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Veteran's Day & Memorial Day Activities

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**TOP 50 Bestseller!** This product has gotten a fresh new look. If you have already purchased this pack, go to your "Purchases" section and download it again. =)This pack has been updated to include a mini unit on Memorial Day as well as Veteran's

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

$6.00

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Birthday Graph Fun!

By RaraDT

Decorate your classroom with this adorable product, or turn a staple bulletin board into a math lesson! Loaded with different sizes and printing options, this birthday graph set is a "must-have" for your back-to-school needs!Included in this

Subjects:

Graphing, For All Subject Areas, Back to School

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

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Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

$4.50

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Nonfiction Close Reading {Common Core Aligned Reading Response Sheets}

By RaraDT

**This product has received a fresh new look! If you're looking for additional resources to enhance your nonfiction instruction, this loaded bundle is the perfect addition for you! Your students can use these reading response sheets to organize all

Subjects:

Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

$8.00

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Accountable Talk Comprehension Sticks

By RaraDT

The Common Core State Standards call for our students to read closely to complex text. Close reading has been found to be a key component for making gains in reading. These comprehension sticks are a simple way to hold your students accountable and

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables, Literature Circles

$4.50

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Birthday Graph Fun! {Spanish Version}

By RaraDT

Subjects:

Graphing, Spanish, Back to School

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

$4.50

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Santa Craft FREEBIE!

By RaraDT

Happy Holidays! Enjoy making this cute Santa with your kiddies. Hope Santa is good to you all! *Follow me or visit my TPT store for future products and updates!

Subjects:

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

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

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Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

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Writing Workshop Compliment Page FREEBIE!

By RaraDT

Celebrate the end of a writing workshop unit of study with this adorable compliment page. Your students will surely enjoy all the wonderful things their classmates have to say about their stories! This is a hit with my 2nd graders! For updates and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables

FREE

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Reading Workshop Activity Set

By RaraDT

Get your students to show their thinking while reading! Use these great worksheets to promote higher order thinking skills in your kiddies. This pack includes: Book Bonanza Reading Celebration Directions & Photos Book Bonanza Survey Page Book

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

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Activities, Printables

$3.50

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$Nightly Math Practice Tracking Pages For a Whole Year!$

Nightly Math Practice Tracking Pages For a Whole Year!

By RaraDT

Hold your students accountable for their nightly math fact practice at home by using these record sheets to keep track of their minutes.In this pack you will find...*August - June Nightly Math Tracker (30 minutes of reading per night)*August - June

Subjects:

Math, Basic Operations, Mental Math

Grades:

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

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Activities, Homework, Printables

$5.50

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've been teaching for 15 years altogether. In September, I will start my 11th year in 1st grade! I've taught 2nd grade for a total of 7 years and first grade for 2 years. In my early teaching career I taught Spanish to K-8 students.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Elementary Education. I also have a Masters Degree in Reading and Literacy. This program also focused on action research and brain-based teaching strategies,

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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, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Applied Math, Basic Operations, Fractions, Graphing, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Earth Sciences, Social Studies, U.S. History, World Languages, Spanish, Health, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Character Education, Word Problems, Writing, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Classroom Community