January Highlights

Wow!  It's hard to believe that we have nearly completed our first month of 2012!  We've had a great month.  Here are some of the activities that we have done in January 2012.

New Year's Resolutions from Amy Lemons' template.

Cute resolutions!

 

Snowglobe stories inspired from Pinterest.

 

In science we have been studying the solar system.  Here is a put the planets in order activity.

Chinese New Year Graphing that I got from First Grade Blue Skies.

Our monthly take home project was to make a time line of your life using coins to represent each year of your life. 

Can't wait for February to get here now!

Tag! You're It!

Melly over at Stapler’s Strategies for Sizzlin' Second Graders!  has tagged me!

1. You must post the rules.
2. Post 12 fun facts about yourself on the blog post.
3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create 12 new questions for the people you tagged.
4. Tag 12 people and link them on your post.
5. Let them know you've tagged them!

12 Fun Facts about me...

1.  I love to exercise!  I have over 100 workouts that I rotate in our home gym!
2.  I love to read for pleasure!  You can always find me reading my Kindle or something on the internet!
3.  To some people I am known as "Bargain Becky!"  I am always on the lookout for a great deal.  I regularly check slickdeals.net, dealseeingmom, and freebies4mom.  I think my best deal was getting a big box of Pampers diapers on Amazon for under 50 cents after coupons!
4.  I love to find ways to make delicious low-fat meals.
5.  I have been married for 9 years.
6.  We have a wonderful daughter that is 3.
7.  I am the oldest.  I have 2 younger brothers.
8.  I have a super student teacher this semester!
9.  I have one of the greatest classes in several years!
10.  I am in my 15th year of teaching.
11.  I love purple!  Pink is great too!
12.  I was featured on the back cover of  Collage Video's Spring DVD Catalog in a bikini.  Click here to see it!

Unfortunately, I think I am going to have to be a rule breaker.  I simply do not have time to finish steps 4 and 5.  After spending about an hour working on this much, I am sorry to have to pass on the rest.  Having a 3 year old and being a busy mom, wife, and teacher I don't have the time to sit down and finish.  Sorry if anyone thinks I'm a party pooper.

Carl the Complainer

Our Reading Street Story for this week is Carl the Complainer.  It is a new story and not listed in the old Reading Street.  Our phonics skill for this week is Prefixes un, re, pre, and dis.  As usual, here is the game that I created to share!

We also will do the weekly comprehension check from here.

{Here} is a Carl the Complainer Readers Theater Script from Cary Short and a {Trifold} from her too!

You can do the Dominoes from {here} and {here}.

Enjoy your week!

Even and Odd Game

Last November I remember downloading an even and odd game: Turkey Trot from Sunny Days in Second Grade.  I really liked this game.  It inspired me to make a Valentines version.  So here it is!

Click here to download!

Let me know what you think about the game.  I love comments!

100 Days!

Today was our 100th day of school.  We celebrated by doing these activities:

The first one I created from a Pinterest inspiration from Kinderpond.

 Click the picture to download flip a coin 100 times.

Kathy Law's 100 Color by Code

 Teaching Heart's 100th Day News

I also like to do a weekly focus poem.  Here is another website that has some great poems about 100 days.

Happy 100 Days of School!

Fire Fighter! Unit 5: Week 1

We're just cruising right along in our Reading Street 2nd Grade Series.  This week it's on to Fire Fighter!  Our phonics and spelling skill is suffixes: -ly, -ful, -er, and -or.  Here is my weekly board game to go along with this skill.  

Click here to download

We will also do a variety of activities from JC Schools that can be found here.

Enjoy your week!

Math Data

I've been thinking a lot about our Data Binders and how I want my kids to track how they are doing in math.  Today I created this multi-graphing page so that we can keep the majority of our math data on one page.  Here is what I came up with.

Click here to download

if you find it useful!