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.
Columbus Day Freebie!
When I was little we would get Columbus Day off of school and that was always a big treat. It usually fell right on or really close to my birthday. My mom would make it a special day for me. Our state no longer recognizes Columbus Day as a school holiday, which...
Peek-A-Boo Layered Books
I am so excited to introduce my newest creations... I call them Peek-A-Boo Layer Books and they are such show stoppers!! Here is how they work: Each page combines together to create a scene that peeks through the front cover. Negative space is removed to achieve...
A Bundle of Sticks- Classbuilding
So my year is off and running and my class did our first close reading activity with Aesop's fable "A Bundle of Sticks." I thought it was a great little story to introduce fables (2.RL.2) and also to bring in a little character education at the beginning of...
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