Stacey Maxson

Boost your Everyday Math instruction with these interactive journal templates. Designed to use with the second grade CCSS-version of the Everyday Math curriculum, students can use these templates as a reference all year long. This product includes templates to go with the big skills in all 9 of the units. Pages are added, changed, and improved all year long. I created this to use in my second grade classroom and am always looking at ways to improve this product. Unit 1: Math About Me introd

In this fun beginning-of-the-year activity, students list their favorites on the front page without writing their name. On a second page, they then draw a self portrait. Classmates and visitors must guess who it is without looking at the second page! This is a great activity for open house! Pages are great for copying back-to-back, stapled together, or, as I do in my classroom, glued onto a folded 11 x 14 in. piece of construction paper.

Turn your persuasive writing lesson into a seasonal activity that is sure to be a hit! Santa needs elves to help him get ready for the holiday season and needs students to apply! After filling out their application information, students must write a persuasive letter to Santa to tell him why they should be chosen to be one of his special helpers. This file includes the elf application, a 4 reason graphic organizer and a 2 reason graphic organizer, and two different styles of writing paper.

Put together in one 19-page document, this unit breaks the chapter book into 4 sections. The tasks for each section include a context clues activity, a prediction, basic level comprehension questions, and a higher-level response question. 16 vocabulary words are also identified in a glossary-style format. This unit also includes a tic-tac-toe board of 9 activity choices and the graphic organizers required for the tasks.

Do your students come to school on November 1 suffering from trick-or-treating hangovers? Keep your sugar-stuffed kids engaged with these seasonal activities. The Day after Halloween Survival Kit includes: What kind of costume did you wear? bar graph and pictograph What treat was your favorite? bar graph and pictograph 3 creative writing prompts Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead informational article Who, what, when, where, why, how comprehension questions Dia de los Muertos vs. Halloween Ven

Practice digraphs with a seasonal twist! Go-Fish style card game in which your students have to match the missing digraphs with the words they fit into. Digraphs that are in this game are sh, ch, th, and ph. This game includes 16 word cards and 16 digraph cards. Perfect for literacy centers! This could also be played as a matching game.

Stimulate your students' imaginations and excitement with this seasonal writing prompt and activity. Students are applying to be the Easter Bunny and must explain what they would do if hired! This activity includes a short application, a pre-writing graphic organizer, and lined writing paper.

This engaging board game aids students in recognizing vowels and consonants. As students play, they identify letters as either a vowel or a consonant. A worksheet is also included for written practice.

Help your students achieve academic and behavioral success by teaching them how to set S.M.A.R.T. goals! This file includes bulletin board headings for each letter of the acronym and 2 organizers to help students track and meet their goals.

Help your students understand that Christmas is about giving with these daily activities! This is perfect for morning work, center work, or writing activities! Each day, students scan the QR code to find out that day's kindness mission - ranging from writing thank you letters to making Christmas cards to doing kind things for people.

Students practice telling time by playing this concentration game in which they match up the digital time with its corresponding analog clock.

These are miniature-sized "I Can" statements for each of the language arts common core state standards (4 per page). These "I Cans" are written in student-friendly language with technical terms swapped for more common language Each strand of standards has a different color scheme. Award as badges when a student masters a standard, use in a data binder, or use for reference while lessson planning... or whatever other way you can come up with!

Give your students the opportunity to reflect on their year! This self-report card was made with the end of the year in mind, but could be used any time of year - before conferences, quarterly, etc. Students are asked to rate their best subject, the subject they need to work on, and their work habits; set a new learning goal, and explain their thoughts on their overall performance.

Make fractions fun for your students! In this activity, students put different colored paper circles together to make a caterpillar. They then use their colors to write fractions.

Build your students' fluency! These phrases come from Dr. Edward Fry's Instant Words List of high frequency words. The 100 phrases are divided into ten lists of ten phrases. These lists are perfect for practicing fluency as a warm up, partner work, center, and at-home handouts.

Help your students recognize related addition and subtraction facts and fact families with this fire-themed matching game. Students choose a card from a subtraction pile and an addition pile. If the cards match, they keep them; if not, they put them back. The person with the most matches is the winner! Full color and printer-friendly black-and-white versions are included. A worksheet assessment is also included.

Your sports buffs won't even realize their practicing math skills! Students go head to head with this football-themed practice or review game. Students will practice complements of 10 and mentally adding two-digit numbers. Included in this game: - Game board - Instructions (printable) - 30 game cards - Answer key

Introduce your students to literature circles with this packet. Working in groups of 4-6, all students have their own job to complete for the literature circle meeting. Jobs include: Discussion leader Questioner Summarizer Illustrator Vocabulary Expert Trait Finder

Digitize your morning calendar routine! Created in ActivInspire for Promethean Boards (but can run on any interactive board, as long as you have ActivInspire downloaded onto your computer), this 4 slide calendar routine includes the traditional calendar and a weather graph, along with "day of school" number practice - making addition and subtraction number models, 10 more/less, 100 more/less, even and odd, money, and base-10 representation. Completely editable, so you can change the calendar e

Take your students on a holiday adventure around the world! Teach your students about Christmas/winter holiday traditions in other countries. This unit includes a one-page reading passage, vocabulary words and pictures, and comprehension questions for 7 countries: Mexico, England, Italy, Germany, Australia, Sweden, and Israel. Also included are graphic organizers for visualizing, comparing and contrasting, and main idea and details.