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.  

 

Keeping Your Students Organized During Writer’s Workshop

Keeping Your Students Organized During Writer’s Workshop

Managing Writer's Workshop can be a challenging task. Over the years, these have saved my sanity and kept my kiddos' writing on the "right" track.  These are multiple folders bound together to help keep students organized through the steps of the writing process. I...

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The Gingerbread Man: LOOSE in the SCHOOL!!!

The Gingerbread Man: LOOSE in the SCHOOL!!!

 OH NO!  The Gingerbread Man is LOOSE IN THE SCHOOL!!! Not, really, he is just looking for the kids that made him. The Gingerbread Man - Loose in the School by Laura Murray is a terrific book for the beginning of the year, or anytime you want to add a little gingery...

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Unique (and inexpensive) Birthday Gifts for Students

Unique (and inexpensive) Birthday Gifts for Students

Want to give your students a birthday gift they'll use and remember? Check this out! You might recall last winter when I was so excited about my Send Home Science Kits. They have become one of my favorite things to give to students, and EVERY TIME... the kids go nuts...

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SEND HOME SCIENCE KITS

We have Send Home Science Kits for holidays and every day! Check them out here!

Science activities for Earth day

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