2nd grade teaching ideas

The First Week Back Activity Pack is stuffed full of activities for your first week of 2nd grade. To make it all make sense, I've included a free PDF of lesson plans for the first week of school that blends the activities from this pack with the routine and procedure lessons you need to teach! Click to download your FREE lesson plans for the first week of school, and have your best first week of school, EVER.

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Chapter book read alouds for your 2nd grade classroom. My second grade kids love some of these read alouds. Come find your new favorite! #1 is super entertaining and imaginative!

The first day of 2nd grade for pretty much any grade is a whirlwind. Plan for the first day of 2nd grade to keep students engaged, and excited to come back!

Is your class getting a little loud at the end of the year? This game is the perfect activity to keep your class calm and entertained! Use this fun activity for kids in kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, or 5th grade! The best part? All you need is index cards! Read all about how to use this game in your class here!

Facilitating Successful Reading Centers for 2nd Grade - Lessons By The Lake

Looking for some fresh and fun ideas for your unit on time? Check out some of these cute cut and paste crafts! Get your students making clocks and turn it into a cool bulletin board display or create a set of pyramids, ordering different units of time! Great for 1st and 2nd graders, fits well into any unit on telling time. 1st grade time worksheets, 2nd grade time worksheets. Time math crafts. Make a clock worksheet. Make a clock activity.

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Get all the best tips, tricks, and ideas for second grade classroom management, from teachers who've been there and know how it works.

Free 2nd grade math activity. Great to review several math standards at once! A great sample math PBL activity if you have been wanting to try project based learning in your classroom. You will love this free math activity for 2nd graders going back to school!

Take a look at number sense workstations for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and place value workstations for third grade!

It's that time of year again...back to school season. You're busy setting up your Pinterest-worthy classroom, focusing on every detail. Y...

It's Thursday, y'all! Which means one very important thing... tomorrow is FRIDAY! I've had such a great week at school, but I am so ready to spend some QT with my sweet family. They've seen me sleep more this week than probably ever before #mamaistiredyall #recoveringfromatlanta This week in grammar we have been focusing on verbs. Our main focus has been spicing up our verb usage... not only am I sleepy, but I'm tired of BORING, WEAK verbs in our writing and sentences! We made a quick chart…

End of year theme days are a sanity saver! My students absolutely love participating in a lemonade tasting and I love how it keeps them engaged while working on meaningful activities!

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Are you looking for some fresh ways to keep your 2nd graders engaged with literacy practice? This blog post has several ideas that you can use for ELA games, reading centers ,and more for your Grade 2 literacy activities. These Second grade centers are hands-on and low prep. Plus you can grab some FREE literacy printables for your class once you see all the videos of the activities included in the post.

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