Word Work Ideas Go on a word hunt! Make a list of words for each of our spelling patterns. Make as many words as you can from the letters in MANZ ELEMENTARY. Add a Conjunction Word Work Packet Fixing Sentences Find the Capitals Highlight the Noun Noun Person, Place, or Thing Conjunction Sentences Noun Scavenger Hunt Noun, Adjective, Verb and Pronoun Search Apostrophe Sort 1 Apostrophe Sort 2 Noun Sort Fix the Story 1 Fix the Story 2 Adding Commas Noun Coloring Wordable (Use the letters in the boxes to spell words. Letters in boxes must touch to go together. They can touch diagonally.) second grade sight words about used does soon blue very wear there children woman before two any nice easy until friend dear every wasn’t great you’re read isn’t color haven’t right won’t hear didn’t write many white again wrote close maybe along says sure busy been school could off buy little Reading Ideas Read a fiction story and complete a story map to retell the characters, setting, beginning, middle and end. Read a fiction story and create an alternate ending. Write what you think would be a better ending and illustrate it! Read a fiction story and complete a story map to retell the characters, setting, problem, and solution Read a nonfiction story and complete a main idea map with 3 details and a summary of what you learned. Preventing Cavities Passage and Questions Penguins Passage and Questions Novel Study Choice Board Hippo Passage and Questions Recess is Good for Kids Passage and Questions Text Features Worksheet Book Review Book Review File Foldable Tabs Project Grouchy Girl Passage and Questions Exercise Passage and Questions Dinosaurs Passage and Questions Read a passage and answer the questions that go with it. Healthy Snack Passage and Questions Writing Ideas Write a letter to a senior citizen. You could tell them about yourself, ask them about the best day of their life, ask them questions, etc. Animal Research Project #2 Journal Prompts Writing Choice Prompts Math Ideas Math Daily Sheet On the spinners, use a paperclip and pencil to come up with math problems. You could add, subtract, or use the numbers to make a word problem Clock Practice Word Problems Coin Review Extra Ideas Design an amusement park! Create a map for it to include rides, concession stands, and anything else you can think of to make it fun! Make sure to label your map! Create a brochure or poster to promote your park! Research a person on Pebble Go. Create a poster to teach us about this person. Clean the house while you dance with music! Challenge yourself to read a certain number of books within a day Go for a walk with your friends or family. Make dinner with your family. Explore outside. :) Online Resources Mystery Science https://mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planning Storyline Online https://www.storylineonline.net/ Fluency & Fitness https://fluencyandfitness.com/register/school-closures/ Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/learnathome Discovery Kids https://www.discoveryeducation.com/coronavirus-response/ Zearn Math https://www.zearn.org/ Brain Pop shorturl.at/jltR1 YouTube Art for Kids Hub Manz Online Library Resources Go to: shorturl.at/fuFI2 INCLUDES: TumbleBooks Pebble Go Highlights Kids & MANY Read Aloud Sites Spelling Patterns Hunt oa ow ee ea ue ew igh oi oy oo ou ow ar ir or ur Spelling Patterns Hunt aw au -s -es -ing -ed -er -est -ful -ness -less re- un- silent e name: ___________________________ triangle spelling Choose 10 words from our word list and spell them out one letter at a time. ex am ple : s sm sma smar smart name: ___________________________ abc order Choose 10 words from our word list and put them in ABC order. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z words ab c order ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ name: ___________________________ rainbow write Choose 10 words from our word list. Roll a die and see what color to write them in! red orange yellow green blue purple words rainbow col or ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ name: ___________________________ word search words Put 10 of our words in a word search for someone to find! ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ name: ___________________________ color code Write 10 words from our list with a pencil. Trace the consonants in red and the vowels in blue. __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ name: ___________________________ number tiles Choose 10 of our words and see which word has the most points! a n 1 7 b o 9 6 c p 3 2 d q 4 e 9 r 5 8 f s 3 4 g t 1 2 h 5 u 1 i v j 8 3 k 3 w 1 x l 2 9 y 4 8 m z words points ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ 1 10 name: ___________________________ silly sentences words Choose 10 words from our list with a pencil. Write each word in a silly sentence. ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ name: ___________________________ follow the swirl Draw a swirly line and fill in each space with your words. Doodle Art Alley © Doodle Art Alley © Doodle Art Alley © Compare two settings from the text. Write an interview for a main character of the book. Ask at least 5 questions and write the answers to the questions, as the character would respond. 2014 Teaching With a Mountain View Draw a picture that illustrates the main setting in the story. Write two sentences that describe the settings. Create a graphic organizer comparing and contrasting two characters in the story. Write at least 4 predictions about what you think will happen later in the story (or after the end). Why do you think these things will happen? Choose a character and imagine you walked into his room. What would you find in his room, and why? Write a test/quiz for the book. Include 10 questions. Create an answer key. Make connections to the story, including a connection to your life, to another book you have read, and to the real world. Pick 5 events. Write cause and effect statements for those events. Pick five vocabulary words you found interesting. Use them in a different sentence. Suggest a solution to a problem from the text. Pick a scene that is described in detail in the story. Draw a detailed picture and then write your own description of what is happening. Compare one of the main settings of the story to the setting where you live. Draw a picture of the main character, and then write ten words that describe the main character. Write a poem about two main events in the story. Design a comic strip that shows the sequence of events in the story. Novel Study Choice Board Reading Log date ti tle name: _______________________ pages date ti tle pages Tab 1 My Book Title: _________________________ Author: ___________________ A Brief Summary: ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ © 2016 Shelly Rees: Appletastic Tab 2 The Main Characters _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ main characters from this book are: _______________ _______________ 3 _______________ © 2016 Shelly Rees: Appletastic Tab 3 Main Events Solution: __________________ __________________! __________________ Problem: __________________ __________________ Main Event 4: __________________ __________________! __________________ Main Event 1: __________________ __________________! __________________ Main Event 3: __________________ __________________! __________________ Main Event 2: __________________ main events from this book are: __________________ __________________! The __________________! © 2016 Shelly Rees: Appletastic Tab 4 The The Setting Setting of this book is: _____________________ Time _________________________________ _____________________! Place _________________________________! © 2016 Shelly Rees: Appletastic Tab 5 My An Illustration of my favorite part: My Review _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ Why you should or shouldn’t read it: Review of this book is: I rate this book: My favorite part: ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ © 2016 Shelly Rees: Appletastic ____________________________________________________________________ MY RATING Author: ____________________________________ Illustrator: _________________________________ SETTING CHARACTER My favorite character was: __________________________ 4 Words to describe this character are: ______________ ______________ Where does the story take place? __________________________ 4 Words to describe the setting: ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ My favorite part of the story was: __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ This book has been recommended by: ______________________________ Animal Research Writing Checklist Pages Cover Table of Contents Introduction ____________________________ ____________________________ These pages included ____________________________ Topic sentence 3 or more sentences ____________________________ Glossary About the Author TEXT FEATURES 2nd Grade Goals EDITING I included these text features: Heading on each page Illustrations Glossary I also included some of these text features: (3 or more) Map Caption Labels Bold Words Capitalization Punctuation Spaces Spelling (Red Words & Spelling Patterns) Neatness Added details Doodle Art Alley © Jackson was playing a soccer game. He scored 43 goals. His teammate scored 48 goals. The other team scored 35 points. How many more points did Jackson’s team score? Nathan read 62 fiction books and 14 non-fiction books. Miguel read 53 fiction books and 12 non-fiction books. How many books did the boys read altogether? Zachariah was playing on his tablet. He had 57 apps. He deleted 13 of the apps. Then, he downloaded 32 more apps. How many apps are on Zachariah’s tablet? Daniel was playing Beyblades. He had 62 Beyblades. He lost 14 of them. Then, his dad gave him 35 more. How many Beyblades does Daniel have? Jelena bought 53 new LOL dolls at Target. Some of the dolls were Winter Disco. 14 of the dolls were Confetti Pop dolls and 25 were Glam Glitter dolls. How many were Winter Disco dolls? There are 37 people on a commuter train. 30 people got off at the first stop. 10 people got on at the second stop. How many people were on the train then? Sean saved $39. He got $14 for his birthday. Sean spent $12 at the movies. How much money did Sean have then? Nina had 21 stuffed animals. She received 12 more from her friends. She donated 15. How many stuffed animals does she have now? Samantha earned $182 cleaning her grandmother’s house last month. She went to the mall and spent all her money!! She bought a pair of jeans, a $56 sweater, and a $61 pair of shoes. How much were the jeans? The telephone at the family store rang 156 times in the morning, a bunch during lunch, and 201 times that afternoon. During the whole day the phone rang 562 times. How many times did it ring at lunch? As a group the K-Kids collected 473 soda can tabs. 135 of the tabs came form Coke cans and the rest from Dr. Pepper cans. How many more tabs came from the Dr. Pepper cans than the Coke cans? The Ricky family drove 224 miles for a trip to the beach. At lunch they drove 17 miles to the nearest restaurant and later that night they drove 36 miles to their hotel. How many miles did they drive that day? Farmer Brown was selling his crops off the back of his truck. He had picked 461 vegetables this morning. On the top of the pile were 176 turnips. He also had some carrots. On the bottom were 282 potatoes. How many carrots were in the pile?
