Read to or with your child for 10-15 minutes a day simply for pleasure. Engage in a conversation about what you read and why you liked it.

Printable Workbook:

• 2nd Grade: English and Spanish

OFFLINE ACTIVITIES - 2 per week

• Practice the doubles addition and subtraction facts. For example, 4 + 4 or 12 - 6. If you need a challenge, can you double 12, 13, 14, 15? How about 20 or 25? What other two digit numbers can you double?

• Pull out your coin collection for sorting and counting. Count a collection of coins up to dollar or more in value. Practice writing the value using number symbols with the cent sign or the dollar sign and a decimal point.

• Find a ruler or tape measure and go on a measuring scavenger hunt to practice measuring length. Find the length of the couch, the height of the refrigerator. How far is it from the front of the house to the back?

• Practice mental math strategies for adding more than 2 numbers. Work with two-digit numbers to stretch your thinking. Use strategies like adding the tens place, then adding the ones place or adding to a friendly number and making jumps of 10.

• Survey the family members in the house about a topic of your choice and create a bar graph to show the results. Next, write a question or two that family members can answer using the information on the graph.

• Roll dice or draw cards to create 2 three-digit numbers. Then compare the numbers using the <, >, = symbols. Repeat to create several comparison sentences.

• Grab a handful of dry beans, or paperclips, or other small objects. Then pair up the objects to see if your handful was an even or an odd number. How many were there altogether?

• Roll dice or draw cards to create a three-digit number. Then write a number that is 10 more and 10 less. Then write a number 100 more and 100 less. Repeat again to create more numbers.

• Go on a shape hunt. Using a pencil and paper, draw the shapes you see in the house and label your drawings for where you found the shapes.

• Create a schedule for your day, then draw a clock for what time each activity will begin. Practice telling time to the minute.

Videos:

Writing Fractions - This Khan Academy video is an introduction explaining how to write fractions using fractional parts of a set and whole.

Websites:

• Picture Fraction Game - This game has your child match the fraction to the picture. Note” The game goes beyond halves, fourths, and eighths.

• Fraction Splat - This game has your child identify fractions that have equal and unequal parts.

Printable Resources:

• 2^nd Grade Fraction Worksheet #1: English and Spanish

• 2^nd Grade Fraction Worksheet #2: English and Spanish

• 2^nd Grade Fraction Worksheet #3: English and Spanish

TEXTBOOK

Activity Direction/Notes

STEMScopes:

Science Activities

Scholastic

• Science Videos

Family Investigation:

• Let's Talk about Insects - English and Spanish

• Write down 3 ideas about insects

• Write down 2 interesting things about insects

• Write down one question you still have and would like to learn more about.

Other Free Web Resources:

• Backyard Bugs

• Insects

• iNaturalist and Seek by iNaturalist

OFFLINE Activities 1 per week

• Go outside with a notebook. Draw at least 2 plants and 2 animals.Write about: What does each of those plants or animals need to survive?Sentence stem: "_______ needs ______ to survive."

• During the early morning or in the evening, go outside with a notebook. Draw the appearance of the moon each night. Write down or draw out your prediction: What do you think the moon will look like tomorrow?

• Weather: Make a weather calendar for the week. What does the weather look like today? Is it hot, cold, windy, sunny? Draw a picture in the morning, afternoon and night.Write about: What kind of weather is your favorite? Sentence stem: "My favorite weather is..."

• Work with a parent to find a recipe and follow the steps to make that recipe. At the beginning, take a picture of the ingredients, and at the end, take a picture of the prepared food.Write about: What did you like about cooking this recipe? How would you change it to make it better?Sentence Stem: " I liked... To make it better, I would..."

• Get a notebook. Take some magnets off your refrigerator. Go around your house. Make a list of what is magnetic and not magnetic. Discuss: How were the things that responded to the magnet different from the things that did not respond to the magnet?

• Fill up a bucket or a sink with water. Grab some items around your house and put them in the water. Do they sink or float? Make a T-chart with items that sink on the left and items that float on the right. Discuss: Think about the items' mass and how much it weighs. What did you notice about the about items that sink? Items that float?

• Go outside. Get a collection of 3-5 rocks. Draw them in your notebook. Describe their texture, color, shape and size. Sort the rocks in order based on a trait of your choice. Write about: Describe how you sorted the rocks. Sentence stem: "I sorted the rocks by..."

• Get your notebook. Go outside and draw 3 different shadows. What time of day is it? Morning, noon and night? What direction is the shadow facing? Where is the sun in the sky? (DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!) Discuss: Why do you think shadow length changes during the day?

OFFLINE Activities - 1 activity per week

• Create a journal for you to record your daily activities, thoughts, and experiences during this historical period. Include illustrations, share your feelings about what is happening, and create your own primary source document that you can refer to in the future. You should write in your journal 5-15 minutes per day. You can have someone in your household help you if you'd like.

• Who are the helpers in your community? Make a list of 10 of the people you see helping your community as you go through your day. Write a sentence that explains their job next to their name. Be sure to include those you see in your family, neighborhood, and/or on TV.

• Ask someone in your family to tell you her story/history. Remember one thing he or she shares and tell someone else in your family. Then draw a picture of that person doing the three things you remember. Underneath the picture, write a note to the person thanking them for their time and willingness to share their story with you. Interview a new person each day and create a book to share with your family when everyone has been interviewed.

• Create a book of jobs you know of - including those of your family members. Your book should have at least 10 jobs included. On each page, draw a picture, name the job, and write a sentence that explains that job.

• Describe what a scientist does to a family member. Explain how scientists help our community. Then explain how scientists can help the crisis our nation is going through now.

• With help, if needed, draw a map of your house or street. Add a compass rose. Decide to take 5 trips across the house or down the street (with an adult), and draw your route. Then time how long it takes you to do each journey.

• Take a walk and see if you can see any bluebonnets or other wildflowers. Point them out to whoever is walking with you. Ask the person accompanying you to take your picture in the wildflowers if it is safe.

• Think about someone living in the city. Then think about how someone lives on a farm. Create a T-chart that lists the many different and similiar ways someone lives in the city from someone living on a farm.

• What is your favorite holiday and why? Explain to someone why that holiday is celebrated and why it's important to you.

• Name the people you know who demonstrate good citizenship. Then draw pictures or write about how they demonstrate that citizenship..is it through honesty? Courage? Being Fair? Being Responsible? Taking up for others? Write a thank you note to that person to give to them when possible.

• Talk to your parent(s) and ask how you can be a helper at home during this time. Ask them to give you more responsibility. Then follow through and help in the way(s) they've suggested.

• Who is the President of the United States? What is his job? What is his job during the crisis we're having as a nation? How do you think he's doing? Draw a rectangle and break it into five parts. Assign a number between 1-5 to each part. Rank how the President is doing on the scale of 1 to 5. Then color each box to the number you decided. Show this to a family member, and explain your reasoning. Then do the same thing for the Governor of Texas.

• Think about a movie you've seen in which the character had to take on some kind of responsibility for his or her community. Draw a picture of that character taking on that responsibility and what he or she may have had to sacrifice to be a good citizen.

• Watch Sesame Street on KLRU. Choose one of the characters you see in the show who demonstrate good citizenship. Make a list of the different ways they show good citizenship. Share what they did with a family member.