UPDATE: The winner of the Fractions for Fourth Graders Pack is Cherie!  An e-mail is coming your way : ) I was in the mood to make some charts last week.  I don't know why, and it doesn't happen very often but I made three different charts and that is a lot for me! Usually I stick to the whiteboard and erase my masterpieces after we talk about them : )  Since I did promise some pictures here are the charts I created and used last week.  Oh and I ran out of white paper...so I had to go with manila.  First we jumped head first into our editing unit this week.  I use the Lucy Calkin's Units of Writing loosely and this chart is modeled from her lesson.  We will work on editing for the next 2-3 weeks. We had to review formal vs. informal writing since my kiddos thought informal writing meant to write mean things about the other person.  Even though this was clearly not what we learned earlier, but anyway we needed some review so, we used this little sort that I thre...
UPDATE:  I've had a lot of questions about how I assembled these projects.  So, here's how I did it, in case you were curious. : ) My kids wrote their imaginary writing piece and I glued it to the bottom of large construction paper.  I explained the concept to my kids and took their picture. I explained that they may want to act like they want out of the snow globe or like they are enjoying the snow. They cut themselves out after I printed the pictures on photo paper. Then I traced a faint circle in pencil that the was same size at the clear, plastic bowls that I bought for the project.  I modeled how to draw a snowy scene. They glued themselves into the circle and drew a wintery scene inside the circle I drew around their picture. I laminated the paper after they drew the scene and glued themselves into the circle.  Next, I put a handful of epsom salt in the middle of the circle.  Then, I drew a medium-sized line of hot glue all the way around the edge of the plastic bowl and...
I posted a new FREE geometry game called What's My Shape? from my Geometry pack.  You can click on the image below to download it for FREE from TPT!   It's played like the popular Headbandz game except with 2-D shapes. I was experimenting with how to make my headbands out of sentence strips and thought you may want some pictures so here is my sweet model showing off the super easy headband set up! All I used was a laminated sentence strip and two paper clips. They are so excited to play this next week! This game is also available in my Geometry pack!  This pack is aligned to the 2nd grade CCSS and has 10 games/centers to practice the 2nd grade Geometry standards. You can check it out on TPT by clicking on one of the pictures below! ...
Happy New Year friends!  My winter break went by wayyyy too fast which is probably how most of you feel as well.  Today was our first day back and boy was it a quiet one.  My kiddos were all half asleep.  I would ask them a question and all I'd get was crickets.  I probably shouldn't be complaining because I'm sure they'll be wide awake tomorrow!  To get back into the swing of things, we will move into Geometry in math next week.  Specifically we will work on identifying and describing 2D Shapes (and cubes) as well as partitioning.  I put together a set of 10 math games, centers and activities to help us practice the 2nd grade grade Geometry standards.  You can check it out below by clicking on one of the pictures below! I am particularly excited about a game I made in this packet that is played like the VERY popular Headbandz.  Anyone else play that during recess/fun friday??  My kids will tackle each other to play it, So, I suddenly had an idea to make a Hea...