Help me give my students more hands-on math manipulatives and better grammar and language arts activities.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Curtis's classroom raised $792
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My Students
I am a teacher of silly, eager to learn second graders. We have a lot of fun while learning. They love trying new things in class and are always excited about new projects. Because of these kids, I've found my love for teaching again!
My kiddos come in all shapes and sizes.
They have different skill and ability levels. Not only that, but they're also coming to school with different backgrounds, culturally and socioeconomically.
It is important to me that I give them the best instruction possible. I want them to finish second grade with a passion for learning, a love of reading, a sense of independence, and confidence in themselves to never give up.
My Project
Second grade curriculum has a huge grammar piece. We teach parts of speech, word parts, comma usage, quotation usage, and more! Reading to my students about these different things gives them more of a connection to what they're learning. We have something we can refer back to and they can remember what was discussed in the book rather than what was on a worksheet we did two weeks ago.
Grammar has a big emphasis in second grade, and so does math.
Second graders are solving complex word problems, identifying numbers up to 1000, and adding and subtracting with regrouping. It's the dreaded "carrying" and "borrowing" math skills. They need a strong understanding of place value--how much each number is actually worth--in order to understand fully the standard algorithm to regrouping.
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