Fun With Fractions Pack!

So how many days does everyone have left? We are down to 12! I cannot wait to get to single digits! We are reading Miss Nelson is Missing this week. And let me say, it's always a great book to pull out towards the end of the year :) It helps some of your sweeties who are acting like Miss Nelson's students behave a little better :)

The last week and a half of school will be spent with Where the Wild Things Are {sad news about Maurice Sendak :( "Please don't go. We'll eat you up, we love you so."} We will also do end of the year type stuff :)

Okay, so the main reason for this post is that I just posted my Fun With Fractions Pack on TpT! I hope you'll check it out :)

This pack includes the following:

Fraction Matching Game
Story Problem pages (and blank templates)
Math Journal Prompts
I have...Who has? whole group game

Ice Cream Sundae Craftivity

Hope everyone is surviving these last couple of weeks!!

Fun in the Sun Math Journal Pack!

First of all, I just want to say that I love Teacher Appreciation Week!

Last night I loaded my Fun in the Sun Math Journal Prompts onto TpT. It would be a great addition to your end of the year math lessons! I hope you'll check it out; click the picture below!

Butterflies and Fractions

Is it really only Tuesday?? I am trying my very best to keep my kiddos' attention these last few weeks, but it's been a bit of a challenge. They are tired of being tested. I am tired of testing. Many of them are just D-O-N-E. And can't say that I'm not daydreaming about being poolside... :)

I am trying to squeeze in as much as possible these next couple of weeks, and I am sad to say that I had to shorten my Eric Carle unit to almost nothing! Instead of the big unit I usually do, we are using his books to learn about the moral of a story. Each day for a mini lesson, I am reading one of his books to my kids and we are discussing its moral. They are loving it so far! We are recording our morals in our little "poof" books. Here are some samples from last year...

Yesterday was an unofficial"Butterfly Day." We tied in fiction and nonfiction books, which the kids LOVED. Here are the books we read...

 To illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly, we used pasta!

We will continue with our moral journals this week using Eric Carle books.

Today we started reading

Alexander hopes that his friend drops his double decker ice cream cone in Australia, so to make him have a better day we made him Fraction Sundaes!

You will be able to find a template for our Fracion Sundaes in my Fun with Fractions Pack that I am finishing.

I will be posting it to my little store soon :)

Biography Freebie!

This weekend has been CRAZY busy for the hubby and me! I swear that everything is going on in Oklahoma City this weekend so we have been on the go, go, go. We went to our Arts Festival Friday night (and it was a perfect night for it!), we went to the Norman Music Festival all day yesterday, and today Todd ran the Memorial Marathon Relay with his family. Needless to say, I have done absolutely nothing school related this weekend.

I did want to share a FREEBIE with you all that I used this past week! We spent the week learning about biographies. We discussed information that biographies typically include and read several biographies together. Each day, I had the students fill out a page in their Biography Journal so they could record their learning. Click here to get your copy of the journal :)

Then as a culminating activity, the students had to interview an adult family member about his/her life. Then they came back to school and we worked on writing a biography about that person. I am so bummed that I didn't photograph their work because they did a great job!

Down to 19 days! We will be doing some fun activities these last weeks with some of my favorite books... Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Miss Nelson is Missing, and Where the Wild Things Are!! And we will all do our best to make it to summer :)

2nd Grade Common Core items on TpT!

So, I am still learning this whole TpT thing. Slooowly, but surely! I added two items that I made for myself to help me document the Common Core Standards in my lesson plans. I still write out my lesson plans each day, because I like to have a hard copy of things. So these two items are how I have been documenting when I teach each skill. I am also able to keep notes about which lessons went really well or any other notes!

I hope it will help some of my fellow 2nd grade bloggers out there! I have also considered whipping up forms for grades K-5.

Anyway, check them out!

Reading and Language Packet and Mathematics Packet.

Have a great weekend!

Edible Landforms!

This week we have been learning about our great state of Oklahoma, and I decided it would be perfect to tie in landforms. We started off by reading about landforms in our social studies. Then we made the much anticipated EDIBLE LANDFORMS! The kids LOVED this! It tested my patience a bit :) but it was worth it when one of my sweeties said, "Mrs. Lynes, thank you for the best day of my LIFE!!!" Ha.

I have great parental support this year, so I assigned each child an item to bring for the project. And of course there were leftovers, so they got a little BIG sugar fix :)

Items needed are as follows:

--Template of the US traced and cut out on cardstock (I had 8 for my kids to share)

--1 tortilla per child

--2 paper plates per child (1 for candy, 1 for tortilla)

--1 plastic knife/popsicle stick per child (depending on your kids, haha)

--tubs of white icing (I used a little more than 2 tubs for 24 kids)

--Pull and Peel Twizzlers (I gave each child 1/2 of one)

--white chocolate chips

--regular chocolate chips

--gumdrops OR dots candies

--m&ms (5 BLUE for Great Lakes, 1 RED for Oklahoma {or your state!})

--coconut dyed with green food color

I prepared my plates during lunch time. It really did not take long. I would suggest seperating your red and blue m&ms beforehand though!

Look at the map key below to see what each food item represents.

The kids will be able to eat all the candy and sugary goodness off of this after they share their project with a family member. Since they traced the US with marker, they were told not to eat the tortilla :) They learned a lot and had a great time. Mrs. Lynes is tired though! Ha.

First TpT Item! (Freebie!)

I have been wanting to do TpT for awhile, but just never took the time to set up an account. But I finally did it (with the encouragement from my teammate, Amy)! Last week I did a mini unit on inventors and inventions, and this is one of the printables I used. In 2nd grade, we like to throw in some timelines when we get a chance :)

Check out this little Inventors & Inventions Timeline :) Enjoy!