Summer Resources: Second Grade

Read by yourself, read to your teddy bear, read to your parents, read to your brothers and sisters.

Write lists. Write letters to real people or to story characters. Write make-believe stories. Write secret messages. Write facts about your favorite animal and make a diagram with labels. Write descriptions of places or objects or even of your pet. Write about your hopes and dreams.

Include trips, stories, poems, nature observations, your feelings, etc.

…and share your writings with others. Remember that we writers and readers appreciate an audience!

Have regular family reading times, cooking and eating times, discussion times, and playful times.

Try listening to books on tape.

Like Ranger Rick, Cricket, Spider, etc.

Practice reading and writing your sight words.
https://www.softschools.com/grades/1st_grade/reading/first_grade_sight_words/

Take nature walks.

…for math (addition, subtraction).

Practice counting coins, making change, telling time to hour and half hour (with an analog clock).

Play number dice games (Snakes & Ladders, etc.).

Play number games with cards (Allowance, Monopoly, etc.).

Schedule lots of “needs-nothing” time, with open space and no agenda. The summer is a time to connect as a family in a relaxed environment, enjoying being together!