Help kids visualize how some words can be spelled the same, but mean two completely different things with these handy, free printable Homograph Puzzles!
This lesson will teach your how to find the slope of a line using the 3-step "rise over run" method. The guide including several finding slope examples and free slope practice worksheet!
Hi Friends…. The past two weeks we have been working on Prefixes and Suffixes in our second-grade classroom! My kiddos were having such a good time brainstorming words with prefixes and then figuring out the meaning. They really had a strong grasp of the concept… I was pretty impressed. After our whole … Prefixes, Suffixes and a FREEBIE Just for YOU! Read More »
Captivating chapter book read alouds will keep your students excited and interested in reading! Here are my top 20 picks for 2nd grade.
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Teaching theme and summarizing can be challenging, but with my tips, guides, and resources to help with your methodology, you can be successful!
Learn about the civil war for kids with this free printable activity learning about famous people in the civil war making this flipbook.
Cute coin money games is a great way for teaching money to kindergarten - including different coins with piggy bank activity for kids!
Hands-on spring digraph activities with free printable phonics puzzles to make learning fun. Include ch, ph, sh, th, and wh words.
Games make learning fun, so print out and play Superhero Memory to learn contractions. Who knew grammar could be so exciting?
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Is your child an unmotivated reader? Does your child read just what is required of them? Are you hoping to inspire your child to read more? While my second grader does as he is asked and likes
Make learning about homophones fun with printable Homophones Games! This hands-on Easter literacy activity is better than Easter worksheets! Grade 1-3
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Looking for a 2nd grade ELA interactive notebook? The simplified layouts of these second grade language arts interactive notebook pages make them easy-to-use! Each interactive notebook activity is a single printable page. Plus, simple shapes with only a handful of pieces per activity mean fewer lost pieces and just 15-20 minutes needed to complete each page! One printable interactive notebook page for each of the following skills is included: Nouns Verbs Complete Sentences Proper Nouns Singular and Plural Nouns Irregular Plural Nouns Singular Possessive Nouns Plural Possessive Nouns Declarative Sentences Imperative Sentences Interrogative Sentences Exclamatory Sentences Adjectives Compound Words Antonyms Synonyms Shades of Meaning Verb Tenses Irregular Past Tense Verbs Abbreviations Contractions Homophones Multiple Meaning Words Compound Sentences Collective Nouns Fact and Opinion Cause and Effect Pronouns Possessive Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns Adverbs A complete table of contents with the ELA skill, standard covered, and page number you can find it on is included within the first few pages of the resource. How can I use interactive notebooks in my second grade classroom? There are many ways to use interactive notebooks to support learning. In my own classroom, I introduce an ELA skill at the beginning of the week. We then discuss it together as a whole class and create an anchor chart with definitions and examples. Students then complete the interactive notebook page as an independent literacy center. I check over this work and meet with students who have demonstrated misconceptions or made errors. Another option is to complete the pages together when the skill is first introduced. Either way, students’ notebooks become a great reference tool they take ownership of and go back to throughout the year. Whenever we are reviewing a skill in my classroom, you are sure to see notebooks out on desks or center tables. As an added bonus, regular cutting and pasting strengthen fine motor skills! Please note that these pages are intended for use in a standard size single subject notebook (8 1/2 x 11 sized pages). Most will be a bit too large to fit in a composition-size notebook without adjustments to your printer settings. Teachers Like You Said... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisfied "This resource is so thorough and goes along well with my weekly focus topics. It is a fun and hands on way to reinforce what we are learning in class, and students always have access to it to reference when they need to during independent work times. Thank you!" - Kelsie W., Second Grade Teacher ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisfied "My students loved using this resource! It was easy to put together and they loved the interactive component. I used it during an observation and it was well enjoyed by all. Thank you!" - Chloe C., Second Grade Teacher Related Products ☆ Second Grade Math Interactive Notebook ☆ Second Grade Spelling Lists ☆ 2nd Grade ELA Centers ☆ Cut and Paste Word Sort Bundle ☆ Cut and Pastes for the Language Arts Common Core ☆ Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension Skills 2nd Grade & 3rd Grade If you enjoy this product, please consider following my store. I post new products and freebies regularly! You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected]. Thank you, Amanda Taylor @ Second Grade Smiles
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Whether you’re looking specifically for math games or just want a fun way for students to practice math facts, the ideas on this page will help you incorporate a math partner game time into even the most limited class schedule. You’ll see how to store and organize the games and introduce them to your class. … Continued
How to help parents teach math at home with their child. How can parents help with math at home? These five tips can help parents teach their children math skills. Be positive about learning, ask questions about math topics, watch math videos, practice key math skills, and play games with your child! It's simple to get started. Help your child learn and do math at home with these tips.
We have been brushing up on our quotation skills the last couple of weeks. It is such a hard skill for students to grasp in first grade, but once they reach second grade it's like something "clicks" and they can pick it up quickly. (So don't stress yourselves out first grade teachers!) Here is our quotation mark anchor chart... we used quotes from our Magic Tree House read aloud that we have been reading. During stations, we used play-dough to create quotation marks on our sentence cards. Then we recorded the sentences correctly on the recording sheet. I always include these with my stations so I can check for understanding when I am not able to roam the room while students are working. Later in the week, students roamed the room to rewrite sentences correctly including the quotation marks. You can also use this activity for scoot or stations. We also added quotation marks into sentences, rewrote sentences with quotation marks, and created our own sentences with quotation marks. You can grab up the activities in this packet by clicking the image below... Here is a quotation mark freebie to get you started! Click on the image below to download.
Learn about the effect ice and salt have on temperature with this easy science experiment for kids! Uses siimple household supplies!
Read a few ideas for civics and government activities. There are free lessons and activities as well as other fun hands-on, engaging ideas.
Fact fluency is a big part of math in first grade. You may be thinking, "How in the world am I going to teach these kiddos ALL these facts w...
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Well, did you survive?! I gotta tell you I am so glad it's Friday!! This has been one busy week and this lady needs a break! Here are a few pics (well quite a few pics) of our activities from this week. Halloween Morning Graphing M&M's I got this cute freebie from Jennifer over at Rowdy In First Grade. Graphing Our Costumes We had a "Warrior" category and changed it to "Action" Made some contraction spiders and ended Halloween day with lots of sugary treats. Today is Day of The Dead so we spent the day learning all about it. Day of the Dead El Dia de Los Muertos (Rookie Read-About Holidays) I also used this great unit from Rachel Lamb Our art teacher came in and taught my kids how to draw sugar skulls. She had a Draw Along and it was so fun and easy. She is a wonderful artist! She discussed symmetry and talked about giving their artwork depth. The kids did a wonderful job! I loved her lesson and I made my own too. Now do you see why I am exhausted? But wait! I am killing two birds with one stone before I crash out. This is a pretty Yummy pin of mine :) Sweet Dreams
Woah! The last few weeks have been crazy! I am very excited to be back to blogging because I've got some goodies to share and because it is so much easier to do on my fancy new laptop! (May my old one rest in peace:). A few weeks ago, I feared that with the loss of my laptop, I may have also lost my Frog and Toad unit that I'd been working so hard on for our Arnold Lobel week. Luckily, I was able to scrape together some bits and pieces of my unit to do with my kiddos before our Spring Break, and even more luckily, my unit was recovered along with several other important files from my old computer!! Yay! Anyways, we had a lot of fun reading all of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad stories, and my kids did really well with all of the activities. I am so proud of the wonderful readers and thinkers they have become! It is hard to believe that it is the end of March already! Here are a couple of pics of our favorite activities. The first is of our Snip, Flip, and Fold 3-D Graphic Organizer. I let the kids choose any Frog and Toad story (of course, most picked The Kite, which is in our Treasures Basal), and they simply had to write and draw to tell what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. They liked this activity because of the flippy aspect of the pages, and I liked it because it turned out way better than when I used to have students fold and cut the pages on their own. Amen for dotted cutting lines and handwriting lines! If you'd like to try this Snip, Flip, and Fold activity with your class, it can easily be used with any book that has a beginning, middle, and end format...You are welcome to download it for FREE from my TPT store. Just click here and then click, Download Preview. This next picture is of my personal favorite Pinterest-inspired activity! I think they turned out sooo cute! I let the students pick their favorite character to describe using at least one adjective. They wrote things like, "Frog is excited to play outside with Toad" and "Toad is forgetful because he lost his button." Haha! Okay, now the good stuff! I am so excited to have reached 100 followers--101 to be exact! I appreciate all of your kind words and the fact that you take the time to read my sometimes long, rambling posts! In honor of this milestone, I will randomly select THREE lucky followers to win any one item from My Teachers Pay Teachers Store. You will get to choose from my new Fun with Frog and Toad Unit (which includes the patterns to make the cuties above and other goodies!), My Green Eggs and Contractions Unit, Writing Using Thinking Maps: A Year of Circle Maps and Tree Maps, and more! The Fine Print:) You have three chances to win! To enter, post a comment after doing each of the following items: 1. Follow my blog. 2. Follow my TPT store. 3. Blog about my giveaway. Thanks for reading and good luck! The giveaway will end Friday, March 30th at 9:00pm.
2nd grade spelling words can help your children learn to love language and reading. In order to understand what we read, we have to read fast enough. According to the experts, 2nd graders should start the year reading at 50 wpm and end the year at 90 wpm. And, by learning at least 20 new […]
I love using graphic organizers to help my students learn about plurals. There are so many rules for them to remember. Graphic organizers really help my students see the pattern on how to ma…
Bring the engaging lessons of space exploration and understanding into your second grade classroom. These space activities and ideas are sure to keep your second graders engaged and learning
