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Create a Learning Environment That is Engaging, Fun, and Challenging With These Teaching Resources!
Welcome to Unique Teaching Resources!
Every child is unique, and as teachers it is our job to educate each of our students to reach his or her full potential.
In order to achieve this challenging task, we must engage our students in the learning process. We must provide them with high interest learning activities and a stimulating learning environment. Above all, I believe that learning should be fun and challenging.
The teaching resources on this site are the result of twenty one years of teaching children around the world. I began my teaching career when I was 21 in Guam, and since that time I have taught in Florida, Virginia, Hawaii, China, Indonesia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
I began to create my own worksheets for units of study on my beloved old typewriter, as computers were not something that you would find in someone's house at that time, and certainly not in the classroom! I purchased my first computer during my third year of teaching, and I thought that being able to save a file and edit it before printing it out was the best invention I had ever seen! Well, I was hooked, and over the years I have been developing my own teaching resources to supplement the curriculums that I have taught.
All of the resources that you will find on this site were developed by me for my students. They have been tried, tested,and refined over the years as I have used them year after year. I have been encouraged by many of my colleagues to publish my teaching resources and make them available on the Internet. As a result, I am combining my computer skills and teaching experience to create this website.
I am a Canadian born, American educated teacher who has taught overseas in a variety of international schools. I am currently teaching Grade 4 at a British International School in Bahrain. Since there are some differences in spelling and grammar between these two versions of English, I have provided two copies of my resources for you to choose from: a standard American English version and a second version labeled UK version. If there are no differences in spelling and grammar in a resource, there is only one version available.
I hope that you have a fun and successful school year! Heidi McDonald
In this picture, I am in the middle and dressed up as Roald Dahl on our Roald Dahl Day celebration. My students are dressed as an Oompa-Loompa and Mike Teevee from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Please bookmark and return to Unique Teaching Resources often, as I will be continuously adding new teaching resources to my website.
If you have any ideas for teaching resources that you would like to see included on my website, please use my contact page to let me know your ideas and suggestions.
Thank you for visiting my website. Please be sure to check out all the pages on my website for a large variety of teaching resources that will engage your students in learning and save you valuable time.
Sincerely, Heidi McDonald
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Unique Teaching Resources
Teachers Have Class is a monthly newsletter from Unique Teaching Resources. Each newsletter will contain useful teaching tips and strategies, as well as teaching resources and ideas related to themes that will occur during that month.
As a bonus to the subscribers of my newsletter, there will be access to free downloads for that particular month's theme (Ex: pumpkin calendar numbers, stationary, and worksheets for October) included in each newsletter.
These special free resources are only available to subscribers of Teachers Have Class. The links to the free downloads will be made available for the first 5 days after you receive your monthly newletter. After that time, I will close access to those links and post those resources for sale on my website.
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On this page you will find photographs of some of my teaching resources that are available on this site. I have provided free teaching resources on each of the pages in my website so that you can sample a product from each resource page.
Above is a picture of my students in front of their cheeseburger book reports. It is hard to get students excited about completing writing assignments about a book that they have just finished reading. With the book report projects that I have created, I have found that my students are excited and look forward to each new project that I assign to them.
Above is a picture of my classroom that shows my movie camera projects on one bulletin board and birthday cake projects on the second bulletin board.
Above are my sequencing school bus book reports. This entire book report set is a free sample for you to download as an example of the style and quality of my book reports.
Above are my computer book reports and compact disc reports.
Above is an example of my Dive Into The Parts of Speech Bulletin Boardgrammar display. This set comes with different fish styles for nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. This set also comes with blank fish for you to use as accent pieces on your bulletin board and a five page title banner.
This is an example of a creative writing activity. Our Halloween Stories comes with an idea web, rough draft page, grading rubric, and final draft templates in color and black and white. A five page display banner is also included with this creative writing activity.
Above is a Genre Reading Pizza. Students cut this pizza into 8 slices and glue one slice at time onto their plain pizza as they read each genre.
Above is my Puppy Reading Chartsticker charts. There are six different colored dog charts in this set and two black and white templates. There is a five page title banner for you to use when you display these charts on your bulletin board.
Above are my Student ImprovementAward Certificates. In addition, I have many award certificates for various subject areas and school related matters.
Reading Sight Words: Free Flash Cards and Word Lists Reading sight words is one of the basic building blocks of learning how to read. Here you will find free flash cards and word lists for the Dolch Words and Fry Words.
List of Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books Do you want to encourage your students to read award winning literature? Here is a list of Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winning Books.
Incentive and Sticker Charts Reward your students for their hard work and progress with these uniquely shaped and colorful incentive and sticker charts.
Awards and Certificates for Students Here you will find awards and certificates to give out to your students for reading, spelling, improvement, attendance, math, and so much more!
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About Me: Heidi McDonald A description about myself, my 22 years of teaching experiences around the world, and how I turned my "lemons into lemonade."
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Above is a picture of my students in front of their cheeseburger book 
