Happy Fall Y'All! Fall is my favorite time of year. School gets going in the fall, my husband and I started dating in the fall, the weather here in the Carolinas is beautiful and the color changes in nature are amazing. Not to mention the fall holidays. So, here are some fall goodies you can pick up at my TpT store. Just click on the picture to bring you to the product.

2nd grade Morning Work

This listing contains 10 weeks of Morning Work for your Second Grade students. It is one sheet per week.

These 10 weeks include:

Monday: Monday Math

Tuesday: Focus on Phonics

Wednesday: Wednesday Word Problem

Thursday: Grammar Galore

Friday: Weekly Writing

The questions follow the Common Core and get progressively harder as the year goes on (skills ranging from greater than, less than, adding 3 numbers and double digits, fractions, 3D shapes and so forth. In phonics they learn common rules and how to apply them, as well as practice sounds, blends, digraphs, diphthongs, contractions, and more. For grammar they will identify nouns, verbs, possessives, plural rules, correct sentences, spelling, punctuation, etc.

This is great for Morning Work while students are arriving to school or when you need to fill a few minutes before or after a transition.

Place Value Matching Game

This is a place value matching game aligned with CCSS 1.NBT.B.2 and 2.NBT.A.1. There are 15 three digit numbers for students to match the standard, word, symbol and expanded forms, as well as 15 two digit numbers for students to match the same forms. There is a Player 1 Place Value Matching Mat and a Player 2 Place Value Matching Mat for the students to put the cards showing the same number in each form. There are also a set of 15 blank cards labeled standard form, word form, symbol form and expanded so that you may switch out pre-printed cards for blank cards to challenge students further with a specific form. It also includes 2 follow-up worksheets to assess understanding.

Fall Common Core Lesson Plan: The Little Scarecrow Boy

This fun Fall/Halloween Common Core lesson plan for comparing and contrasting scarecrows based on fiction (The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown) and nonfiction text (link to Children's Encyclopedia Scarecrow website). The standards covered from the Common Core are: RI.2.9, SL.2.1, SL.2.2

This lesson plan packet includes:

*Compare/Contrast Lesson Plan

*Venn Diagram for Guided Practice

*Venn Diagram for Workshop Activity/ link, Assessment/Accountability

*Link to nonfiction scarecrow info

*Writing Center Activity

*Listening Center

*Word Work Activity

Fall Common Core Lesson Plan: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

This is a great lesson plan for Fall! Children love the story of The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.

This item includes a Comprehensive Sequencing lesson plan that goes along with the children’s book The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams.

It is aligned with the Language Arts 2nd Grade Common Core Standards RL.2.4 and SL.2.2.

Included in the lesson plan packet:

Lesson Plan

Sample Anchor Chart

Whole Group Sequencing Cards

Workshop Sequencing Activity (Individual/Center Sequencing Cards)

Assessment/Student Accountability Sheet

Word Work Center Ideas

Fall/Halloween Literacy Centers

This Literacy Center Packet includes:

*6 Fall themed literacy center activities

*3 Word Work Activities: CCSS (RF.1.3, RF.2.3) Students make as many words as possible out of the following fall words: jack-o-lantern, scarecrows, Frankenstein. Each activity includes letter cards and recording sheet.

*Picture Word Cards: CCSS (L.1.1, L.1.2, L.2.2, RF.2.3) 15 picture cards for students to sound out the words. Dotted lines on the cards for students to use dry erase markers to write the word. Recording Sheet to transfer words onto. Answer Key included.

*Fall Writing Paper: 4 different themes of Fall writing paper. Each theme has one page with lines and one page without lines.

*How Many Syllables?: CCSS (RF.1.3, RF.2.3) Fall theme word cards for students to place on a Syllable Mat according to how many syllables each word has. Recording Sheet and Answer Key included. Color and B/W copy included for your convenience.

*Collective Noun Catch: CCSS (L.2.1) Students match the spider with the

collective noun to the spider web with the group/collection to which it belongs. Recording Sheet and Answer Key included.

*Fall Word Alphabetical Order: CCSS (RI.1.5, RI.2.5) Students will put Fall Word Cards in ABC order and then record them on Recording Sheet. Answer Key included. Color and B/W copy included for your convenience.

Common Core Lesson Plan and Centers for A Turkey for Thanksgiving

This is a differentiated Sequencing/Retelling Lesson Plan Packet Aligned with the following Common Core Standards:

RL.1.1, RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.1.7, RL.2.1, RL.2.2, SL.2.2, RI.3.8

It is to be used in conjunction with the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting, a longtime favorite of my students.

This packet includes:

*Comprehensive Differentiated Lesson Plan

*Whole group Term Sequencing Cards

*Differentiated Whole Group Sequencing/Retelling Cards (Just Pictures, Pictures and Sentences, Just Sentences)

*Whole Group “W” Questioning Cards (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How)

*Center Activities:

•Differentiated Sequencing/Retelling Cards (Just Pictures, Pictures and Sentences, Just Sentences)

•Assessment/Accountability sheet for Sequencing/Retelling Cards—One for each level (total of 3 different sheets)

•Cold Read Sequencing Activity based on link to a Read Works passage

•Reading Response activity for audio version of story. (Link and QR to read aloud on YouTube)A Turkey for Thanksgiving Read Aloud

•Vocabulary words

•Differentiated Vocabulary Concentration Activities(word to picture and definition, word to definition)

•Vocabulary Matching Activity (word cards, synonym cards, definition cards, and sentence with a blank for the vocab word cards)

•Vocabulary Assessment/Accountability sample example and directions

•Writing activity with writing paper

                                                   Fall Bump! and Gotcha! Games

This listing contains 2 First Grade Literacy Bump! Games and 2 First Grade Literacy Gotcha! Games. There are directions for Teachers explaining how to put the games together. Directions for how to play each game are written so they can be laminated for student use.

The following skills are covered by the games:

Bump Game Skills:

• Beginning and Ending Digraphs (CCSS: RF.1.3.A)
• Sentence Punctuation (RF.1.1, L.1.2.B )

Gotcha Game Skills:

• Beginning and Ending Digraphs (CCSS: RF.1.3.A)
• Sentence Punctuation (RF.1.1, L.1.2.B )

PLUS -- 2 follow up written activities for each skill.

How are You Smart?

I love this quote by George Evans.  It's like I tell students all the time, "It's not how smart you are, but how you are smart".  This is so important for us to remember as educators. Our students come to us from different homes, backgrounds, experiences and circumstances. We need to be willing to meet them wherever they may be on any given day and remember it's not how smart they are, but how they are smart.