The Letter A Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Alphabet Songs Collection - Classic will help your kids gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to these ABC Songs.
The Alphabet Songs Pack - Animated will help support your visual learners gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to this song.
While listening to the Seasons Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the seasons of the year while listening to a catchy song. Here we go, oh, seasons of the year! Your kids will be singing this song about the seasons over and over. Bring joy into your classroom with…
The Letter B Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter G Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
Using the Counting By Fives Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 5s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
The Letter M Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter E Song teaches the short E and long E sounds, uppercase and lowercase letter e, vocabulary words with e, and letter E handwriting practice.
The Seasons Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about the seasons of the year. This is a fun way for kids to learn the seasons. With this seasons song, your kids can learn about Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. While listening to the Seasons…
The Mammal Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about mammals. This animated music video teaches that mammals breathe air with lungs, are warm-blooded, have fur or hair, give birth to live young and feed their babies milk. While watching the Mammal Song, students learn…
The Letter D Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
While watching the Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the process of the water cycle by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
The Letter F Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The I Song (Animated Music Video) will help students recognize the sight word I when it is repeated, spelled, and used in sentences put to a catchy tune.
The Letter C Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Matter Song teaches all about matter and the states of matter. With this states of matter song, students learn about solid, liquid, and gas, as well as the phases of matter, properties of matter, physical changes, chemical changes, and so much more. Matter has mass and takes up space.…
Growing readers, growing mathematicians
Second grade is where skills get fast and flexible. In math, kids become fluent with facts within 20, add and subtract within 100 with regrouping, and learn place value up to 1,000: 482 = 400 + 80 + 2. They also count money, tell time to five minutes and measure in inches and centimeters. In reading, kids master vowel teams, read sight words on the spot and read with expression. Writing grows too: complete sentences, plural nouns, pronouns and editing their own work. The best part? Watching a 2nd grader read a whole chapter book they chose themselves.
Second graders love to show what they know. These moves give them the chance.
Write a sentence with three mistakes and fix one out loud, explaining why. Let kids find the other two. Then hand out the fixing sentences page so they can play editor on their own.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withFixing Sentences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Play the vowel teams game for five minutes at the start of reading, every day for two weeks. Short daily practice keeps ai, ee and oa sharp while you move on to new patterns.
Why it works: short practice spread over several days beats one long session, according to a large review of learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withVowel Teams GameGamesOpen it →Before solving a word problem, kids draw what is happening: 14 apples, then 6 more. Partners explain their drawing to each other before writing the equation. Pictures and talk catch most "wrong operation" mistakes.
Why it works: using clear, consistent math words out loud is one of the U.S. Department of Education's recommendations for elementary math.
Try it withAddition and Subtraction Word Problems WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Second graders are ready for games with a little challenge.
WorksheetsHide treats around the room and give directions: "Take 5 steps north, then 3 east!"
Open Compass Rose Worksheet →
GamesKids answer quick questions about dates and days of the week in a speedy game.
Open Calendar Game →
WorksheetsKids swap items and use possessive pronouns to return them: "This is her pencil!"
Open Possessive Pronouns Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Letter A Song (Original Music Video), Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) and Alphabet Songs (Classic Video Collection).
By the end of 2nd grade, kids should add and subtract within 100, know addition and subtraction facts within 20 from memory, understand place value to 1,000, count money and tell time to five minutes.
Second graders typically read early chapter books with growing fluency. They decode vowel teams and longer words, read many sight words automatically, and can retell and answer questions about what they read.
Read together every day, practice math facts with quick games, and let your child help count money or measure while cooking. Short, regular practice works best.
They write complete sentences, short paragraphs, opinion pieces and simple stories. They also learn to capitalize, punctuate and edit their own work.
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