Students explore action words (verbs) as climbing vines that bring life to naming seeds. Through garden-themed exercises, they identify physical actions and match them with naming words.
A playful, multi-day grammar adventure designed specifically for early learners aged 5-6. Young 'gardeners' learn to plant, grow, and nurture basic sentences by mastering uppercase letters, naming words, action words, and punctuation seeds.
Students discover sentence-ending punctuation as 'stop seeds' and capital letters as 'tall trees.' They learn how to start and stop sentences to keep their garden neat and tidy.
Vibrant, garden-themed 4-slide deck for ages 5-6 explaining capitalization (tall trees) and punctuation (stop seeds). Features simple interactive examples and large text size.
A dual-module news broadcast unit where students learn speaking, scriptwriting, and filming skills. Module 1 masters core phonics standards (vowel teams and past-tense ed pronunciation), while Module 2 develops essential Social-Emotional Learning skills including reading the room and identifying emotional Zones of Regulation.
Students discover naming words (nouns) for people, places, and things. Using a playful garden theme, they learn to classify these seeds as the essential building blocks for growing sentences.
A comprehensive teacher guide for Lesson 3 (Punctuation Seeds). Includes instructions on teaching capitalization as 'tall trees' and punctuation as 'stop seeds', lesson scripts, and differentiation tips.
A math place value unit focusing on identifying digit values through the thousands place with interactive detective-themed worksheets and puzzles.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
A 3-lesson phonics sequence focused on teaching Vowel-Consonant-e (V-e) syllables to late first and second graders. Using a whimsical 'Word Wizards' theme, it covers foundations, vowel expansion, and blends/digraphs, complete with guides, slides, practice pages, and assessments.
