Hi, I'm Kathy Moorehead. Welcome to my digital teaching portfolio. This site was designed to house my blog, my store, my best teaching tips and content, and the work from my Masters in Education and my Gifted and Talented Education credential.
I was born in Menlo Park, CA and went to high school at Notre Dame in Belmont. Then I got my undergraduate in English and American History at the University of California in Santa Barbara. After that, I worked as a corporate paralegal at Ware and Freidenrich in Palo Alto while I raised my first child, Matthew, with my husband Mike Moorehead. In 1989, My husband's job as an electrical engineer at Hewlett Packard moved us up to Sonoma County where I had my second child, Michelle, and also where I got my single subject in English and my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential at Sonoma State University. After subbing for many years while raising my children, I went back to work at first part-time and then full time in Sonoma and then Napa County. I have been teaching full-time for eight years now and have been teaching using the project-based learning method since 2009. I went back to school in 2009 to get my GATE credential from San Bernardino State University, and then again in 2013 to get my Masters of Education in Technology and Innovative Learning from Touro University, CA.
Currently, I am a kindergarten teacher working in the Napa Valley at a small K-8 school, Howell Mountain Elementary School. I have taught almost all the grades now: TK, K, 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8. I also teach an after school class which began as a film class but has now morphed to include stop motion, animation, and web 2.0 presentation tools of all kinds. We love to green screen and make iMovies and create digital portfolios to house our creations.
We introduced iPads to our kindergarten room in 2012, and we have used them daily as an integral part of our literacy centers program and also at math time to differentiate instruction and extend our learning. I'm a big believer in working with math manipulatives in lower and even upper elementary to help build solid foundations in all of the math strands, so our tables and floors are usually strewn with blocks, links, cubes, Cuisenaire rods, clocks, bears, foam shapes, shape templates, and too much more to mention! I believe that a child's work is to play, and we are doing the hard work each day to build those core educational concepts as we play. We also work each day to build the social emotional development of each child that is so critical to their success as a student and in life. The afternoon is all hands-on with PBL activities in our science and social studies units. It is a fun day here in the kindergarten room, and I feel blessed to have such an important place in the educational life of each child. Each one of them has a special place in my heart.
I was born in Menlo Park, CA and went to high school at Notre Dame in Belmont. Then I got my undergraduate in English and American History at the University of California in Santa Barbara. After that, I worked as a corporate paralegal at Ware and Freidenrich in Palo Alto while I raised my first child, Matthew, with my husband Mike Moorehead. In 1989, My husband's job as an electrical engineer at Hewlett Packard moved us up to Sonoma County where I had my second child, Michelle, and also where I got my single subject in English and my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential at Sonoma State University. After subbing for many years while raising my children, I went back to work at first part-time and then full time in Sonoma and then Napa County. I have been teaching full-time for eight years now and have been teaching using the project-based learning method since 2009. I went back to school in 2009 to get my GATE credential from San Bernardino State University, and then again in 2013 to get my Masters of Education in Technology and Innovative Learning from Touro University, CA.
Currently, I am a kindergarten teacher working in the Napa Valley at a small K-8 school, Howell Mountain Elementary School. I have taught almost all the grades now: TK, K, 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8. I also teach an after school class which began as a film class but has now morphed to include stop motion, animation, and web 2.0 presentation tools of all kinds. We love to green screen and make iMovies and create digital portfolios to house our creations.
We introduced iPads to our kindergarten room in 2012, and we have used them daily as an integral part of our literacy centers program and also at math time to differentiate instruction and extend our learning. I'm a big believer in working with math manipulatives in lower and even upper elementary to help build solid foundations in all of the math strands, so our tables and floors are usually strewn with blocks, links, cubes, Cuisenaire rods, clocks, bears, foam shapes, shape templates, and too much more to mention! I believe that a child's work is to play, and we are doing the hard work each day to build those core educational concepts as we play. We also work each day to build the social emotional development of each child that is so critical to their success as a student and in life. The afternoon is all hands-on with PBL activities in our science and social studies units. It is a fun day here in the kindergarten room, and I feel blessed to have such an important place in the educational life of each child. Each one of them has a special place in my heart.