Place-Value Fun! and a Little Bit of Blends….

We are off to a busy start to the 2014-15 school year!  So hard to believe we've been in school for 5 weeks already.

This week we are focusing a lot on 3 digit place-value.  Here are a few things we've been working on:

I LOVE Marshmallow Place-Value from Babbling Abby.  You can grab your own copy from her website.

Next up, we extended our learning with the AIMS Activity: Basic-ic Buildings.  My class couldn't believe I was letting them "build" with the base-ten blocks:)  

Click on the picture above to get this activity to use in your own classroom:)

 Our Phonics / Spelling focus in Journey's this week was reading and writing words with Consonant Blends.  So I created this little activity to glue in our interactive notebooks.  

To start off the lesson we formed partners by matching up consonant blends with word parts.  You can find that activity here: Mixing Up Some Word Fun created by Sam Nowak on TPT.  Then they worked in pairs to come up with word blends to complete their "Flower Foldables."

**This Interactive Notebook Entry is part of an on-going (hope to be done soon) project!  

I am working on creating an Interactive Notebook to match the 2nd Grade Journey's Reading Program.**

Starting Off With Journey's

Wow has this school year been very, very busy!!!!!  Our district adopted new Reading and Math series so it has taken a lot of my time planning and getting familiar with the new material.

Here are a few activities from the beginning of the Second Grade Journey's Text:

Henry and Mudge Sequence and Craftivity:
We had so much fun making these and sequencing the events from the story.

Many of the stories in the first unit were about pets or taking care of pets.  So I created this little research/ extended learning project for my students.  We completed this over a few days and it gave me time to squeeze in the end of the unit assessments.

Check back… I will be loading even more Journey's extended learning projects:)

Patterns and activities to upload to my Teacher's Notebook Store Soon (Sometime in early January)!

Out with the old… In with the new….

After 9 exciting years of teaching Open Court/ Imagine It, I will be retiring my binders and starting new ones.  My district has adopted HM Journeys.  I went to training this summer and all I can say is WOW is this series packed full of components.  I'm not sure how its all going to work but I am excited to be reading/teaching some new stories.  I'm sure I will also be busy creating some new story projects.  

The first project I created was my weekly spelling word cards.  I display these on the board (using magnets) but you could display them in a pocket chart or pinned to a bulletin board.  I copy them on color card-stock using a different color for each unit.  

You can grab a copy at my TN Store!