Second graders finish their tasks faster and are more familiar with different concepts. It is, therefore, important that parents and teachers give them activities that are a little more advanced and that stimulate those active brains! Request a Demo. Our Company. Ages K - 6th. All ages. Faster Gameplay 2.
Create a comic book Your second grader will learn to use the Drawing Toolbar in Microsoft Word to create his own family comic book. This activity builds writing and computer skills. Make a self-portrait Making a self-portrait is an engaging art project for second graders. Develop a mental image Have your child make a mental image of a passage that has been read aloud. Weather graph Have your child observe the weather for a week or more and make a bar graph of the results.
Does it sink or float? In this activity your child makes predictions about what objects will sink or float, tests the objects and then classifies them. Act out a script This activity will help your child have fun, increase reading fluency and expression, and get the whole family involved.
Make a reading tree Have your child keep track of the books he reads by having him write them on a reading tree. Plant parts salad Make a healthy salad with your child out of plant parts. Describe an object In this activity your child writes about an object in detail. Share on Pinterest Updated: April 23, Advertisement Get the GreatSchools newsletter — our best articles, worksheets and more delivered weekly.
Should you keep a sketchy secret if your child asks you not to tell? Explore step-by-step directions for this idea. In second grade, students learn to partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares.
Search "partition" in Wixie for a range of practice and play activities that help students grow to learn that equal shares doesn't have to mean the same shape. Most students have or have seen a snow globe at home or at a tourist attraction. Ask students design a snow globe to showcase the animals and plants in a particular habitat. Search "snow globe" at the Wixie home page for a template. There is also a snow globe glass image in Wixie's sticker's library they can add to their file to add a glassy effect.
Petroglyphs are objects carved into rock by prehistoric people. Search "petroglyph" at your Wixie home page. Assign to students and they can use the Eraser tool to "carve" their own petroglyph image. Use the microphone tool to tell the story of the rock art. What makes where you live special?
Our families choose places to live based on economics, weather, family, geography, and culture. Have your students talk to their parents about why they chose to live where they do.
Walk the neighborhood, take pictures, and use Wixie to create a brochure to let others know about the unique neighborhood you call home. Start from a blank page or search "brochure" at your Wixie home page to start from a template. Read or watch Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins. This story describes a family with five creatures comparing features between them in many different ways. Have each student collect five creatures data for their home. Search "creatures" in Wixie to find a template student can use to collect data for five creatures in their home.
Explore other books that make for great literature adaptations. A silhouette is a sharp outline or shadow of an object. While students can always draw silhouette outlines, they can also create them using stickers from the Image library.
Start a new blank page. Use the Image button to find and add sticker to the page. Simple stickers are best. This may also be a great time to talk about horizon line. Have students select each sticker, go to the Edit menu and choose Glue to Paint layer. Use the paint bucket to fill each sticker with black. Clean up spaces with the paint brush and add ground if necessary. Finally, select the Arrow tool and use the Background Picture button to find a colorful background! Topics: Wixie , covid Professional Learning.
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Share Create web sites, epubs, and presentations. Brainstorm signs of spring Regardless of the current weather outside on the vernal equinox, what are the signs of spring in your area? Create a superhero Create your own super hero! Create a collage Add images to a blank Wixie page to represent something.
Explore antonyms Explore antonyms with your child. Step-by-step directions for creating antonyms in Wixie 6. Seeing Shapes lesson plan with literature connections, samples, and more 7. Make a wish Search for "wish" at your Wixie home page and open the My Wish activity. Take a 5-senses walk Go outside and walk around your yard or neighborhood.
Create an animal riddle Create a riddle to challenge other student's knowledge about animals. Explore an Animal Riddles lesson plan Find out more Create a personal timeline Have students add photos and images to create a timeline that shows important events in their life.
Explore more timeline ideas Send a virtual high five Right now most people are going above and beyond to respond to the pandemic. Write a letter to or between characters in a story Taking the perspective of a character in a story can help students understand their motivations and better comprehend their response to events in a story. Simple surveys and great graphs Survey your friends, family members, and neighbors about a favorite book, sport, food, game, or at-home activity.
Adapt a rhyming story to build skills with phonics It's SchoolLibraryMonth. Find more creating writing ideas that build phonics skills Make a map of your neighborhood Use the "By My House" template in Wixie, to have students create a map of important places in their neighborhood. Capture reading fluency Capture student fluency using the recording tool and Wixie templates with prose and poetry passages for grades K Review and rate a book Have learners write a review of a recent book they have read.
Interview a family or friend about life in quarantine Life has changed in the past month for people across the world.
Create an Arcimboldo-inspired self-portrait Giuseppe Arcimboldo is an Italian Renaissance painter known for his portraits of people that use objects like fruit and books.
Explore a 5 E's-style lesson for this project Explore character traits and support with evidence Have students use Wixie to recall, retell, and share text, images, and voice narration about a character's physical traits, feelings, and actions. Explore more ideas for using cluster diagrams to organize student thinking Solve a tangram puzzle A tangram is a Chinese puzzle made from a square cut into seven different shapes, called tans.
At your Wixie home, search "tangram" to find a range of challenges! Build vocabulary with word games Wixie includes a folder of Word Play templates you can use to challenge students to expand vocabulary and see words.
Create a backyard or neighborhood field guide Ask students to go outside or look out a window and observe a plant or animal that interests them. Go Botany and Cornell have sites that can help Once students know the species, have them use Wixie to create a field guide for that species or even several species that live nearby.
Write your own version of A. Milne, who you know from Winnie the Pooh. Craft a concrete, or shape, poem Concrete poems are poems where the words are arranged in a shape that reflects the topic of the poem. The pros and cons of quarantine Life is definitely different under quarantine. Write a fractured nursery rhyme Wixie has an entire folder of templates you can use to write a fractured version of your favorite nursery rhyme.
Create a thank you card for your teacher Tomorrow is Teacher Appreciation Day! Make a pictograph Pictographs are fun ways to show off data. Write about your favorite relative Practice opinion writing through a favorite relative project.
Design an Animal Diary Have students use personification to write a diary for an animal that teaches others about its unique physical characteristics, behaviors, and adaptations.
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