In this lesson, students will give an opinion on the best part of the story "Oh My! It's Apple Pie!" and validate why it is their favorite. Included are student samples, an assessment sample, templates, and videos of the lesson in action.

Students will get plenty of experience with hands-on practice and an opportunity to create an example of something shaped like an oval.

Students will be able to identify the number one, identify groups with one object and represent the number one.

This lesson offers routines for blending and segmenting onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. Included is a video showing students practicing this skill and ideas for centers.

The long and the short of it..... In this introductory lesson to ordering lengths, students will be able to compare objects by length using the vocabulary longest and shortest. The lesson is introduced using the book "The Dog Show" and includes pictures and a printable worksheet.

The long and the short of it... In this introductory lesson to ordering lengths, students will be able to compare objects by length using the vocabulary longest and shortest.

Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20. Today we do it by looking at the number line.

Students apply their knowledge of the order of operations to simplify numerical expressions for a second day.

Using a debate format this lesson provides students the opportunity to solve a complex problem.

Operation Independence! Students will now take what they have learned from previous data lessons and put it into action. The students will work in pairs of two to decide on a survey question and then collects classmates' responses to their question

What objects are in the day sky and the night sky? How do they seem to move? Come and explore with us as we discover the sun, moon, planets and stars! This detailed lesson plan includes pictures and videos of the lesson in action, materials, a parent letter, and examples of student's work.

In this lesson, students will observe and communicate how the stars are in the sky both day and night. The extremely detailed lesson includes photos and videos of the lesson in actions, examples of student's work, materials, parent letter, and an art connection.

This lesson is an informal assessment of student understanding of the base ten system, a critical area in the Common Core.

SWBAT explore the characteristics of cubes, pattern blocks, and geometry blocks. SWBAT count a set of objects up to 20 by 1's. SWBAT play the game "Greater Than" with a partner, using the correct vocabulary.

This site provides six practice activities to learn how to partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.

This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.