2nd Grade

On this page, you will find low and high tech resources for 2nd Grade students.

• Read a book to your child or have him/her read a book to you. Make this a consistent routine every day--choose a time and a special place in your home.

• With your child, point out what they can see in the pictures. Ask questions about the characters, setting, colors, etc.

• Ask the child: What is this book mostly about? (Think main idea.) What did you learn in this book? (If fiction, think about the text’s lesson; if nonfiction, think about the topic.)

• Ask: If the book has a main character, then think about them. Ask yourself, “What kind of character is he/she?” Your child can share their thinking by talking about it or writing their response.

• Have your child talk about, draw pictures, and/or write a response to the book read or heard. What was the text about? What did you like or think was interesting about the text?

• To refine your phonics or reading comprehension skills, watch a BrainPOP Jr. video daily and complete the associated video tasks.

  1. CLICK | BrainPOP Jr. - Offers free access during school closures. Click on the banner at the top of the page and set up a family account to access many Reading and Writing videos and activities.

• In order to learn about a grade level appropriate topic through reading, choose an activity from Scholastic Learn at Home or ReadWorks.com and complete the tasks associated with the texts.

  1. CLICK | Scholastic Learn at Home - 20 days of cross-curricular learning experiences based on stories, videos, and learning challenges.

  2. CLICK | ReadWorks.com - Create a free account and choose texts according to grade level and topic

• Have your child keep a journal about what is happening each day and what they think and feel each day.

• Students can practice addition and subtraction within 200 individually or with a parent. If this work is done individually, parents should check their child’s work.

  • Students and families could create silly word problems with addition and subtraction within 200

  • Parents should make sure that the problems include regrouping for both addition and subtraction

• Have students practice and demonstrate their understanding of place value, counting, and comparison of Numbers to 1,000

  • Students can count collections of items, then decompose the collection into so many hundreds, tens and ones (e.g. 213 would have two group of 100, one group of 10 and 3 ones)

  • Parents can give students 3-4 digits and ask them to make the largest and smallest number possible with these digits

  • Write numbers with 2-3 digits (e.g. 87, 145, 765) on index cards to play war with, have students explain which number is larger and why.

  • Parents can play memory with students matching numbers written in number form and expanded form (e.g.matching 765 on one card, and 700 + 60 + 5 on another card)

• Students can create a 3-digit number and decompose it in 3 different ways.

• Students can find 2-D shapes at home with a family member (circle, triangle, rectangle, square, rhombus, hexagon). They can then draw and record them.

• Students can find 3-D shapes at home with a family member (cylinder, cone, sphere, cube, rectangular prism, triangular prism).

• Find a small collection of coins to count in order to determine the value up to $1.00.

• With your guardian, create an ecosystem with decomposers.

  • CLICK | PBS: Break it down - Introduces kids to how the world works through science.

• With your guardian, explore how weather changes over time.

  • CLICK | PBS: Look at weather Factors - Provides videos and games to learn about current NASA space programs.

• With your guardian, draw a picture of a spider and list the basic needs of the spider.

  • CLICK | Scholastic Learn at Home (website) - Introduces kids to science in their world through activity, books, video and much more.

• With your guardian, collect flowers and leaves from outside, draw the structures in your journal and identify different parts of the flowers and leaves.

• With your guardian, complete a coderZ challenge.

  • CLICK | Stechchallenges - All challenges are due by 3/30 midnight