I need ideas for a second grade classroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Question

I just found out yesterday that I will probably begin teaching 2nd grade next week. I did my student teaching in 2nd grade and had a wonderful time. I'm really excited, but I am looking for unique and creative ideas to use in the classroom. I believe in a hands-on approach to teaching/learning, love literature circles, and and pretty open to ideas. I am also thinking about using centers- how do you do centers in your classroom and how do you make them work for you.

Thanks in advance for all of your ideas.

Answer 1

Oh my gosh, there is so much you can do! The possibilities are really endless. The question is: how much space does this classroom have? That will determine how much you can put in your room and storage ideas. I suggest having more centers than the ones you are required to have. Fluency, comprehension (making connections, predicting, inferencing, etc.), word work/phonics, read around the room, and readers theater centers all work well for second grade classes. Plus there are tons more. You should look up litercy centers on the internet or get some professional resource books to help you. The other teachers at the school are also great resources. Don't forget other things like a word wall for sight words and word walls for content vocabulary. You have already gotten some other good suggestions.

Answer 2

Well, you should teach in groups, like find stuff around the room that relates to the subject then have them build it or somthing, do something fun and interesting. then later on maybe the next day or the end of the day, divide them into 2 teams,once you do that,have one team line up on one side of the room, and the other team line up on the other side.
One person from each team go up and answer a question you would ask about what they learned today[such as,How many angles are on a triangle.] ,whoever answered first with the right answer earns a point for their team.and you probably want to ask multiple questions that way everbody gets a turn[things will go bad if they dont]

what ever team wins, gets 2 peices of candy and the other team gets 1 peice so they dont feel bad or something like that.

anyways i hope this helps you! good luck!.

Answer 3

Congratulations and welcome to the profession! I teach first and use centers for Literacy and teaching Guided Reading. My centers are Listening (books on tape, with with a response journal), Word (using word families) Spelling (use magnetic letters to construct the week's spelling words) Handwriting, Poetry (they have folders with a collection of known poems to re-read; have a poem of the week posted and they work on putting cut up strips which have the lines of the poem written back together) . There are lots of others too. A great resource book is Literacy Centers by Debbie Diller, it's available on amazon.com
Good Luck!!!

Answer 4

I'm not a teacher, but I remember 2nd grade like it was yesterday (I swear it wasn'!), I had an awesome teacher who's infulenced me to want to be a teacher. Anway... one cool thing I remember doing was when she did the classroom rules, she had a put our handprints on it, like a border. You probably have nice closets, but on the off chance you have shelves that you want to hide (like they have teacher edition books or other seldom used materials), get a curtain and have the kids hand print it and write their names in fabric paint on it. Messy, yes, but it's a nice personal touch, it'll give you something to remember your kids by and let's them have a little fun too.

Answer 5

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