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Teaching Addition Strategies: A Free Guide

Teaching Addition Strategies: A Free Guide

I am so excited to share with you my very first FREE email series all about teaching addition strategies! Teaching Addition Strategies: Goodbye Standard Algorithm If you’re a 1st or 2nd grade teacher, you should definitely be saying SEE YA LATER to the standard algorithm. Listen, I’m not saying you can’t show it to your students. But I AM saying… Read More

Teaching Students How to Research

Teaching Students How to Research

Welcome to part two all about teaching students how to research! If you missed part one, I talked specifically about animal research reports. Today I want to share with you one of the ways I taught my 2nd grade students how to research. This method is great to use in any elementary classroom. Teaching Students How to Research with the… Read More

Animal Research Reports

Animal Research Reports

Teaching students about animal research reports is one of my favorite writing units! It’s the perfect combination of nonfiction reading and informational writing – all in one perfect unit of study! I’ve got so much to share with you that I’m splitting this into two posts! You can find part two here! Getting Started with Animal Research Reports To begin,… Read More

Cause and Effect Activities

Cause and Effect Activities

About a year ago, I had a teacher ask me if I had any resources with mysteries similar to my main idea mysteries. At the time I didn’t have any, but now I’m happy to say I’ve made a new mystery all about… Cause and effect! These cause and effect activities and mysteries are a hit! Cause and Effect Activities… Read More

Winter Math Activities & Centers

Winter Math Activities & Centers

It’s cold and snowy, so what’s a better way to warm up your classroom than snowy themed winter math activities! Winter Math Activities for Subtraction Today I wanted to quickly share with you a fun freebie for your math centers! I think it is absolutely ESSENTIAL that you differentiate your guided math block as much as possible. That’s why I… Read More

Free December Classroom Activities

Free December Classroom Activities

We all know how crazy the month of December can be, so I’ve collaborated with some amazing friends to put together a round up of FREE December classroom activities and resources to use with your first grade or second grade students! Take a Look at Your 12+ FREE December Activities These free print & go Christmas board games will help… Read More

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I'm SO excited to share with you my very first FREE email series to help you with teaching 2-3 digit addition strategies!

This series is for teachers who want to help their students develop a deeper mathematical understanding of addition strategies.

In this free email series we'll focus on:
1️⃣number talks
2️⃣writing effective mini-lessons
3️⃣recording student thinking

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Make planning your word work center a total breeze with these centers, puzzles, task cards, and activities for TONS of phonics skills! Plus, it's a great deal during Cyber Monday & Tuesday!
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  • Celebrate the 100th day of school with these math, reading, writing, and literacy activities for 1st grade and 2nd grade. These fun printables are the easiest, no prep pages to use for your one hundred days of school celebration! If you’re a teacher who wants ready to go activities, these were made for your first grade or second grade classroom! Plus, there are 100th day of school bookmarks, a crown, and art pages!
  • These beginning blends word work centers and activities are great for literacy centers in kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade classrooms. Students love the blends word sorts, puzzles, task cards, and spelling activities. They are great to use while teachers are meeting with small groups, and these phonics activities will keep your students having fun while working on phonemic awareness. Great for struggling readers and striving readers alike
  • Organization for your math rotations and reading rotations is easy with these student rotation charts. Plan the schedule for 3 groups (or more or less!) and edit the expectations, stations, and pictures for the kids to know where to go in the classroom. This will help your teaching and learning to go so smoothly. Edit the rotation schedule in powerpoint. Works great for kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade!
  • Teaching students how to research using animal research projects for kids in first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade classrooms. Your student writers will use the template, graphic organizers, outline, and example booklets to understand informative writing. They will learn to write animal paragraphs using research strategies. These ideas and teaching strategies are perfect for elementary research writing.
  • Land your ideal teaching job, whether it’s your first year and you have no experience or you just want to update your teaching portfolio, these editable teacher resumes are unique & stand out! The design of each resume template is simple & creative, and the design ideas included are the perfect way to showcase your skills. These editable resumes can work for elementary, middle, or high school teachers - even special area teachers or special education teachers. Show your profile & objectives!
  • Students can practice learning beginning digraphs with these phonemic awareness, phonics, word work literacy centers. Kids will use recording sheets where appropriate. They will complete digraph word sorts and spelling for ch, ph, sh, th, wh, and wr. These phonics activities are great for first grade small groups. Students will love the fun digraph activities they get to do!
  • Organization for your math rotations and reading rotations is easy with these student rotation charts. Plan the schedule for 3 groups (or more or less!) and edit the expectations, stations, and pictures for the kids to know where to go in the classroom. This will help your teaching and learning to go so smoothly. Edit the rotation schedule in powerpoint. Works great for kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade!
  • Teaching students how to research using animal research projects for kids in first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade classrooms. Your student writers will use the template, graphic organizers, outline, and example booklets to understand informative writing. They will learn to write animal paragraphs using research strategies. These ideas and teaching strategies are perfect for elementary research writing.
  • These 2nd grade math centers and stations include games & activities that align with Common Core standards for grade 2. They include second grade place value, measurement, word problems, addition & subtraction, & geometry activities for all 2nd grade standards: 2.OA.1, 2.OA.2, 2.OA.3, 2.OA.4, 2.NBT.1, 2.NBT.2, 2.NBT.3, 2.NBT.4, 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.6, 2.NBT.7, 2.NBT.8, 2.NBT.9, 2.MD.1, 2.MD.2, 2.MD.3, 2.MD.4, 2.MD.4, 2.MD.5, 2.MD.6, 2.MD.7, 2.MD.8, 2.MD.9, 2.MD.10, 2.G.1, 2.G.2, and 2.G.3.