Welcome! I’m Teach-A-Roo!
I help primary teachers like you marry standards with engaging, rigorous, and fun learning experiences for all learners. I have been teaching and mentoring in a Title I, K-8 setting for almost 30 years. I am a literacy and STEAM enthusiast and try to bring art, music, storytelling, and science together in meaningful, standards-based lessons in my real-life first grade classroom.
Stone Soup!
This was a really fun week for me at school. My class did a little ELA unit using the story Stone Soup. I used the Reading A-Z version for the students, and then read aloud the classic Marcia Brown version. We compared and contrasted the folktales with an anchor...
Clip Charts and PBIS Behavior Management
Are you using clip charts or thinking about starting to implement a clip chart into your behavior management system? Let me tell you why what I do is different, even PBIS friendly! I love my clip chart system. I use it in a POSITIVE way. The language is explicit and...
The “May” Basket- A Classroom Management Idea
I'm super excited to team up with 150 bloggers for another month of bright ideas! My bright idea is a super quick classroom management idea about how to handle the "stuff" kiddos bring to school. I have a basket in my classroom called the "May" basket. Mine is just...
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