Month: June 2014

June 30, 2014

I’m linking up for my first Monday Made It of the summer. I have been taking it easy during June and not doing anything school related. I finally got into the mood last week and started doing a few things. If you checked out my blog yesterday, you saw that I have been experimenting with…

June 29, 2014

The past few days it has been raining on and off all day so I’ve been wasting time playing around on my computer. I created a new interactive game that I will use when I review short vowel sounds with my second graders.  So I thought I would share it with y’all. It runs in…

June 28, 2014

Congrats to Susan K. You are the winner of my Back 2 School math centers. If you didn’t win, I marked the centers down until Monday morning so you can get them for a discounted price.  In other news, I’ve added a new blog feature. You may have noticed it pop up while you were…

June 27, 2014

 I finished my newest pack of math centers this week. These 8 math centers are mostly review of first grade skills and can easily be implemented at the beginning of school. With this pack, students will practice their basic facts and place value. I hope you’ll check it out on TPT by clicking on the…

June 26, 2014

Homework, homework, homework. This can be so frustrating for any teacher. I have worked on my homework system for the last few years and I finally have a system that works for me. Each student in my class has a homework folder. This can be any kind of folder but I use the plastic folders…

June 24, 2014

  Today is all about grouping.  Group work is a huge part of my classroom and I’m going to share how I make it work for me. I have to admit that I always hated group work. I was always that person who did all the work and everyone else got credit for it. I…

June 19, 2014

Today’s post is all about Fact Fluency. It is so important for 2nd graders to really know their math facts without using their fingers or number lines. They just need to know them.  My grade level team has really made math facts an important part of our classrooms for the past 2 years. Since the…

June 17, 2014

I was racking my brain to come up with a word that started with E. Then, it came to me. If your district is like my district, evaluations have become a huge part of your school life. I am a lead teacher at my school. That means that I observe other teachers and evaluate their…