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.
Arrays are one of the most important conceptual models for introducing multiplication in second grade. When students can see 3 rows of 4 flower pots and connect that image to…
How do you teach multiplication in your classroom? There are several different concepts that students need to learn regarding multiplication, in addition to the traditional number sentence and multiplication fact….
Understanding the meaning of the equal sign can be challenging for most first-grade students. They often think it simply signifies the answer, with the left side presenting an expression and…
Get a FREE Center Rotation Sequence that groups students heterogeneously. No student has the same rotation as another student. This is a fun way to easily group a whole class of students for special events and holidays.
Second grade teachers typically encounter landforms 2nd grade content in two places: social studies, when students learn to read and label physical maps, and science, when students study how wind…
Want to learn a fun way to fold a booklet for students? I taught my students how to fold this little booklet to record the results of a multiplication game….
Holidays are a great time to infuse informational writing into your reading and writing curriculum. Students get to learn about animals from around the world and learn to write informational paragraphs…
Teaching fractions can feel like one of the trickier units of the year. Students need to recognize fractions in multiple ways, as numbers, as parts of a whole, and as…
As I worked through grammar and spelling activities with my students, I noticed they kept forgetting the names of grammar terms like apostrophes, contractions, and compound words. These are genuinely…
Scaffold student writing in the content areas by providing them with word lists, a way to organize the words and sentence frames. Find out how I help my English learners and struggling writers to organize their thoughts when comparing and contrasting urban and rural environments.
This free equivalent fractions chart is a printable classroom tool that helps students see how different fractions represent the same value. You can use it as a reference chart, cut…
With a circular hundreds chart, students can effortlessly count and smoothly transition across tens. This simple 0-99 chart aids students in counting numbers within the range of 100. Its user-friendly…
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