If your second grade students are working on how-to writing or procedural writing, you may be looking for a few tools to get started. Here are some resources to help. It’s Wednesday, so I’m back with another writing post. Today’s focus is on How-To Writing (some of you might call it Procedural Writing). Because each class of students is different,… Read More
Air & Weather Freebies, Day 4 – A Hodgepodge of Freebies
Welcome to Day 4 of the Air & Weather freebies! If you are just joining in on the fun, you can play catch up here: Cloud Activities Games & More Songs and Poems Today I’m here to bring you even more Air & Weather freebies! As you are collecting books for your unit, here are some graphic organizers… Read More
Air & Weather Freebies, Day 3 – Songs & Poems
Welcome to Day 3 of the Air & Weather freebies! I’m so glad you are back for more. In case you are just joining in on the fun, you can read about Cloud Activities here and find Games & Art Ideas here. Today’s focus: I love integrating these songs and poems into our unit. They come in handy… Read More
Air & Weather Freebies, Day 2 – Games and More
Welcome to Day 2 of the Air & Weather freebies! I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s cloud freebies. Today I’m back to share more! It’s no surprise that I love using games to engage my students in learning. Here are a few weather-themed games and graphing activities I have created for my students. I hope you can use them!… Read More
Air & Weather Freebies, Day 1 – Clouds
Welcome to the first of four days of Air & Weather freebies! Today’s focus: Living in the Pacific Northwest, clouds can be found almost every day in the spring, which is why it’s the perfect time to teach this unit. One of the first things we do is fill out the first two columns of this KWL chart about… Read More
Air & Weather Freebies
One of my favorite units to teach every year is the Air & Weather unit. Our district uses the FOSS Science Kits and I love how many hands-on activities there are for kids. However, over the years I have added a few extra activities to use during this unit and I wanted to share these activities with you. In… Read More