Sharing My Love for Teaching and Creating
Math games and math puzzles are great ways for students to work on second grade math concepts through hands-on activities, specifically, through my favorite, PUZZLES. In this post, you’ll find examples of 2nd grade math puzzles that incorporate spiral math review of all 2nd grade common core math skills, along with social studies and science […] Read more…
I’ve been trying to write this blog post for like 413,483 hours. Having two kids sometimes feels like the equivalent of 17 toddlers jacked up on sugar. Isn’t it funny how running and managing a classroom of 24 third graders is TEN times easier than trying to manage a 2 and 3 year old that […] Read more…
When January comes around, I’m always looking for engaging Martin Luther King, Jr. activities! I love teaching in January and February because it’s such an important time to teach our students about so many African Americans who endured hardships and fought for what is RIGHT for so many years. So..I kick off January with engaging math […] Read more…
December is one of my absolute favorite months to teach because I love teaching my students about different holidays around the world. There are so many great resources online for teaching the different holidays around the world! I usually begin teaching this unit the day we get back from Thanksgiving break. We talk about and […] Read more…
PIN this post to SAVE it! I love running math centers in my classroom and I’m always looking for simple, low-prep activities to throw in a math center to make math workshop run FLAWLESSLY! {Well maybe not FLAWLESSLY because #REALLIFE and because we teach little people who aren’t perfect—but pretty darn close!} I’m super OCD and […] Read more…
Helloooo and HOLYYYY MOLYYYY because it’s been a CRAZY long time since I’ve blogged! I’m talking a couple of years. Kind of embarrassed to admit it ha! BUT I did have two children in the process so I’m using that as my excuse! Here’s a picture of them <3 <3 <3 Aren’t they so stinkin’ […] Read more…
Hey Everybody! I seriously cannot believe it’s ALREADY November!!! It’s crazy to me that I’ve already started planning for Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. This year sure is going by fast! Well, every year I look for new activities to do with my 2nd graders for Veterans Day. Of course, it’d be easy for me to […] Read more…
Happy Sunday! I just realized I needed a last minute math activity for the Tuesday before Thanksgiving break! I quickly created this Turkey Skip Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s activity. If there are any 1st or 2nd grade teachers out there still looking for a last minute math activity, here you go! Download this […] Read more…
Just wanted to write a quick post on how I do take home reading each week. Each one of my kiddos has a large ziploc bag where they keep their books for home reading. I put two books (on their reading level) in their bag on Monday and they have those two books for the […] Read more…
Sorry I know that I’m breaking the blog rule of only one post a day but I wanted to share with you my Journey’s Work onWriting Journal Prompts. I blogged about this a couple of weeks ago and posted journal prompts from Unit 1 of Journeys. You can read that here. I’ve added a couple […] Read more…