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Looking for MORE to keep your Second Grader Thinking?? Try some of these activities:
Our friends who require enriching activities enjoy our logic puzzles. One game we like is SET. It can also be played online. Here are the directions if you scroll down. You can play one puzzle free a day here: Daily Set Puzzle
There is another free version here from the Daily News. It starts you out with an easy version and lets you play a few harder ones too.
MORE IDEAS COMING SOON!
ONLINE PUZZLE RESOURCES: Free Sudoku Puzzles for Kids
Anything Tangrams! In this one you Print Your Own Pieces and Solve.
Online Boggle Puzzle (make as many words as you can!) You can change the amount of letters to make it easier or harder.
Be creative! Make a board game, use things from around the house to create something new.
ORIGAMI - Check videos on YouTube for easy and fun models! All you need is paper cut into a square.
DRAWING - Lots of YouTube drawing videos that kids can do along with the artist. We like these ones on ART HUB
Make a Google Slideshow to teach us about something you know. Insert pictures and change fonts. We'd love to show the class.
Check out old Mystery Doug videos on YouTube and GoNoodles on Youtube for a good stretch and interesting science facts.
RESEARCH: Choose a topic you are interested in (Flamingos, ping pong, Russia, etc.) Look on the internet through a kids search engine or at all of the online resources we have available to learn more about it, including:
Raz Kids (use the passwords inside your green folder)
EPIC books. Our class code is tey0526 (only during school hours between 8 am and 4 pm)
What Can we Do on a Rainy Day or Instead of Homework?
What Can we Do on a Rainy Day or Instead of Homework?
Practice your Skills! Learn a new piano song, dance or Martial Arts move
Try out a simple science experiment at home
Build something with blocks, legos or your favorite material. Try to solve a problem with it.
Craft kits of all kinds from art stores help creativity and fine motor skills!
2nd grade is a Fabulous time for lots of Board Games! Mrs. Piccirillo's Favorite Family Board Games:
Sequence (different varieties), Mancala, Uno, Rat-a-Tat Cat, Battleship, Connect 4, Peaceable Kingdom's Cooperative Games, Sleeping Queens, Phase 10, LRC, The Allowance Game, Boggle, Apples to Apples, Scrabble, Clue, Monopoly
100 Piece Puzzles, Chess and Checkers
More Advanced: (They make Kid Versions of many of these) Risk, Settler's of Catan, Carcassone , Ticket to Ride
We like card games like Cribbage that require addition practice
Learn to cook something. Do the measuring part yourself and talk about what those numbers mean
Keep a journal of events or your thoughts and feelings. You can even draw your ideas.
Read. Everything. All the time. Everywhere.
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