I know everyone is super busy getting ready for Thanksgiving (I am cooking squash right now, too) but I thought I would take a minute and link up with 2nd Grade Shenanigans for Take me Back Tuesday! I found this fun post in December of last year about my favorite

During the month of November, I always take time to be thankful, no matter how stressful my life is. Would you like to join me? I made up a template where we can share the things (10 of them) we are thankful for! The background is from Schroeder’s Stars and the

The blog hop has ended ! Thanks everyone who stopped by! Welcome to My blog, Reading and Writing Redhead! You have arrived at      At each blog stop, you will be gathering Reading gifts and freebies.  In each post you will find a picture of a snowman with a letter on

Happy Saturday everyone! I just spent 3 days at the Wilson Language Institute in Oxford , MA doing the introductory training. I love it! I just am bummed because I am a classroom teacher so  I can’t implement it right now. In any case, it has been a super crazy

Hi everyone! Just saying hi this Sunday before I start working on my lesson plans. I am going to be out at Wilson Language training from Wed-Fri this week so I have a ton to prepare which is stressful, but I am super excited to do the Wilson training! I

The blog hop has ended! Thank you for visiting.  Feel free to check out the  Mystery Word product at my teacher stores .  Welcome to the blog hop! I’m so excited to be participating with these amazing teachers. You will be able to snag all kinds of wonderful resources if

I’ve made it a goal for myself to work on place value more this year. I want to teach it more effectively and have the kids walk out of second grade with a really firm understanding of all of the second grade Common Core standards for place value. With that

I have been busy finishing up a bunch of projects that I had in the works for a while. I was trying to think of ways that we could get our students to write fun, seasonal, topics, but without mentioning specific holidays. For example I know many schools do not

Hi everyone ! I made up a packet to help my second graders practice the CCSS 2.NBT.2 and 2.NBT.4 on place value. It’s over at my Teachers Notebook shop here and my Teachers Pay Teachers store here– but I have a freebie for you from it! It’s one of the