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Can you believe the end of the year is already upon us? I can barely believe it myself! I wanted to share a fun and engaging idea as an alternative to Summer Review packets. I promise your students (And you!) will love making these a summer review bucket! I started using this idea a few years ago when I was… Read More
For the past few weeks, we’ve been knee-deep in fractions. Now, in second grade fractions are “easy” you spend like a week on them and boom you move onto time. Third grade…? Yeah… not so much… we’re officially on our 4th week of fractions… yeah… Who knew there was soooo much you needed to know about fractions?! LOL! 😉 … Read More
You guys! Where did February go? I’m not gonna lie, it felt like the longest month in history, but here we are, already into March! #poof! Well, while the rest of the education world was pummeled by snow days, ice storms, and wind advisories, the Applicious classroom was busy here in Central Florida. Our focus last week? Dental Health! Here’s a… Read More
The addition and subtraction heavy hitting are FINALLY over and we’re able to move on to more “fun” concepts like measurement and arrays. It’s like when winter finally gives way to spring. (Or at least I think… here in Fl we don’t really have a “Spring” season.) Linear measurement is one of my favorite second-grade concepts and I look forward to… Read More
Now, don’t be jealous, but I am one of those lucky teachers that gets to teach for two days this week! 😉 Oh, and did I mention one of those is an early release day? So, today we were BUSY! BUSY! BUSY! Downtime is a dangerous thing in crazy times like these. To help keep us engaged, I reworked a… Read More
School’s been out for a little less then a week… Now that I’ve slept for about five days straight, I’m energized enough to share our last few weeks of activities with you! In math, our focus was on one of my favorite math concepts from third grade: Arrays! Not just arrays, but using arrays to show repeated addition and later multiplication…. Read More
