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Coin Values & Counting Mini Book and Worksheet: Hairy Money Method

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The "hairy money" method helps students learn to identify coin values and count coins by 5's, with each "hair" representing 5 cents. Another teacher introduced me to this method, and it really helped my struggling students learn to count coins!

Subjects:

Measurement

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

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End of Year Parent Survey

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Good teachers are always looking for opportunities to reflect and improve, and parent feedback is a huge help! I send these home during the last couple of weeks of the school year, and they help me get a feel for what things I might want to keep or

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Professional Development, End of Year

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Assessment, Printables, For Parents

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It's the Law! 2nd Grade Social Studies Government Unit

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It's the Law! 2nd Grade Social Studies Government Unit This 5-day unit plan includes: -Day by day lesson plans for the teacher -Non-fiction/expository reading comprehension page on how bills become laws (answers require student to find and

Subjects:

Civics, Government, Other (Social Studies - History)

Grades:

2^nd

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Unit Plans, Activities, Printables

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Poetry Unit: Alliteration, Repetition, and Rhyme (Common Core RL 2.4)

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Poetry Unit: Alliteration, Repetition, and Rhyme (Common Core RL 2.4) This unit allows the teacher to choose any poetry or rhyming picture books to complete the activities, but does include suggestions for texts to use with each of the 3 skills in

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Reading, Phonics

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2^nd

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Unit Plans, Activities, Printables

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Fossil Dig with Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This is an engaging, simple activity to introduce a unit on dinosaurs/fossils. Given a chocolate chip cookie on a paper plate, students use a toothpick to carefully extract the "fossils" (chocolate chips) and set them aside. After they record

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Career and Technical Education

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Activities, Printables

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"My Report Card" Student Self-Evaluation for Parent Conferences (K-3)

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"My Report Card" Student Self-Evaluation At report card time and/or before Parent-Teacher Conferences, students can complete this as a self-evaluation and reflection on the year so far. This is an easy way for the teacher to gain feedback on what

Subjects:

Classroom Management, For All Subjects

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Assessment, Printables

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Expository Writing Outline/Graphic Organizer

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These graphic organizers have space for a topic sentence, "star ideas," supporting details/evidence, and a conclusion sentence. Included are two versions of the outline: one with room for two "star ideas" and one with room for three. These work

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers

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Teacher Report Card: fun student feedback survey!

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I give this out to my students at report card time, and they love getting to grade ME! This simple form has helped me to learn so much about my students: who's being teased or bullied, what worries them, classroom activities they love and hate,

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Classroom Management, Professional Development

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

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Wow Writing! 12 Paragraph Outlines for Beginning Writers (Common Core aligned)

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Wow Writing! outlines guide students to plan the "perfect paragraph" on 12 different topics, using a simple outline format compatible with the Step Up to Writing program. I use these as weekly homework on Wednesdays, but they could be used as a

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Homework, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.1.1, W.1.2, W.2.1, W.2.2, W.3.1, W.3.2

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Recess Scavenger Hunts for Bored or Lonely Kids

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Recess Scavenger Hunts for Bored or Lonely Kids are a great way to keep kids out of mischief and promote positive behaviors on the playground. This set includes 3 different scavenger hunts that encourage kids to interact with others, do good deeds,

Subjects:

School Counseling, Character Education, Problem Solving

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Printables

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Unit Planning Templates (for all subject areas): simple and easy!

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These templates help me plan units in every subject area. I have so many ideas scattered all over Pinterest, my computer, my file cabinet, etc. that I had a hard time remembering all the resources I want to include in my units...until I started

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Thematic Unit Plans, Printables

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Book BINGO Independent Reading, Enrichment, or Homework

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Book BINGO! A fun year-long activity that encourages students to read various types of texts: chapter books, picture books, magazines, fiction, non-fiction, etc. It also includes some squares for reading with others, visiting the library, and

Subjects:

Reading, Back to School

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Homework, Printables

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Parent Teacher Conference and End-of-Year Parent Surveys

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I send these parent surveys home twice a year: one before Parent-Teacher Conferences, to get an idea of what questions and concerns parents might have so far; and the other at the end of the year, which helps me reflect on things I might want to

Subjects:

Classroom Management, End of Year

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Printables

$2.00

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Thunder Cake Common Core Unit Plan: Activities, Writing Craftivity, & Assessment

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Thunder Cake Common Core Unit Plan: includes activities, graphic organizers, writing craftivity, and assessment! Houghton-Mifflin has some great stories, but their Practice Book pages leave a lot to be desired. The Common Core rigor and the

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Writing

Grades:

2^nd

Types:

Unit Plans, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

RL.2.1, RL.2.2, RL.2.3, RL.2.4, RL.2.5, RL.2.7, W.2.3, W.2.5, W.2.8

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Celebrations Holiday Unit: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, & Las Posadas

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Here is your ready-made "Christmas Around the World" type of unit, which can last about 10 days or be adapted to your own time frame! This 13-page packet includes a reading comprehension page for each of the following winter holidays: Christmas,

Subjects:

Reading, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Printables, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RI.2.1, RI.3.9, W.2.2, W.3.2

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Spelling Test Printable Template

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This is a 10-word spelling test form with space for two dictation sentences. Also included is space for quick teacher feedback at the bottom, where areas of difficulty can be checked off so parents can target these issues at home.

Subjects:

Spelling

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Assessment, Printables

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Tools for Life: Respect (PowerPoint and Printables)

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If your school has a character education or life skills curriculum, but not many resources for teaching those skills, this product is for you! These activities are also great for Back to School/beginning of the year, to help set behavior

Subjects:

Life Skills, Character Education, Back to School

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Printables

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Tools for Life: Honesty PowerPoint and Printables

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Subjects:

Life Skills, Classroom Management, Character Education

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

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Story Elements Graphic Organizer (Common Core aligned)

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This can be printed for individual student use, or made into poster-size and laminated so that it can be completed with dry-erase markers after whole-class read alouds. Along with characters, setting, beginning (problem), middle, and end

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers, Posters

CCSS:

RL.1.3, RL.1.4, RL.1.7, RL.2.3, RL.2.5, RL.3.3

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Keeping Earth Clean: Differentiated Common Core Unit for Grades 2-5

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Keeping Earth Clean Differentiated Common Core Unit for Grades 2-5 This unit addresses over 20 different Common Core informational reading and writing standards across grades 2-5, and can be differentiated by choosing from 3 different versions of

Subjects:

Reading, Environment, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Thematic Unit Plans, Printables

$3.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I started out teaching a 4/5 combination class, and then taught 5th grade for three more years. After I had my first daughter, I started sharing a contract, jumping around from 5th grade to 3rd, then kindergarten, then 2nd. After 8 years of being "half a teacher," I'm moving to 4th grade full-time and hoping to stay put for a while!

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English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Measurement, Science, Earth Sciences, Environment, Social Studies, Civics, Government, Arts & Music, Career and Technical Education, Other (Social Studies), Life Skills, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, School Counseling, Character Education, Problem Solving, Cooking, Writing, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Tools for Common Core, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, End of Year, Phonics