It's Snowing Common Core {Giveaway}

I have just completed my "It's Snowing Common Core Math and Literacy Centers}" It covers some of the common core standards for math and language arts. There are 5 math and 5 language centers, all with answer keys so kids can play independently and most have a corresponding recording sheet.

Here is what's all included and some pictures.

Greater Than A Snowman (greater than, less than, equal to)
Adding and Subtracting Elves (single and double digit options)
Even or Odd Gumdrops (ties together money and even/odd)
Measuring Christmas (estimation, actual measurement, and comparing)
Numbering Santa (expanded, word, and number forms)
Gingerbread Compounds
Mr. and Mrs. Contraction Claus
The Great Elf Race(determining meaning of unknown word)
Fixin' Up The Birds (capitalization, punctuation, homophones, abbreviations)
Sort That Noun (singular, possessive, plural)

 

So, how do you get it for free you ask?? Just be the first two people to pin the packet to Pinterest and leave a comment on this post with the link to your pin and email address and I will send it to you FREE. You can just click here and repin. Simple! Hope you have a great (short) week at school!



Common Core Language BOGO

I finally finished my Common Core Language Packet for TPT. Whew!! My best selling products are my Common Core Math Packets which you can buy individually ( Number and Operations in Base Ten, Measurement and Data, Geometry, Operations and Algebraic Thinking ) or as a bundle and those only took me a couple of months to make all 4. This language packet took me a couple of months alone to make. I am assuming it is because when I made my math packets my baby was not crawling yet. She sat on the couch beside me and played. Now she is 13 months old and EVERYWHERE! Man she keeps me moving these days but I LOVE it and wouldn't have it any other way. So with that being said I want to show you what all I have included in this packet. It covers all 2nd grade common core standards for the section Conventions of Standard English under Language. Here are all of the centers, games, posters, activities, etc. that you will get:

Collective noun mini poster
Collective noun concentration
My collective noun collection book.
Collective noun assessment page
Irregular plural nouns mini poster
Irregular plural nouns Kaboom
Irregular plural Pictionary
Reflexive Pronoun mini poster
Paw Print Pronouns
They don’t end in ed
Past tense storm
Adjective mini poster
Where does it belong Adjectives
Writing with Adjectives
Adverb mini poster
Where does it belong Adverbs
Adverb Landing
It’s a Sentence Production
Going on a Capital Search
Friendly Letter Frenzy
Contraction mini poster
Colorful Contractions..
Ladybug Contractions
Possessive/Plural Dominoes
Spelling around the Board
The Great Dictionary Race

 

Here are some pictures of what is included.

 

 

And so much more. You can click on the picture below to be taken to the product page where you can download a 14 page preview.

 

 

This 103 page packet is only $5.25 and if you purchase it starting today through this Friday (16th) you can email me at secondgradeperks@gmail.com and tell me that you purchased it and what your TPT user name is and I will send you one of my math common core packets for free (excluding the bundle). Just tell me which one you want when you email me. You can see a preview of all of the math packets using the links at the top of this post.

 

Happy Monday!!

Spirals

I'm sure you all have seen Amy Lemon's ELA and Math spiral ideas, but if not I want to share it with you this morning because I use them and LOVE them. They have made my life so much easier. I gave my kiddos two spiral notebooks. One for math and one for ELA. I used Amy's free labels and let them glue them to the front. All you do is let the kids do their work in them and then I have them turn them in to me ever so often to get some grades (great thing to have when it is report card time and you are low on grades). It is also a great way for them to go back when they are not understanding how to do something and see how they did it before. And the best part is my kids love having these. I think it gives them a feeling of responsibility. Here are some pictures of us using them last week when we were studying nouns. They did a noun/verb hunt. I hid nouns and verbs around the room and they found them and wrote them in their spiral under the correct heading. Then they gave me examples and a definition of verb. This will for sure be used for a grade for upcoming progress reports.

Halloween's A Brewin' In Our Room

I am sure that Halloween is full force in all classrooms right now. I had to share some pics of what my kiddos have been up to for this spooky holiday. First we did a pumpkin character book project. They had to read a book on their level and create a character from their book from a pumpkin. I have to say they came out pretty darn cute.

Then we have been using my Boo To You Halloween Packet from TPT. Here are some of the games from it we played:

Part of Speech Sort

Web of Facts Addition Game

 

Cupcake ABC Order (please excuse the blur)

 

Haunted Verb Tense

 

Also included is this haunted house craftivity that can pretty much be used for anything. We used it for common and proper nouns since that is what we are studying.

 

 

This by far was my favorite thing we did from my packet. I wrote a story about a cat (included) and after we read it the kids wrote their own story about a cat they made up. They had a candy rubric to go by. So if they had all capital letters correctly they got tootsie rolls, etc. Included are directions and a template to make this cute cat treat holder. When they were out of the room I read their stories and filled their treat holders.

 





We also wrote about a witch crash and made this adorable witch craftivity that I bought on TPT. Notice the lovely banner I made with my Cameo.

 

Everything in my TPT store is on sale through the 31st. You can get my Boo To You packet for just $5.20 right now. I know Halloween is tomorrow but it's never too early to start stocking up for next year!

Halloween Sale Linky

I am hosting a Halloween Sale running from October 29th-October 31st. Everything in my store will be 20% off for those 3 days. If you want to link up please join in!

 

 

Even and Odd and the Gummy Bear Dance???

So I finally completed the famous even and odd street with my class this year. I know everyone has seen this but just in case you haven't you have to click here to get the template for free from The Teacher Wife. Here is a picture of how ours turned out:

Now I have a question for all of you. Have you heard or seen the gummy bear dance? We take a lot of tests on Fridays and yesterday I remembered that I had pinned some brain breaks on Pintrest. (Don't you love that you pin so much you forget about half of it)? Well I pulled this gummy bear dance up expecting it to be too silly for 2nd grade and oh my word they loved it. Remember when you used to go to dances when you were younger and when a certain song came on everyone got up and did the moves to it? Well, that is what it was like in my class on Friday. I press play and the next thing I know all of my kids are standing at the front of the room in a big group doing these moves to this I'm a Gummy Bear song. It was cracking me up. Just curious if it is a Tennessee thing.
Click on the picture to be taken to the video. Try playing it for your class if you haven't already and see what happens. Maybe I'm just getting old and am not up on what's hip any more : )

Common Core Winner and New Freebie Blog

I am so excited to announce two things. One, I have been invited to be a part of the new Second Grade Freebie blog. You can get so many wonderful resources here absolutely free and pretty much a new one every single day. Head on over and check it out. Make sure you become a follower. You wouldn't want to miss out!!

 

Second, it is time to announce the winners of my common core for the whole year packets.

 

 

Congrats ladies!!!

 

If you didn't win and you just really want to own this (which I hope you do) you can purchase it here for 15% off for the rest of the week.

 

Have a great rest of the week!

Plural Noun Freebie and Common Core Math Giveaway

We are learning all about plural nouns and all of the lovely rules that go along with them this week. With it being fall I decided to make a plural pumpkin patch. Each kiddo got a pumpkin with a singular noun written on it. They had to write the plural form and then we sorted them by the rule they followed. Click on the picture for the patterns that you can download for free.

My common core math packets have been a huge hit in my TPT store. There are 4 different ones that cover all math common core standards. Well I finally took the time to bundle them into one packet. Buying the bundle will save you a little and will have you covered in math for the entire year. I worked so hard on these packets and have gotten great feedback on them soooooo I want to giveaway not one but TWO of the entire packet bundles. This is priced at $18.75 in my shop and contains 347 pages. There are several options to enter. You can follow my blog and TPT store for 1 entry each, you can pin the giveaway for 5 entries, and you can blog about the giveaway for 10 entries. You have to provide the names you follow by and the links to your pin or blog post. The giveaway will run from today through the 23rd.

You can click on the picture to see this and previews in my TPT store.

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