Getting familiar with George and Abe

Let me introduce to you ... George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Let me say that my kids LOVED making these little guys! You can catch them here!

My kids wrote about what they would do if they were President of the United States. Boy they had some interesting, exciting, scary, and for lack of a better word HILARIOUS answers! This packet includes a whole group and individual graphing activity and all the items needed to create it as well as a word search and a FUN writing activity. Go check it out :)

Dr. Seuss and St. Patrick

First of all if you are visiting my blog for the first time I would like to say "Welcome" . Please feel free to comment on any of my posts & don't forget to follow me for great ideas and giveaways.  I love to hear from my viewers! I have posted some new ideas to my Facebook fan page! If you have not "liked" it yet then take a second to stop by! I update it daily with new ideas that I use in my classroom. You can find it here Teaching Shananigans Facebook page I also have giveaways for new packets and TPT credits!

 In other news  We have good behavior day on Friday and since time will not allow for us to celebrate as much for Dr. Seuss' upcoming birthday, we went ahead and made our Dr. Seuss soup!  I found this idea at Lory's Page. She has some really cute ideas and several freebies go check her out! All I did was tweak the recipe a little bit to fit my taste :) These were the magic ingredients...

Mixed it all together and ... ( drumroll please )

 

Let me just say that the kids LOVED it! They wanted seconds! My co-workers also enjoyed it as well :)

 

 

I have created a new craftivity packet that you can find here! It has some super cute activities to use with your students for St. Patrick's day and is a super cheap price too :)

 

Its a GIVEAWAY!

Hello bloggers! I am throwing a Giveaway on my Facebook page! Just hope on over to visit my page at http://www.facebook.com/3rdGradeShananigans   All you have to do is like my page and share the contest banner! Once my FB Fan Page hits 100 likes I will give away 2 $10 credits to my TPT store! Check it out and please feel free to leave feedback/suggestions

Hello... We meet again.

Sadly, I have been SO busy. Teaching 2nd grade leaves about 3.25 seconds left in the day for anything extra to be done. No worries, I am back for  good now!  I am going to attach a math freebie below that I used earlier in the year. It is a pizza chart that I used to chart each child's progress while learning their addition facts. It can be tweaked some if needed. If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment below! Enjoy :)

Download Addition Pizza Tracker FREEBIE

                                               

Johnny Appleseed Giveaway !

 September 26th is Johnny Appleseed's birthday! Yes that is soon! I have collected some great videos for the kiddos to watch to teach them about the life of Johnny Appleseed. I have also made a packet with two writing activities, a hat template, and a T or F sheet for the kids. I have posted it in my store here!

 I found these two videos ( CLASSICS WHOOP WHOOP) and have linked them for you below...

Here is the giveaway details...

On September 23rd I will pick 2 winners to receive the Johnny Appleseed Activity Packet and 1 free item of choice from my TPT store! All you have to do is comment on this post with the number of your email address and visit/like my Facebook page with a comment under the giveaway post!

Exploring Space with an Astronaut

This week's story was Exploring Space with an Astronaut!  This  was a fun story because there is no limit to the activities you can do with this story.  One activity I had my student's complete was a writing activity on what they thought space would be like if they could explore it. I asked them to answer these questions:

• What would it FEEL like to visit space?
• What would it LOOK like?
• What would it SMELL like?
• Would you HEAR anything?

I was surprised at how excited my kids were about this writing activity. When my kids get excited about writing I always feel like I have won. Writing can sometimes be hard to get students to do. They want to tell you ALL ABOUT IT , but they don't want to write it. After my students were finished they were allowed to color and cut out this trendy little astronaut I found here<---- . When I found this I signed up for education.com  They have some really neat things. After they cut the astronaut out they glued it to black construction paper and drew their stars and planets with white (light colored) crayons. woo-lah! They turned out A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E! And their writings??!..... IMPRESSED ME! I will definitely try this activity again next year.

Reading and Math in action

 In other news I have been SLAMMED busy keeping up with second graders...... ready for it? SIGH!!!! They are busy bodies for sure but I absolutely love teaching 2nd  grade. I'm still moving things around in my new classroom and trying to figure out what exactly works best. Its a slow progress but I will get there eventually. I have been creating some new reading packets for each weekly story we have. I tried to include some fun writing activities that the students can get excited about . I have recently posted the kits for Henry and Mudge and A Walk in the Desert. Check those out by clicking the links!

  This year our school district has picked up a new math series called GOMATH! Its taking some time to adjust to a new series but so far I really like it. The website access gives you tons of animated resources that demonstrate the skills being taught. All of the manipulatives are digital with LOTS of noise which the teachers...I mean kiddos really like :) Next week we will be beginning chapter 2 which is all about comparing numbers. I have just recently completed a packet that has several activities for Common Core's comparing numbers. The packet also include the chapter vocabulary for that topic.You can find it here!

While working on different ways to write numbers this week I noticed my kids definitely needed some extra practice identifying the word for of numbers. Here is a little freebie practice sheet I  threw together to quiz my kids--->Name That Number Freebie