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2nd grade is such a fun grade to teach reading! Most of your students are no longer still “learning how to read” and they are ready to make the transition to “reading to learn!”. With that comes the want and need to explore longer and more meaningful titles! Students at this age are so excited about expanding their vocabularies and… Read More
How do you celebrate birthdays in your classroom? For me, in years past, parents would send in cupcakes, we’d sing happy birthday and that would be that. Kids were happily sugared up on blue and red tinted frosting and our classroom life went on. But, then there were the kids who’s parents did send in cupcakes for birthdays because they… Read More
I have a confession… maybe it’s one that you share too… Or maybe it’s not… but either way, I must confess… I RARELY teach social studies! Now honestly, I LOVE Social Studies. But in reality, teaching it to a class of second graders was challenging. Maybe it was the next to nothing for material. Or the completely outdated resources we… Read More
It’s that time of year where everything is up… the sun, the temp, your kid’s activity levels… What’s a teacher to do? Make S’mores, that’s what! I love pulling out this fun s’mores science experiment at this point in the year. It’s a great experiment to help students learn more about the sun’s energy, or about heat transfer! Pulling in… Read More
So there’s this notion floating around about assessment in the classroom. At some point in our educational journey, assessments became evil. A thing to pin teachers against teachers, administration against their staff, and districts against their schools. Although I can see why some assessments are placed in the same category as four letter words (Ah-Ham- Looking at you PARCC and… Read More
St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and although in 2nd grade the leprechaun did still come to visit us, we didn’t really do a whole lot in the ways of celebrating… Some years the we’d have Leprechaun shakes and other times the kids would complete leprechaun traps. Either way… we’d always read a fun leprechaun book and write… Read More
