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...

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...

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...

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...

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...