This week our second grade classrooms are exploring the different sounds the letter y makes. The letter y is a crazy letter! Sometimes it acts like a consonant, and sometimes it acts like a vowel. When it is a vowel, it can make the long i sound, the long e sound, or the short i sound. No wonder the … [Read more...] about Teaching the Sounds of Y
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We Love Teaching with Music
When we want our students to remember something, we find a fun music video. Not only are the songs engaging and entertaining, but our students can soon sing them by heart. Today, when my students were writing sentences, all I had to do was start singing the sentence song, and they remembered to … [Read more...] about We Love Teaching with Music
Our Second Grade Phonics Scope and Sequence
Knowing what to teach and when to teach it is one of the most basic parts of planning your phonics instruction. Unfortunately, many programs have a scope and sequence that doesn’t make sense. Topics jump around with little thought to what students already know and what they don’t know yet. Another … [Read more...] about Our Second Grade Phonics Scope and Sequence
Learning About Mechanical Energy Conservation
Energy is the ability to do work. In science, work means using a force to move an object. So, bouncing a ball is a type of work because the ball moves, but pushing on a wall is not work because the wall doesn’t move. Mechanical energy allows an object, or person, do to work. Like other types of … [Read more...] about Learning About Mechanical Energy Conservation
Learning About How the Sun Affects Earth
The Sun in Space Our planet, Earth, rotates around the Sun along with seven other planets. The Sun is so huge that its gravity pulls all of the planets around it. Asteroids, moons, and comets also orbit around the Sun. The Sun is so big that 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside it! There are also … [Read more...] about Learning About How the Sun Affects Earth
Ecosystem Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids
Every organism on Earth needs energy to live. Except for newly discovered species living in the deepest parts of the ocean, every species on Earth gets the energy they need to live from the sun. Ecosystem food chains and food webs can both be used to show how energy moves from the sun to different … [Read more...] about Ecosystem Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids