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.
Do your students have difficulty counting money? Coin counting is an important part of solidifying early math skills, but it can be tricky for children to master. Teaching your second-grade…
How do you teach opinion writing in your second-grade classroom? These writing strategies will help you teach students to use academic language when expressing their opinion and then turn that in excellently written paragraphs.
Partitioning rectangles takes a bit of spatial reasoning and the ability to draw straight lines. It’s a difficult skill for second graders, especially those with poor printing skills. Partitioning rectangles…
Confession time. I’m exhausted. At the end of each and every day I’m exhausted. I’m not just tired. I’m exhausted, spent, done. I’m introverted. Are you an introverted teacher? Find out what I do to make it through the day and the week. #introveretedteacher #teachingishardwork
How do you teach students about life cycles? Below are some ideas and resources on how we build background knowledge and work with information about life cycles and animals that…
Sponge activities are short learning activities designed to fill those 5 to 10 extra minutes in the school day, such as the wait before lunch, the last few minutes after…
I’m a super organized person (that’s what people tell me anyway). After a husband and two small kiddos who stay home most of the day (my husband is a stay-at-home…
We’re almost into the final stretch of the school year! March, April, May and part of June! It seems so close and yet so far away at the same time!…
This Addition Go Fish Game is a great way for first and second-grade students to practice using the addition strategies they have learned in a fun classroom game. It’s the traditional Go Fish game with a twist. Students match expressions that have the same value.
Do you use data walls in your classroom to help your students meet classroom and individual goals? Does your district require you to set goals with your students? If you…
Do you have a problem finding time to focus on Science in the early elementary grades? I find it challenging to find the time for science and as a result,…
Do your students struggle to compose and decompose numbers when adding and subtracting? My students struggle to break a number apart and use its pieces for computation. This type of number…