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Habitat Flipbooks (7 World Habitats)

By The Teaching Reef

Inside this habitat unit you and your students will find materials for 7 different habitats. I have made materials for you to create flipbooks for each habitat. The habitats that are covered in this unit

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Science, Environment, Informational Text

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

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Multiplication City: Practice with Arrays

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You doesn't love a real world connection in math? Well Multiplication City is just that! This lessons requires your students to apply the knowledge they have learned about multiplication and arrays in a creative way real world connection. I have

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Basic Operations, Critical Thinking

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The Daily 5 Classroom Pack

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This resource is HUGE!! It is the largest freebie that I offer. I hope you enjoy this resource and find its contents useful. Please Come visit my blog at theteachingreef.blogspot.com. Also, check out these links to my units, my Daily Centers

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading Strategies

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

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Acrostic Name Bookmarks {Celebrating Everything You Are}

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As part of the beginning of the year actives I do with my students I love to make acrostic bookmarks with their names. The reason that I use their names is because I adore the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. Since this book helps teach us that

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Creative Writing, Basic Reading, Poetry

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Around and Around It Goes! {A life Cycle Unit}

By The Teaching Reef

In this unit you will find materials for five different life cycles. The life cycles that are covered in this unit are ant, butterfly, chicken, frog and mealworm. There are a few different materials that you will find at your fingertips to help

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Creative Writing, Reading, General Science

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A Case File Full Of Suspense {A Mystery Genre Unit}

By The Teaching Reef

I just love mysteries, don’t you? To be honest I just love the mystery unit that Beth Newingham uses in her classroom and has graciously shared with us. It is full of inspiration or at least I thought so. This unit has all things mystery but with

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Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

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

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I Need My Monster {A Creative Writing Unit}

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Scary stories always seem to grab the attention of the reader… okay so maybe you are plugging your ears or covering your eyes but you still can’t resist the story. I have found this to be so true with my students as well. For my students, the idea

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Creative Writing, Literature, Writing

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

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Daily Centers Expectations Pack

By The Teaching Reef

The following ideas were created to help manage and maintain your daily centers routine. After reflecting on the flow of centers in my classroom, I realized that I was in need of some materials to help kick off the centers without any trouble.

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Reading, Classroom Management, Basic Reading

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

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Weather In A Cup - Water Cycle

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If you want a quick, easy, but fun and visual investigation to do with your students on the Water Cycle, then this is it! This activity was inspired from Pinterest. I have modified it so that It will show the 3 steps in the water cycle;

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Earth Sciences

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

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Lesson

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Daily Centers Classroom Pack {A Work on Writing Supplement}

By The Teaching Reef

This pack of supplemental materials was created to provide teachers with additional resources for keeping students interested in working on writing. This pack was made to easily flow into any type of classroom style as well as provide more choice

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

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

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Activities, Printables, Posters

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Schema Booklets {A place to file everything you know and learn}

By The Teaching Reef

These booklets are used to help your students activate, store and recycle all the information that they have as well as learn from your lessons. I have provided 3 topic ready booklets for you to use. The topics are spiders, sharks, and turtles

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Basic Reading, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

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

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Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

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Amazing Alliteration Activities

By The Teaching Reef

Writing with alliteration can be a fun exercise to learn about rhythm and sound within words. In this Alliteration unit your students will be participating in two different writing activities. 1.First up is A superhero inspired alliteration book.

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Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing

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

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Worksheets, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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Daily Centers Classroom Pack {7 Classroom Centers}

By The Teaching Reef

The following classroom pack was created to assist you with seven different daily centers. These materials have expectation webs that can be filled out with your students and then displayed at each center. They should go over expectations that have

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Reading, Basic Reading, Writing

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

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Printables, Graphic Organizers, Centers

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Maps From Around the World {The 7 Continents}

By The Teaching Reef

This product is simple maps of the seven continents. Each map has the name of the continent, the names of the countries and a compass to show which hemisphere it is located in. The way that I used these maps was to label the oceans as well as to

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World History, Geography

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

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Handouts, Printables, Cultural Activities

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A Love Bot! {A Robot Valentine's Day Craft}

By The Teaching Reef

This Valentine’s Day craft is meant for your students to create as a bag decoration to put all their valentines inside. I copied the templates onto colored paper for my example however; you could have your students color each piece if you wish or

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Creative Writing, Holidays/Seasonal, Valentine's Day

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

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Activities, Printables

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Daily Centers Classroom Pack {A Responding to Reading Supplement}

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For this independent reading center I wanted to take the responsibility as well as the creativity of the students to a more challenging level. Especially with the new common core standards in effect throughout most schools in America, I wanted a way

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading

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

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Reading Strategy Cards and Tools {A Comprehension Focus}

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This unit was created to assist you in teaching your students comprehension strategies. As I read and learned more about the CAFÉ, I realized I needed to create materials to make the implementation easier. So here in one resource are materials to

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Reading, Reading Strategies

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

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Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas, Graphic Organizers

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Classroom Economy Wallet and Cash

By The Teaching Reef

In this freebie I have included money that can be used for a classroom economy or as positive rewards. To make this all seem real for your students I have included 4 different wallet templates that you can use in your classroom. Your students will

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Basic Operations, Life Skills, Classroom Management

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

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A Working with Words Game {Boggle/Scrabble Theme}

By The Teaching Reef

This unit is a game that students can play to reinforce word work skills. There are 16 different Boggle boards that are numbered and have matching answer cards. These answer cards take all the thinking out of the assessment because they have

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Reading, Spelling, Basic Operations

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Activities, Centers

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When Pigs Fly: An ABC Book of Idioms

By The Teaching Reef

This classroom activity will have your students smiling from ear to ear. They will be creating a classroom ABC book of idioms. If you have never tried to teach your students idioms, this is a fun way to get your kids to go bananas for idioms. I have

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Creative Writing, Vocabulary, Writing

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

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Unit Plans, Activities

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106

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I am about to go into my 7th year of teaching. Ahhh! How time flies! I have taught second grade for five years and I am currently in my second year of teaching third grade. I live in the state of Florida, where I teach at a Title 1 school. I love to create lessons, anchor charts, activities, basically anything and everything for the classroom. =) I truly love what I do and wouldn't dream of doing anything else.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe that every child learns differently and some prefer one style of leaning while other children use multiple learning styles as a way to process as well as understand information. I try to address multiple ways for students to learn though the lessons I create.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Well, I hope to one day be honored for my love of teaching but for now I am just honored to be doing what I love.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a bachelors degree in Elementary Education from the University of South Florida.

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Teachers have the best job in the world!

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Earth Sciences, Environment, Social Studies, World History, World Languages, Spanish, ESL-EFL-ELL, Health, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Character Education, Study Skills, General Science, Library Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Mental Math, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Informational Text, Test Preparation, Phonics, Classroom Community