Last week we focused on one of my very favorite skills to teach: inferring! Although this skill is not explicitly in the common core standards for 2nd grade, it is part of CAFE. Also, RL2.1 and RI2.1 both say “Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.”.…
Wow! A mid-week post! That’s something special (at least recently). I’m just popping over to show you a cute freebie I used in my class today. We were reviewing compound words, and while I was looking over my plans this morning, I realized that I forgot to create the activity I needed. Luckily, TPT to the rescue! I grabbed…
This post will be short and sweet. You know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words? I feel like this one is worth about 2000. I’m happy to announce that THIS is what I’m thankful for this year (and also the reason I’ve been slacking a little bit on my blogging). 🙂 Our little Paradise will have…
Hi Everyone! I have to be honest. I started this post on Sunday, and am JUST finishing it up now… oops! Anyway, I have some great stuff to share from my second grade classroom. My kiddos have been hard at work and of course we had some Halloween fun. 🙂 First, check out these adorable glyphs we made to go…
This week my super second graders were hard at work developing their multiplication skills. We were working on repeated addition and arrays. We use EnVision math at my school which is a great program, but I wanted to spend more than one day focusing on arrays since they’ll be using them from now until 5th grade. This week in reading,…