
39
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By Meg Cooksey
Pumpkin Rhymes Write-the-Room An Independent Literacy Center Print pumpkin rhyme cards on cardstock, laminate and cut apart. Tape the cards up around the room where children can read them. Print a record sheet for each student. Students search the
Subjects:
Reading, Autumn, Halloween
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Centers
$3.50
58
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By Meg Cooksey
Gingerbread Write-the-Room CVC Median Vowel Sounds Independent Literacy Center Print gingerbread picture cards on cardstock, cut out and laminate. Post them around the room where students can find them. Print a record sheet for each student or
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Thematic Unit Plans, Centers
$3.00
32
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By Meg Cooksey
Gingerbread Teen Number Identification Game Independent Math Center Print 3 copies of the candy cards on cardstock, cut out and laminate. (The candy cards contain a card for each number 10-20.) Print one of each of the colored gingerbread houses
Subjects:
Math, Numbers, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Games, Centers
$3.50
31
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By Meg Cooksey
Spin, Graph & Tally Money Print spinner on card stock and laminate. Choose the recording sheet your prefer and print one recording sheet for each child. Use a brad (paper fastener) and a paper clip to make the spinner. Children take turns
Subjects:
Math
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschool
Types:
Printables, Games, Centers
$3.00
16
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By Meg Cooksey
Print all cards on cardstock, laminate and cut apart. Mix and deal all cards to students in small group. Place out counters such as teddy bear counters, if needed. The student with the card that has a star in the corner goes first. He reads the card
Subjects:
Math, Arithmetic
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Games, Centers
$2.50
10
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By Meg Cooksey
St. Patrick's Day Contraction Match Print all cards on cardstock, laminate and cut apart. Print response pages. If using color, print on cardstock and place in page protectors to be used with dry erase markers. Black and white can be printed for
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Grammar, St. Patrick's Day
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
Types:
Activities, Printables, Centers
$3.50
9
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By Meg Cooksey
An individual student Winter book to go along with The Biggest, Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler. Children must sound out and write words, sequence objects by size, and create their own snowman by choosing from a variety of attributes. Covers a
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Math, Literature
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Centers
$3.50
12
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By Meg Cooksey
Word Family Mailbox Sort Literacy Activity Glue mailboxes on to front of a paper lunch bag turned horizontally so that the opening is facing the door of the mailbox. Lay the envelopes facedown on the table. Students take turns drawing an
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Spelling, Reading Strategies
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Centers
$3.00
17
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By Meg Cooksey
Gingerbread House Graph Tally and Analyze Writing Independent Center Gingerbread House Graphing and Tallying Print gingerbread house pictures on cardstock and place in page protectors. Print a graphing and/or tallying sheet for each student or
Subjects:
Math, Graphing, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, Homeschool
Types:
Thematic Unit Plans, Centers
$4.00
12
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By Meg Cooksey
Farm Fun: Write-the-Room An Independent Literacy Center with Differentiated Options Students search the room for cards. Students who are still working on letter sounds use the first record sheet and record the beginning sound for each picture in the
Subjects:
Spelling, Writing, Autumn
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Thematic Unit Plans, Centers
$3.00
15
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By Meg Cooksey
I Like Apples: An Individual Student-Made Book Literacy Center This is an individual student-made book that helps students practice writing and reading the sight words “I”, “like”, and color words. It can be used as whole group or independent
Subjects:
Reading, Writing, Autumn
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Centers
$1.50
6
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By Meg Cooksey
Farm Fun: Marvelous Mud - Expository writing activity & fun snack experience! For this activity, we first make instant chocolate pudding. The children watch and assist in the process. Then they create the cute pig books to record the experience
Subjects:
Writing-Expository, Writing, Autumn
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
Types:
Centers
$3.50
11
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By Meg Cooksey
In this independent mitten/winter themed math center, students search the room for mittens and record the numeral to match the number of snowflakes on each mitten onto the corresponding record sheet. Skill: Matching number to set. Could
Subjects:
Math, Winter
Grades:
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Centers
$2.50
5
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By Meg Cooksey
Students choose one of 20 cards and clip a clothespin on the letter that represents the ending sound of the picture. Can be made self-correcting. If they are correct, when they turn the card over, the clothespin will be clipped with the
Subjects:
English Language Arts
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Games, Centers
$2.50
15
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By Meg Cooksey
Presidents' Day Onset/Rime Literacy Center/Activity Students use vis-à-vis markers to write the missing onset on the heart. Then they change the onset and use the rime to write new words on the list. For accountability, the students must read the
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Spelling, Presidents' Day
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Printables, Centers
$3.00
9
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By Meg Cooksey
Students match pictures on polar bears to their rhyming partner in an iceberg. Can be played as a memory match game or as a self-correcting center. For concentration game, sort cards into two groups (bears and ice.) Place cards face down keeping
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Games, Centers
$2.50
11
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By Meg Cooksey
A winter independent literacy center activity: Students sort colorful snowmen with pictures and words into groups according to number of syllables. Then students record their sorting on a record sheet for accountability. Can be self-correcting. Meg
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Winter
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Games, Centers
$2.50
11
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By Meg Cooksey
Presidents' Day Writing Activities Activities included are: George Washington Circle Map Abraham Lincoln Circle Map Venn Diagram Comparing Washington and Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Written Response Page George Washington Written Response Page "If I was
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Writing, Presidents' Day
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Printables
$2.50
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By Meg Cooksey
I will deal out the cards to students in my small group and they will take turns stretching out one of the pictures on their cards and determining whether that house goes in the 2, 3, 4, or 5 sounds house. Can be used as an independent or teacher
Subjects:
English Language Arts
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st
Types:
Activities, Centers
$2.00
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2 years = first grade 11 years=5K

MY TEACHING STYLE

ECLECTIC :)...whole group, small group, literacy centers, math centers, balanced literacy, differentiated instruction, developmentally appropriate practices...don't we all use a little bit of everything to make our own style?!?!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Board Certified

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Undergrad-Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education '99 Master's- Early Childhood '07

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

wife, mommy, teacher...struggling to find a balance :)