Ready to decorate for a new year

Wee are halfway into our summer vaca and we have been busy thinking about next year. We looked back over the school year and thought about what we needed most for common core and decided that our grammar instruction needed some sprucing up! We both love foldables, graphic organizers and interactive notebooks- so we thought we would combine them with grammar. We are too excited to teach with these materials. We have a grammar interactive notebook that we used while doing GPS, so we updated for common core. We added the anchor posters to keep us on track.

The posters are part of the Interactive Notebook set. We made them in both chevron and polka dots.

So after making them, we decided we need new alphabets to match:

freebie polka dot alphabet

freebie chevron alphabet

Click on each picture to download the alphabet posters for free. Happy summer!

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What's HOPPNING???

You may have to ZOOM in to read this!  Learning in process!!

Hen House a HIT!

Well...after trying to hatch four wee little quail eggs, we concluded our study by creating Hen House Foldables.
Although my students were disappointed that the eggs did not hatch, they loved reflecting on what they had learned.  For next year, I have located local egg breeders so that the chances of them hatching will be increased.  Also, I am going to invest in a larger incubator.
Oh, I have the whole Chicken Life Cycle unit in our TeachersPayTeachers store.  (HollisHemmings)

Greek Myths~Beloved By Students

The way that we ended our last full week of school was by reading and writing about the main characters and the lessons they learned in each myth.  It was startling how second graders could show such enthusiasm for reading when they knew they'd be out of school in a matter of days.  They thoroughly enjoyed participating in the "close reading" activities and writing about the lesson learned from the character's point of view.  Some students wanted to "collect" their pocket puppets and take them home as a group while others delighted in taking home a new puppet each day!!