This is my portable voting bulletin board. I reuse this every year and it gets the kids really excited to vote. I just blow up new balloons. I let my students make campaign posters and we vote on a president and vice president.
This has to be one of my favorite graphs. This graph is from another teacher in 2nd grade, Mrs. Reed. Scholastic has some presidential debate videos that would go perfect with this graph.
FREE. You can print these task cards and go. This is word work
made easy. This is a freebie on Teachers Pay Teacher from Mrs. Mabe. Set includes 44 word work activities, along with 4 blank task cards for programming. Also included are 21 recording sheets for task card activities.
Character's personality based on actions, thoughts, and feelings. I used Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Keven Henkes. We wrote a recipe for Lilly's personality by charting her actions, thoughts, and feeling on the character peronality chart. This lesson came from http://www.readworks.org/lessons/grade2/character
I used David Goes to School by David Shannon for this lesson. This was a great book to use to start this lesson. The books is easy to spot David's looks, action, and feeling and the kids love it. The lesson came from
This table allows students to practice spelling shape names, drawing correct figures, and counting the numbers of sides and vertices! This is a great freebie from Just Tinkerin Around.
Free book bin labels from Lyndsey at A Year of Many First. She has a great blog with lots of freebies.
Click on the picture to get the free book bin labels.
Daily 5 Task Cards for word work. This is a freebie on Teachers Pay Teacher from Mrs. Mabe. Set includes 44 word work activities, along with 4 blank task cards for programming. Also included are 21 recording sheets for task card activities.