Cross Curricular

Back in November of this past year I had to complete a cross curricular project for all  of my courses for fall semester. I chose to do my cross curricular project on Vincent Van Gogh. I wanted to focus on a topic that the children might not know much about so I could really teach them something the day the children came to do our lessons. My cross curricular project contained social studies, math, social-emotional, and literacy lessons.

For my social studies lesson I took major events in Vincent Van Gogh's life and created a timeline that the children had to put in the right order. I made the timeline out of a giant paint stirrer and velcroed each event so the children could move them around in the right order.

For my math lesson, I had different pie charts of some of Van Gogh's most famous paintings. The students would roll the dice and use the corresponding numbered pie chart to answer questions about that particular painting.

For my literacy lesson, I chose digraphs that were popular throughout the story that my project focused on and had the students do a digraph sort on canvases to go along with my theme.

KSRA, Keystone State Reading Assocation

As an officer on the board of the Keystone State Reading Association for Shippensburg University, it has been so exciting to pick topics to discuss at meetings this semester. I'm also so grateful to have had the opportunity to work alongside such amazing people on the board of officers! Together we came up with a few topics that we thought were important and interesting for our members. The following are the topics we focused on this semester, just click on them to take you to the Powerpoint slide show that goes along with it!

Incorporating Music and Technology in the Classroom


The Daily 5

After the discussion and Powerpoint for the Daily 5 our members created the following craft to remember each step of the Daily 5 we discussed at the meeting!

PECT and PAPA Prep


First Year Helpful Hints (Thanks to Debbie Urso)
This meeting we had a guest speaker come join us, Debbie Urso. She is a reading specialist who came to talk to us about helpful hints for our first year of teaching. The Powerpoint was created by her!


The Best Children's Books of the Year as Great Mentor Texts (Thanks to Susan Berrier)

Myself along with the fellow officers on KSRA made special snacks for our last meeting and to celebrate Susan coming to speak with us! Of course our snacks had to go along with some amazing children's books!


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