Classroom Rain Forest

In the 2nd grade classroom in which I was doing my first student teaching placement we explored the Rain Forest.  Students took part in creating a classroom rain forest in which they created animals and wrote a report about their favorite animal.

Book Storage/ Seat

Here is an easy way to add seating to any room.  A great idea to go around a guided reading table where students store their books in the bin.

Place Values

Found this idea on Pinterest and couldn't resist trying it out!

Have students create a number.  Ask them what place value one of the numbers is in (one, tens, hundreds).

Contractions

A great way for students to visually see how to make contractions!

St. Patricks Day

Read the book- "The Day the Leprechaun Lost His Rainbow", have the children create the project below!

Detailed Writing

In order to get the students more involved in the writing process and to add more detail to their paragraphs I showed them a plain hamburger.  Then I added more items to the hamburger to show them that the more detail added to the hamburger the better the burger looks!  They thought it was pretty cool.

Contractions

We did contraction surgery!  The kids loved it!  They dressed the part and cut and bandaged the contractions!