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Practical Ideas & Resources for 2nd Grade Teachers


National Cheese Pizza Day Activities: A Fun Day of Pizza, Fractions, Sequencing & Writing
Looking for a fun way to celebrate National Cheese Pizza Day? We worked on sequencing, fractions, graphing, writing, and following directions, and then students made their own mini pizzas.


Punctuation Practice with Macaroni
Make punctuation practice more hands-on with macaroni activities for commas, apostrophes, contractions, possessives, and quotation marks.


Types of Sentences
Types of sentences are what we always study at the beginning of the year. We begin with making a class anchor chart. It always amazes me how much my students love making anchor charts. My charts are nothing much to look at but they get the job done. We used Brach’s candy corn, Red Hots, Smarties, and Tic Tacs to create our punctuation marks since I have a student with a peanut allergy this school year. You can also use the licorice pull n’ peel as a question mark, but I did
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