Find time for your reading life! Read entertaining books, newspapers, magazine articles, and recipes.

After reading a fiction book, create a story map for the plot. It should include the characters, setting, problem and solution/resolution. Think about the character’s actions and how the character changed throughout the story, the character’s goal or desire, and how the character solved their problem. You may include illustrations with each part.

Make connections while reading a book. You can think about what you already know that is related to the book or what the book reminds you of. Share your thinking with someone or write down your thoughts on paper.

Think about the author’s purpose for writing the book. “What were the author’s feelings about this character or topic? How do you know? What was the author’s intended purpose? How do you know? What information did the author want me to gain while reading the text?” Share your thinking with someone or write your thoughts down on paper.

Reflect on a book you read or heard. Act out the events of the story in sequential order.

Think about the central idea of an informational/expository text (nonfiction). Write down the central idea and the details that support the central idea.

Locate all of the text features within a nonfiction text. Ask yourself, “Why did the author choose to use these text features? How do these features support me in understanding the text?”

Create two additional text features that you would add to the informational text that you read. For example, would you add a diagram or a chart? Why?

Keep a daily journal. Write about your daily learning and experiences. What did you enjoy the most about your day? Why did you enjoy this moment? What did you learn?

Create a 3-digit number and decompose it in 3 different ways (e.g. 142 is 1 hundred 40 tens and 2 ones; it is also 14 tens and 2 ones; it is also 1 hundred and 42 ones)

Determine if a number up to 40 is odd or even by using objects in your environment (toys, beans, macaroni, q-tips, etc.) Tell why it is an odd or even number.

Create your own addition/subtraction story and draw it or act it out for someone. (up to 1000) See if you can make it a two step problem (e.g. Two step problem examples) Draw a picture or use objects to represent the problem. Show how you solved one addition problem and one subtraction problem and make sure to include your number sentence/equation.

Practice adding “one more or ten more” as you set the table, fill a bag for snack, make trail mix or clean your room.

Practice subtracting one, or ten each time as you eat your snack, put your clean clothes away, clean up your toy pile, etc.

Find a collection of coins to count to determine the value up to $1.00. You can also use the pennies, nickels and dimes to practice skip counting.

Create your own math game and play it with a sibling or parent.

Create a daily schedule with times included. (Don’t forget to schedule exercise, and fun too!)

Find examples of graphs (newspapers, magazines, websites, evening news, packaging) and explain it to someone.

• Which category has more, fewer, or the same?

• Compare two categories and tell how many more or how many fewer.

2nd graders should become fluent with the facts within 20 (using strategies such as doubles such as 6 + 6, 4 + 4, 10 + 10 and using tens such as if” I know that 7 + 3 is 10, then 7 + 4 is one more than 10, or 11”). To practice use objects* a deck of cards, or have them make their own set of flashcards with index cards and drawings.

Start a weather journal to show your teacher when you get back to school. Record each day’s weather with appropriate weather symbols to match. Include: temperature (hot, cold, cool, warm), wind conditions (calm, breezy, windy), sky conditions (sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy), and precipitation (clear, rain, fog). Since you live in Texas, you may have many different symbols for each day!

Observe, describe and draw the appearance of the Moon each night or morning.

Make a list of the basic needs of plants and animals. What living and non-living things around a plant or an animal does it depend on for survival?

Ride your bike, skip a rope or bounce a ball. Talk about how force (a push or pull), motion (the change in an object’s position) and energy (what is needed to do work or cause change) work together during the activity. Where else do you see force, motion and energy in everyday life?

Keep a “Quarantine Calendar.” Write the date for each day you are home and draw pictures of what you did to keep busy each day. You did three things? Draw a picture for each! You can compare it with your classmates when you get back to school.

Talk about our role as a citizen of America, especially at a time like now. Why is it important to do the right thing? Draw a picture of yourself being a good citizen

Make a timeline of the life of someone in your family.

Draw a picture of something that happened in the past and something you hope to happen in the future.