2nd Grade Common Core Recommended Books: Unit 3--Building Bridges

Your time for Unit 3 may have come or gone, but I figured I would send the links for the books to Amazon anyway!  These days it is easier and easier to shop through Amazon as there are no crowds, lack of money for gas, and I can just sit back and browse without getting jabbed with an elbow!  So, without further ado, here are the informational books that can be used as read alouds for Unit 3 from the Common Core Curriculum Map K-5 book.

Just click on the pictures below to go shop while sitting in your pajamas!!!

Bridges Are to Cross by Philemon Sturges and Giles Laroche

Bridges:  Amazing Structures to design, Build, and Test by Carol A Johmann, Elizabeth Rieth, and Michael P. Kline

Owen and Mzee:  The True Story of a Remarkable Freindship by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu, and Peter Greste

Owen and Mzee:  The Language of Freindship by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu, and Peter Greste

Tarra and Bella:  The Elephant and Dog Who Became Best Friends by Carol Buckley

Wisdom and Freebies...They Go Together, Don't You Think?

I wanted to let you know about several ways that may help you find the freebies of your dreams!  

One of the best sites on the web!!

A group of bloggers/ TpT Sellers that work together to bring freebies to you!  Come join us!

 

The LARGEST Blogger/TpT Seller Group on Facebook made up of almost 200 of your favorite bloggers!  Come join up!

I decided to join up with Fabulously First and give out some of my wisdom.  I am going to have to dig deep here!!!

This was my first answer:

But, I was told that this was too short.  But, hey, it has a subject and verb, all of the necessary requirements for a sentence!

So...I went on to better advice:

And, that's all!

Post your freebies!! Get some freebies!!

Early on in my teaching career, I knew that I wanted to be able to shape the education my students were getting through my teaching and through the teaching of others.  Developing curriculum and making games came easy to me, so I was always sharing with my co-workers and friends.


As the idea of blogging came to me, I saw it as a way to share theories, ideas, and training that I had learned, with teachers across the country.  In fact, one of my dreams was to be able to host a site in which other teachers teamed up with me to share their ideas and talents.  I am proud to say that I have been able to do that!!


In January, I began building the Best Practices 4 Teaching Freebie Site and began inviting friends of mine to help supply other teachers with free ideas, downloads, and suggestions to help improve education.  I am proud to say that I have a large team that I am able to work with and they make me so proud every time I get another email telling me that another lesson has gone out!  They are dynamic, hard working, and enthusiastic.  In fact, we are so dynamic, hard working, and enthusiastic that most of us are taking some time to gather our breaths and get posts ready for the new school year that is coming up faster than I would like to admit.


Don't fret though....there are plenty of freebies on the website, and best of all, the website is broken up into subject areas to make it easy to find the perfect lesson or idea that you need.  So feel free to go to one of the pages and browse.


I am also looking for additional writers, developers, and curriculum 'ar-teests' as my 7 year old would say that can help provide additional help to teachers.  So, if you are interested in coming aboard and becoming a member of our freebie team, feel free to go to one of the pages and click on the tab to submit your information. We could use the help...we all know that teaching is a hard job and there are those times in the year when it is just simply hard to get a post up.  So, the more team members we have, the easier and more fun it will be to get those freebies out to hardworking teachers!  So, if you are a blogger or you want to learn how to blog, come on and sign up.  Summer is the perfect time to learn something new and we are all here to help you!!


So...look below to click on a button that can take you to a page where you can join in on the fun or just download what you see....your choice!!  PLEASE share this with your co-workers and friends!!  They deserve a little help, too!

Also, I just uploaded a new Scoot game.  I love it!!!  

Enjoy!  By the way, what do you think about my new button???  Pretty snazzy, huh?

P.S.  If you are on the Best Practices Freebie Team already, please leave a comment below so that others know who you are!  We need to let everyone know how talented you are!!