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In my second grade class, we always learn about the life cycle of a mealworm. I buy mealworms from the local pet store, and my class provides a habitat for them. We are able to watch the entire life cycle unfold. It is truly amazing! While the mealworms grow, we do some fun experiments with them. I usually do the attached activity in small groups. They love this!

This is a rubric for a second grade habitat diorama.

This is a 14 page Word document that I created for the common core standard 2. OA. 3 It includes the following: - Even and Odd game played with either cards and/or dice. It's a great game for whole group or stations. I used it as a whole group game and then the following day used it in stations. This game includes directions, game board, score sheet, and two enrichment pages. - Math Review and Practice test that I gave my students to use as homework. it could even be used as a pre-assessment

This task is intended to assess student application of area and perimeter for 2-D Shapes. Every year my students get excited to complete this assessment. They can't believe I take this for a grade because it's so fun to do! Objective: Students are expected to create a house plan/layout of their dream house. They can be as silly or creative as they wish with the types of rooms their dream house entails (trampoline room, bubble room, gokart room, arcade room). Once students create a house plan

This is a Halloween and Grammar activity I used after I read aloud Arthur's Halloween. The words in the word sort is from the story Arthur's Halloween. Students have to identify which word is a common and proper noun. All the words are lower case, which make it harder to identify. Then, students must use their editing marks to correct the Proper Noun. After that, students can cut and paste the nouns into the correct category, common noun or proper noun. This could be used in a Halloween Station,

This is a 15 question powerpoint on Even and Odd. I used it as a review game with my 2nd graders the day before our assessment. Each question is worth a certain amount of points. The kids loved keeping score!

This is a rubric I created while teaching 3rd Grade Social Studies. Our school system uses Gallopade for Social Studies. This rubric goes along with Chapter 15 in Gallopade. Activity: This was a fun summative assessment for students. Students created mini-booklets for each explorer we learned about. I allowed students to use their Gallopade books and this self-made rubric to complete the activity/assessment over a few class periods.