Guidance: There are many different ways you can get your child engaged in the act of reading each day. Encourage students to read independently and to a parent or sibling. Parents can also read aloud to their child each day. When reading with your child, consider taking turns reading each page. Use the link below to access virtual read aloud books that can be used at home.

If the student is reading a text independently, it is important that the text is a "just right" text. This means that there are not more than 4-5 difficult words on a page. When reading aloud to your child, you can choose more complex texts.

Whether you are reading aloud to your child or your child is reading aloud to you, it is important that the child understands the text. Please use the comprehension questions resource below to guide discussions with your child about the text they have read.

Guidance: Students can create stories independently, with a sibling or with a parent. Encourage students to choose a topic, genre and text structure before they start to write the text. The students can write their stories on copy paper, in notebooks or online. Consider using the writing organizers linked below to help students plan out their text prior to writing. Enjoy reading and rereading the created stories together, and discuss the intentional decisions they made in their text and in their illustrations. Share compliments and what you liked best about the book. The celebration could be extended by sharing the book virtually with family and friends!

• Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Slice of Life, Literary Nonfiction

• Text Structures: Question & Answer, Back & Forth, Through Time, Big Idea

Guidance: Encourage students to engage in mathematical thinking each day. Second grade students can work on addition and subtraction with both basic facts and numbers up to 1,000.

Consider playing games with your child to support basic fact practice for numbers within 20. These may include board games where they have to roll dice, count cards, match amounts and numbers or sort items. Parents can use a standard deck of cards to play games that encourage mathematical thinking such as solitaire, Make 10 Go Fish, or Addition/Subtraction War. Students are also familiar with the games found on Greg Tang's math website. Use the link below and choose from any of the games.

Word problems that use real life context can be used to support students working with numbers within 1,000. Encourage your student to solve word problems found in the "word problems" link below. The blanks seen in each problem can be filled in with different number choices, so that work within the same story context can be used repeatedly.

Begin word problem work by reading the problem with your child so they understand what is happening in the story. Then allow students time to solve the problem. Students might use blocks or models, draw models, use a number line, decompose the numbers or compensate to solve the problem. After the problem is solved, have your child retell their solution strategy, explaining how they got their answer.

Guidance: In second grade, our process for science learning includes "phenomena" and how scientists investigate and explain these phenomena that occur in the world around us. Phenomena can be simple noticings in the natural world such as leaves changing color in the fall, how a polar bear can swim in icy cold water, or a river flowing.

As second grade scientists, we "notice" elements of a phenomena by studying it closely in real life, by looking at a picture, or watching a video demonstrating the action of the phenomena. After we notice, then we wonder and ask questions to help guide our curiosity and investigation. Then students experiment, investigate, or research to explore how and why the phenomena exists. Finally, we use evidence from this learning to support or prove our final explanations of the phenomena.

Use the following resources to access resources to support noticings for phenomena and science activities that can be done at home!

Guidance: Consider using the following cards and exercise video to get your kids moving at home. Anything can be modified to work in your home. Encourage 30-60 minutes of movement each day.

Guidance: Artists often make art as a way to explore their personal interests, questions, and curiosities. Art is often reflective of the process that an artist goes through as they learn about and understand the world around them. You can encourage your second grader to make art by asking them to think about the things that they wonder about. Perhaps you pick out a virtual field trip from the resource below based on your student’s interests. After your child has explored the resource, they could make an artwork that demonstrates their learning about the topic!

As a second grader, your student might enjoy exploring the #metkids Time Machine. Art is often created with a certain theme or concept in mind, and students can explore these big ideas using the link provided below. By clicking on an artwork, they can learn more about the history behind the artwork as well as get ideas for their own artmaking.

Guidance: This time in our lives can be stressful, we understand! Try to model happiness and a positive attitude as much as you can. As a family, participate in stress-reducing activities like exercising, coloring, playing games, and listening to music. Encourage children to spend some time with your family and alone each day. Alone time can look like reading or listening to music in a quiet spot or taking a rest. Alone time and mindfulness can help all of us cope with our unusual circumstances.

The resources below are optional ideas that could be supportive to your family that mirror what students are used to experiencing from a guidance lesson at school.

Notice: The purpose of this website is to provide parents and students with optional resources that could be used during the current school closure due to COVID-19. Students are not required to use the resources and information found on this site. Information and resources on this site do not constitue "educational services & opportunities" being provided by the ADM Community School District. Please use the following link for more information about why ADM is not providing distance learning educational services and opportunities: ADM COVID-19 FAQ