Jessica shares her passion for teaching and education on What I Have Learned. Jessica has 16 years of elementary teaching experience and currently homeschools her two middle school boys. She enjoys scaffolding learning for students, focusing on helping our most challenging learners achieve success in all academic areas.
I am all about teaching students to use strategies when adding and subtracting. Second-grade standards ask students to fluently add and subtract within 20 using strategies, not just memorization. To become…
Do you find that your students have difficulty using advanced addition strategies like using 10 to add +9 and +8 facts? My students definitely do! Many students still rely on…
As an elementary teacher, science and social studies were the subjects I struggled to teach well. I put so much time and effort into making sure my students were receiving…
There’s something truly magical about watching a young mind grasp a new concept, and one of my absolute favorite units to deliver this magic is the Long Ago and Today…
This Daily Math routine is similar to a Number of the Day and Number Routine for second grade. It covers many place value number sense standards. It includes two-digit and three-digit number sense, time, money, and more. Students practicing using a number line and many addition strategies.
I do not enjoy using too many worksheets in my classroom. I believe that students should be interacting with the content and each other. Whenever I create a worksheet for…
Blending Cards help students segment, blend, and read words in a variety of phonics patterns. They are great for kindergarten and first grade students or second or third grade students…
Easy to read animal articles written at a middle elementary school level that include QR codes and a fact sort for informational writing. These animal articles have been a lifesaver…
Planning a full year of math instruction takes time, but having a solid 2nd grade math curriculum map makes the process much more manageable. I use a curriculum map to…
Goal setting has been a long-standing classroom practice for my students. When I started teaching, we would set class and individual goals based on assessment data. We had a data portfolio…
Word Family Phonics Readers for CVC Words include decoding practice, sight word practice, and three passages per word family. These phonics readers only include short vowel CVC words and sight…
Are you headed back to your first days of school? Do you have students tell about themselves, review the rules, and acclimate them to the classroom? I developed this Back-to-School…
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