Year: 2014

December 14, 2014

Happy Sunday! I’m so glad that this is the last Sunday that I will have the Sunday blues for a few weeks.  It’s been a rough few weeks at my school. It is hard to imagine a tragedy happening to your own school. For a few days, it just felt like a bad dream. Thank…

November 30, 2014

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. One of the reasons is because of all the fabulous children’s books that are about Christmas. I love sharing these books with my kiddos and I have a big collection of them to share. With my schedule this year, my time to share books I love is…

November 9, 2014

I’m back with my visual plans for the week. I had to take a little break because I have been having some health issues. I have had major shoulder pain since the end of June and nothing that I’ve done (therapy, rest, ice, cortisone shot) would help. A few weeks ago, I started having pain…

October 21, 2014

I’m a little late sharing my plans but better late than never, right?? My plans have a bunch of freebies linked for you. All you need to do is download the file to get the link. I would love a comment too! We are reading pumpkin books this week for fiction skills and also for…

October 19, 2014

Fall is my favorite time of year. I love all the fun themes that can be taught during this time of year.  On Friday, my grade will be taking a trip to a pumpkin patch and I am so excited. So this week will be focused on pumpkins. Our main comprehension skill is cause and…

October 14, 2014

Main idea is such a tough skill for second graders. It seems like I can never teach it enough for my students to understand it. I’ve been trying to hit main idea in as many ways as I can and throw in a bit of science or social studies too. Science and social studies have…

October 13, 2014

This is a short school week for me because of fall break. It never fails that I end up sick on fall break. Ugh! Oh well, at least I have time to recover.  Because this is a short week, we do not have a reading story to do so we are going to be studying…

September 28, 2014

Hi everyone! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Monday is getting here way too fast. I don’t know about y’all but I’m exhausted from the past few weeks. We have a short fall break coming up in 2 weeks and I can’t wait. That’s pretty much all that’s motivating me right now. I’m here to…