Elisabeth Montgomery

Monsters Shopping: Making Change from Dollar and Counting Coins The monsters are shopping, so come along and practice counting coins and making change from a dollar. Students will read story problems involving making change from a dollar. They will match cards showing the change with a dollar sign, and also match a card showing coins totaling the correct amount of change. The student records these on the provided recording sheet. When finished, students can play concentration matching the coin

Do your students need practice combining sentences? These task cards can help! This set of 24 task cards focuses on combining simple subjects into compound subjects, and combining simple predicates into compound predicates. There are 24 cards with sentences that need to be changed from two sentences into one sentence. The sentences either have like subjects or predicates. The students will combine either the subjects or predicates using “and” to make one sentence. There is a recording sheet for

I made these friendly letter templates to use at the end of the school year. My students wrote letters to my next year's students. They wrote about the fun we had and what to expect in Second Grade. I will share them with my new students in the fall. They could be used at any time of the year, since the templates don't say end of year. Thank you for your interest in this product!

This is a mystery picture that is great for Halloween! In this activity, students first solve place value and addition problems. There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doubles, adding 10 (57 + 10). The first two versions use the 1-120 number chart. 3. The more challenging version uses a number chart ranging from 221-340.

Fall into Autumn with place value practice using this seasonal fun activity! Students first solve place value and addition problems. There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doubles, adding 10 (57 + 10). The first two versions use the 1-120 number chart. 3. The more challenging version uses a number chart ranging from 201-32

Fox and Squirreling around with Place Value. In this activity, students will put numbers in number order, squirrel numbers in one column and fox numbers in the other. The students will record their numbers on a recording sheet and add and subtract 10 from the squirrel column and 100 from the fox column. Each fox and squirrel number sheet has 2 sets of the same numbers. I added another set so you would have different numbers for another day.After recording information on sheet, students color o

Your students can smile along with Big Grinners as they practice interpreting pictographs and bar graphs with this set of 24 task cards. There are 12 different graphs: 4 pictographs, 4 vertical bar graphs, and 4 horizontal bar graphs, all using single unit scales. Each card has one of the graphs and a question. A recording sheet and answer key are provided. This set is also available in a bundle with a more challenging set of graph task cards in my store. Task cards are versatile and can be use

With this Spring and/or Easter activity, students will enjoy making a mystery picture while practicing addition and place value concepts. The picture for all versions is a cute white bunny with blue eyes and a pink nose. There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doubles, adding 10 (57 + 10). The first two versions use the 1-1

This is a fun Thanksgiving activity for place value practice! In this activity, students first solve place value and addition problems. There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doubles, adding 10 (57 + 10). The first two versions use the 1-120 number chart. 3. The more challenging version uses a number chart ranging from 3

With this April activity perfect for Spring, students first solve place value and addition problems. There are two versions included: an easier version where students generate solutions to color a number chart from 1 – 120, and a more challenging version where they solve problems with solutions from 201 – 320. They then color in these numbers on the appropriate chart to discover the mystery picture. Both versions have the same picture. The picture is the sun and rain showers helping new spring f

This is a mystery picture that is great any time of the year! In this activity, students first solve place value and addition problems. There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doubles, adding 10 (57 + 10). The first two versions use the 1-120 number chart. 3. The more challenging version uses a number chart ranging from 8

I have been using heart maps with my Second Graders for a few years now. I usually just draw the map with a sharpie and copy it, but this year I decided to do it on the computer. So I’m sharing it! This is a great beginning of the year activity to learn more about your students, and to generate ideas for writing.

Have some Holly Jolly place value practice with this seasonal fun activity! Students first solve place value and addition problems. There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doubles, adding 10 (57 + 10). The first two versions use the 1-120 number chart. 3. The more challenging version uses a number chart ranging from 651-770

Have some wintry place value practice with this fun activity! Students first solve place value and addition problems. There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doubles, adding 10 (57 + 10). The first two versions use the 1-120 number chart. 3. The more challenging version uses a number chart ranging from 501-620. It has probl

Gathering Together Collective Nouns Second Grade Common Core Standards specify that students will use collective nouns (e.g. group). CCSS ELA-Literacy.L.2.1a This product has many ways to help you teach collective nouns. There is a poster illustrating collective nouns. There is also a poster giving many examples of collective nouns. This product has several activities for your students to practice using collective nouns. In one activity, students match the collective nouns (on flower cards) to i

Holiday Hop! I hope that you and your students enjoy this freebie where students practice a variety of Second Grade math skills on this holiday hop around the room. This activity is designed to be used as a scoot activity where the cards are placed around the room, but you could also use it as a center activity. Thank you for downloading this freebie! Happy Holidays to all! Elisabeth Montgomery

With this St. Patrick's Day Activity, students first solve place value and addition problems. They then color in these numbers on a hundreds chart to discover the mystery picture. This mystery picture is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and a four leaf clover - how lucky! There are three versions: The easiest are problems in this format: __ tens __ ones (ex. 6 tens 7 ones = 67). The next version has some of the __ tens __ ones problems, as well as expanded notation (60 + 7), using doub

Your students will have Valentine's Day fun measuring pictures of Valentine's Day cards to the nearest centimeter.They'll continue the fun by making a line plot of their measurements then answer questions about the line plot they created. Also included is a teaching poster showing an example of a line plot that could be used at any time of the year. CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.A.1 Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and

This is a simple shape sort that your students can cut out and sort between shapes that are quadrilaterals and those that are not. They can glue on the same sheet of paper and also into a math journal. I hope you enjoy it!

I hope that your students enjoy making this mystery picture (two hearts - one purple, one red) while practicing addition and place value concepts. CCSS.MC2.NBTB.5 Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. 2.NBT.3 Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. 2.NBT.6 Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value