Month: January 2015

January 31, 2015

This past Monday was our 100th day of school. Like I told you before, I never have made this a big deal in 2nd grade but this year I decided to make it a fun day. I was really inspired by Cara Carroll’s ideas for the 100th day. For our 100th day, I did have…

January 24, 2015

Teaching money in 2nd grade is not my favorite thing to do. My students often don’t recognize the coins and we are supposed to teach them to count above a dollar in one to two weeks. Fairly impossible for some of them. So, I decided to implement a classroom economy this year to continue practicing…

January 18, 2015

I have a confession to make. I have barely taught any science or social studies this year. Since it is no longer part of our schedule at school, I told myself that I would still teach it during the day. Well, that really hasn’t happened and I’m kinda mad at myself about it. What kid…

January 11, 2015

Well, I’m back. I’m not sure how winter break went by so fast but the first week back to school kicked my butt. I spent the last week of vacation in Jacksonville watching my Tennessee Vols play in their bowl game. So fun but I was not ready to go back to school at all!…

January 1, 2015

Happy New Year! My friends from Owl-Ways Be Inspired are having a fun giveaway to celebrate 2015. We are all giving away something fun on our blogs and you can win the grand prize of a $100 gift card to Amazon. I am giving away 2 of my favorite new books.  These books are in …