2nd grade language arts

Hey guys! I am excited to have a guest blogger today: Sara from Mrs. V's Busy Bees. She has been kind enough to share some awesome ideas wi...

One of my new Common Core ELA Units is called "Figure it Out." It is about notable people who overcame challenges to become successful in life. We read about Helen Keller, Leonardo da Vinci, George Washington Carver and Thomas Edison. We created lap-books using an Invention Brochure that I bought on TPT from This Little Piggy Reads. The printables fit nicely on the file folder. Here are some samples of my student's work. I made a sample but allowed my students to use their own creativity. It...

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Happy Friday, friends!! Today was a teacher workday for me and I had GRAND plans. I mean GRAND plans. But, of course, I wasted the day away chit-chatting. What can I say? How often do we have a chance to gab with our teaching buddies? It's rare, I tell ya! We did move the chit-chatting to our favorite little Mexican restaurant for lunch. That was productive, right? Oh wait - after lunch we actually did get SOMETHING accomplished! We decided to submit some proposals to teach workshops at our...

One of my new Common Core ELA Units is called "Figure it Out." It is about notable people who overcame challenges to become successful in life. We read about Helen Keller, Leonardo da Vinci, George Washington Carver and Thomas Edison. We created lap-books using an Invention Brochure that I bought on TPT from This Little Piggy Reads. The printables fit nicely on the file folder. Here are some samples of my student's work. I made a sample but allowed my students to use their own creativity. It...

It's football season again and football is big stuff in my small Texas town. This is an activity my first graders love! I am posting about it again because I have had several requests for the patterns for this activity. You can read exactly what I did with this activity in a previous post HERE. You can grab yourself a copy of the patterns by clicking HERE. Happy Teaching!

Turkey Verbs FREEBIE! -18 acting cards -verb sort -writing activity Enjoy! Lanier's Lions...

In English, we recently began chapter three which is all about…you guessed it…verbs! In our first two chapters, we discussed sentences and nouns. Most of this was a review for the kids,…

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After covering the elements of nonfiction, I moved onto story elements. I chose to focus on characters, setting, problem, solution, plot, and theme. This is the anchor chart I used to introduce the concepts. The pictures I used on the anchor chart can be found at: http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/2012/08/teacher-featurea-year-of-many-firsts.html. Students glued a copy of the anchor chart into their reader's notebooks under the tab "charts." This way students could refer to the chart anytime...

OK......I must confess! I'm a STALKER! A blog stalker, that is! There are SOOOO many incredibly talented people out in blog land that sim...