Creating Classrooom Magic

These task cards have your students work on problem and solution. I made them to go with our unit in class as an extra resource. This is a tough concept for my kiddos to grasp. There are 11 cards and a recording sheet included

I am a 2nd grade teacher who also happens to have a deep love for Harry Potter. In my classroom I read the Harry Potter books for our 10 minute read aloud each day. My kids love it. I am also a teacher who is a huge advocate for having your students help create the classroom behavior plan. My kiddos help me come up with a Harry Potter themed behavior plan in our classroom and I decided to make it into something awesome! I began this incentive program right before Christmas break because t

I am a HUGE fan of Amelia Bedelia! She is so silly and so much fun! I chose to to use her to help me out of the first day of second grade. i will be reading the book in the beginning of the afternoon to my second graders. After reading I will pass out this packet and we will work on it together on the carpet while I use the easel. The packet included: Similarities vs. Differences Amelia's silly decisions Following Directions Rule maker Amelia's 2nd day Friendly Advice Character Traits Al

This is a 117 page set of activities geared toward Harry Potter. The activities are pulled from all books in the series. They were made to allow students to bring the books to life in a fun creative way. These activities include the following: *A personal letter welcoming to Hogwarts *Creating their own Patronus Charm *Awesome Anamagi *Creating their own candy for Honeydukes Sweet shop - this includes creating an ad to sell it. *Creating their own Marauders Map *Creating their own magical c

Hello everyone My kiddos and I have been learning about counting coins and making change. The center games and activities were fun, however one day I had a few of my students come up to me and ask if we could do something more hands on. I was so proud of them for coming to me with this question! So my wheels immediatly began turning and I came up with this product. here, the students will be shopping in the room at different stores. Some students will be cashiers and other will be customer

This is another subtraction with regrouping PPT presentation to use with your kiddos. These are great for teachers that must use the LEARN model for their math lesson plans which requires them to have a 10-15 minute mini lesson introduction.

If you are like me you LOVE Time For Kids Magazines. I think they are such a wonderful resource for students and teachers. The problem is that with such little time in a day i don't always get a chance to get to the TFK. I decided to create task cards for the magazines so that if my students ended early or needed something to do after a test or some down time they would be able to choose this as an option. Here is what is included: Main Idea: for this section students will choose an article

Hello everyone! I teach second grade and I find myself still learning new things about my teaching and what 2nd graders do and do not already know when they come to me... I recently realized (and I am not sure how I didnt before)... that my 2nd graders do not know how to use a calendar. They do not understand the basic concepts of using a calendar before they come to me. Soooo... I decided to make this pack in order to give them practice each month. there are 12 calendars (1 for each m

This is a quick and easy activity to set up in your room, and it gets the kiddos up and moving. All you need to do is print out the cards, laminate, cut, and then hang them in various spots around the room. Pass out the recording sheet to each student and them allow them to walk around the room and solve each card. This set focuses on fractions.

Hello Everyone! This is a quick and simple PDF presentation that you can use as a review game for time and money. We combine our time unit and money unit into one test at our school which is why it is combine here. I put each slide up on the board one at a time. I have the students in small groups of about 3-4. Each group has a whiteboard. They must work together to come up with the answer to each question. The team who gets the most points by the end wins the game. This is very str

This is one of my FAVORITE creations!!! I am all about being organized and passing that attitude on to my students. This planner is full of great organizational and communication tools. I also made it editable so that in certain parts you can add your own information to suit your school! Cover pages: There is a cover page for the front of the planner along with cover pages for different sections throughout the planner. This are all in color. Student information page This page is the first

Hello everyone! I just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of tim

Hello everyone! I am very excited to introduce a new series of homework packets I am working on! This is the first installment of the series. I've needed some new motivating homework ideas for my 2nd graders so I finally came up with this one! Let me explain how they work,, I have made end of the unit math packets for students to take home for homework in order to get some extra practice before the test. The gist of the packet is for your kiddos to help their friend (the character will chan

This pack was made for a mentor buddy reading system. I am putting together a mentor program with my 2nd graders and the 5th graders in my school. This pack is filled with tons of resources for responding to reading. Here is what the pack includes: Getting to know your buddy Buddy book lists What do reading buddies look,sound, feel like How I feel About Reading Text-self connections Text-text connections Problem Solution Character Traits (inside and out). Retelling Creating a new book cover

Hello everyone! This pack includes 7 different probability carnival centers for your kiddos to work on. Here is what they are: 1. Spin a Color 2. Brown bag surprise 3.Ducks in a Pond 4. Pick a Card 5.Silly Shapes 6. Candy Bags 7. Cupcake Boxes I provide cards to be printed in color and laminated that go with each station. They will just need to be put into brown paper bags for each. I also provide 1-2 activity pages for each station.

This pack is filled with bright, glittery, fun filled reward coupons for your kiddos!! There are tons of coupons to print out and choose from and its a great reward system for good behavior in the classroom! List of Coupons included in this pack: Silly Slippers Fluffy Friend Friendly lunch Mystery Reader Super Supplies Teachers Chair I'm thirsty No Homework Line Leader Sweet Tooth Broken Pencil Indoor Recess Bus Rider - 1st in line Get Comfy Got Talent Lose your eraser

Hello All! I teach a group of amazing 2nd graders that are really hard workers. However, many of them come to me without any knowledge of sentence structure or how to neatly write. So, I wanted to make something that was simple to prepare and that gave me enough practice sheets to use for a long time. This can be used as a guided writing piece or it could be at a writing center, or it could be independent work. It is versatile. My kids really enjoy seeing how much they can change the s

This pack can be used in many different ways within your classroom. I have used them for morning work as well as in my writing centers. It comes with 90 different pictures of various different things. They are both realistic and fantasy to get the kiddos creative juices flowing, I do not include many directions, rules, or restrictions with this assignment because I want to allow the students the opportunity to just write! So, the students choose a picture and then use their creative w

This booklet is part of a march larger series of books that I am creating. This specific pack focuses on the Southwest Native American Tribes. I like using these books with my students because i feel that it opens up the learning. These books have headed pages, but the learning is open to the teacher or the students. You can use them is a few different ways. I have used them to fill in as we learn about the tribes. The students fill in information throughout the unit we are studying, The othe

This pack is filled with different labels and choices for lunch so that your students can come in in the morning put up their lunch choice right away and be done with it! You can look right up at the display, write the orders on your lunch slip and your good to go! There are a variety of choices, sizes and colors in this pack for lunch as well as student number cards for them to use. There are number cards for boys and number cards for girls!