Silly In Second

During my Math Workshop students visit two rotations per day that are designed around the Math CCSS for my grade level. My “Fact Fluency” station is from the Operations & Algebraic Thinking Domain. Activities and games for this station are fairly simple, repetitive, and fun, of course! My goal is for students to be able to work on their Fact Fluency in pairs or on their own without needing to interrupt my small group instruction for directions on the activity.

This full pack is used the same way as my sample pack on my store. It contains an additional 380 Word Cards and a student recording sheet your use in small group instruction. This has been very helpful for my summer school students in practicing the writing of complete sentences. You may start with just the WHO and DID WHAT cards and add in the WHEN and WHERE as students are ready. Copy these cards onto different colors of paper. I use construction or card stock & laminate to make them more

I created these sentence prompt sticks for my students when we are discussing informational text both in large group and guided reading group settings. This has been very helpful in teaching my students to formulate an appropriate response by using evidence from the Author as well as their own opinion in answering a question about the text. Once they have learned the procedure, students know they need to use a Prompt Stick with an A (author's evidence) and a ME Prompt Stick to explain their op

Allow your students hands-on practice of their multiplication facts by building these arrays of cookies for their "monster" to eat! Kids love this activity which shows repeated addition is multiplication. This packet includes Multiples 1-10. The student direction cards include direction written in two formats (3-by-3 or 3x3). A sheet of cookies is included for you to copy or students may use markers you already have in the classroom. The first week they perform this activity in their guided

I have used this to communicate with parents how they can assist their child in their fluency practice. I find my classroom parents want to help their child become a fluent reader (and less of a robot), but don't know how so I created this folder for each of my students. My classroom parents also appreciate the "I can statements" for fluency because they can better understand reading fluency. It is amazing how creating these folders from large construction paper (and laminating them so they l

Play Ten Frame Top-It and reinforce your students' Number Sense with these cards. Each card has three ten frames to be consistent and allow students to see the differences between the numbers. This product contains numbers 0 through 30 with appropriately filled-in Ten Frames and can be printed off or copied as many times as desired to create your Deck of Ten Frame Playing Cards. I have my students play Ten Frame Top-It in pairs with each deck containing two copies of each card. We a

Use the classic picture book "Amelia Bedelia" to teach your students the character trait of FOOLISH. Take your students through the process from Read Aloud to writing a paragraph in the Opinion Writing style. Just an idea of the process I have guided students through: 1. Fill in Character Trait Poster 2. Read Aloud & Review of Synonym/Antonyms for FOOLISH 3. Picture & Text Walk while Finding Evidence with Symbols on Sticky Notes 4. Reading & Sorting Evidence Cards onto Pocket Charts 5.

***Please enjoy this product! These will print on 2x4" labels*** In my classroom I use Student Numbers for Organization purposes. Each student is assigned a number in ABC order starting at one. Numbers are used in multiple ways, but the best thing about them is that I use these labels to label classroom materials from Notebooks, Folders, Math Bags, etc. Please take the time to rate this product! Thanks

An important reading comprehension strategy for students to practice is Visualizing or creating a Mental Movie as they read. If students are unable to create their own movie inside their brain, they are not paying close attention to their reading or may need to go back and reread. Included in this product are two anchor charts (one for a Pocket Chart sleeves and one general use), a graphic organizer, and directions for a Guest Teacher to follow. This product can be used with poetry, short fic

Make it easier on yourself and your Guest Teacher on a last-minute sick day. Use this product to create a resource for your grade-level team. This product was created with the struggling district in mind. The teacher shortage is especially hard in regards to our Guest Teachers. We are in a profession that requires more work for a sick day and I hope this product will help my fellow teachers with that. In my last district we discussed creating a system where a full day’s work of lesson

These large and colorful Flash Cards were created with my ELL students in mind. Our school is quite diverse and I have been privileged to work with students from various cultures and backgrounds. This provides challenges as well as rewards. My biggest challenge with these students has been their inability to develop a personal relationship to their numbers. They just don’t understand what the word or numeral “five” means. Their parents, bless their hearts, just don’t know how to talk

Make it easier on yourself and your Guest Teacher on a last-minute sick day. Use this product to create a resource for your grade-level team. This product was created with the struggling district in mind. The teacher shortage is especially hard in regards to our Guest Teachers. We are in a profession that requires more work for a sick day and I hope this product will help my fellow teachers with that. In my last district we discussed creating a system where a full day’s work of lessons are

Make it easier on yourself and your Guest Teacher on a last-minute sick day. Use this product to create a resource for your grade-level team. This product was created with the struggling district in mind. The teacher shortage is especially hard in regards to our Guest Teachers. We are in a profession that requires more work for a sick day and I hope this product will help my fellow teachers with that. In my last district we discussed creating a system where a full day’s work of lessons are read

This set of Singular-Plural cards contain examples of -s, -es, and -ies. Great for use of a Word Work activity in Daily 5 and review of plural rules in small group reading instruction. Direction sheet is included for students to read from at their center or rotation once you have used Interactive Modeling to explain the game.

Help your students improve their decoding skills by practicing with Word Chunks. These are typed up from the Word Chunks we work on in 2nd grade in my school district, but are applicable to other grades as well. My students love playing Go Fish with their Word Chunks in our room and once the procedure and rules were understood they took it and ran! An added bonus is that it a great structure for them to practice basic social skills and problem solving. We discuss possible proble

What is it? This pack was created when I was hunting for a mentor text that provided plenty of evidence for students to identify for the practice of this character trait. I wanted a book to use in a Read Aloud that was enjoyable for my students, gave me at least three solid examples to demonstrate for my students, and the flexibility to use this text in other ways throughout the school year. After I found this text, in an effort to make things easier on myself (so I didn't have to reinvent

Reading Responses for students to practice their reading strategies. I have kept them simple to allow for flexibility in how they are used in my classroom. My students across all ability levels were able to use these responses and I could adjust the difficulty based on the books they were reading. Reading Strategies Practiced in this Pack: Visualizing, Retelling in Sequence, Summarizing (SWBST), Analyzing Story Elements, Making Predictions, Making Connects, Questions, and Comparing Yourself t

Students will enjoy their practice with reading and saying aloud Long Vowel words with the Silent E. Great for work at the teacher table, student-led small group work, parent volunteers, or guest teacher. Words Practiced Include: bake, ride, case, bone, poke, came, slide, like, hope, rose, same, time, code, hike, game, dime, tone, joke, fine, name, tide, fade, nose, and rake Follow me on Instagram @sillyinsecond and Twitter @sillyin2ndgrade Thanks for visiting my store!

This packet was just created this past weekend after seeing my students' scores on the STAR Math test. One of their areas where they could improve was in their Place Value so I went to work starting with identifying digits in the Hundreds, Tens, and Ones Place of a 3-Digit Number. Success! They loved it and my each of my six math groups were able to complete this with very brief instructions at the beginning of the week. Each group took roughly 12-15 minutes which is perfect during our rotat

Main Idea is an important concept in the Common Core Standards for Informational Text. I created these sentence prompt sticks for my students to reference in our discussions of Informational Text because I found it wasn't easy for my students to express how they knew what the Main Idea was. We are expecting our students to discuss Informational Text and explain their reasoning, but this can difficult when our students are more comfortable talking about their reading of Fiction. They have so m