Grade 2 Links

LANGUAGE ARTS

1. Check out Tumble Books - an online 'read aloud' for students to listen to.

Click on the Tumblebooks tab near the bottom of the page:

http://wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/childrens/funandgames.asp

2. Starfall and early phonics

http://www.starfall.com

3. Alphabet letter recognition game

http://www.teacherled.com/resources/alphabet/alphabetspeedload.html

4. Spelling City

http://www.spellingcity.com/seketcheson/

5. Story starter ideas

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

6. Grammar Blast

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/

7. Popcorn words: practice 'must know' words

http://www.fun4thebrain.com/English/popcornWords.html

MATH


Adding Bigger Numbers up to 100

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/add/add.html

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/additiontest.html

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/games/levelthree/KC_Blast_Off.html

http://www.mathmastery.com/cyberchallenge/

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/add_it_up.php

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/alien/alien.html

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/addition-with-pictures-sums-to-20

http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/apples/savetheApples.htm

http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/shuttleLaunch/shuttleLaunch.htm

2D and 3D shapes

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/maths/maerdy_2d/frames.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/shapes/play/popup.shtml

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=70

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/14/m3_14_00_x.swf

http://www.mathplayground.com/buildingblocks.html

http://www.mathplayground.com/matching_shapes.html

Addition and subtraction

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/addition.php

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.ictgames.com/doubles.htm

December: Subitizing

In the new year, students will be working on addition and subtraction strategies for adding numbers 1 -18. To warm up, students should have a strong understanding of number relationships. The following activities will help them develop their number sense:

1. Ten Frame Games

2. Math Baseball: Addition and Subtraction



November: Patterning

We are moving into patterning. Students should be able to recognize patterns, extend a pattern, define what an 'attribute' is and verbalize what the 'core' of their pattern is. Check out these links to help your student extend their patterns!

1. Solve the number sequence. Students need to figure out what the number pattern is (challenging activity)

2. Pattern Mania

3. Pattern Blocks

In math, we are working on our Number Sense. This means skip-counting to 100 by 2's, 5's and 10's. 
We will be working with hundreds charts and number lines, as well as other manipulatives.

Check out these links to help your student master their numbers! 

1. Balloon Pop Skip Count

2. Give the dog a bone - using the hunderds chart to find numbers

3. Ghost skip counting by 5's - fill in the missing number

4. Color in the hundreds chart - create your own skip count pattern

5. http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/skip-counting-sequences

6.  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/count/index.html

7. http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/spookyseq/spookycb2.html

8. http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SplatSquares/splatre100.html

Try singing one of our current favourite songs! 

SOCIAL STUDIES 


Our focus for the Fall will be looking at a Prairie Community and developing map skills.

Check out the following links to help support your students learning: 

1. A Prairie CommunityUsing cardinal directions

Images of the Prairies

Animals that live in the prairies

Adventure Island - learning about map symbols

Canada treasure trek
2. An Arctic Community

Inuit Communities

Arctic Animals

National Geographic Arctic Animals

Build an Inukshuk

Journey to Kitigaaryuk

Travel to Nunavut

3. An Acadian Community

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Acadie/index_e.html

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-2000-e.html

http://www.acadievivante.ca/en/Themes/Legends_Folktales/Old_Lady_Dollard

SCIENCE


Boats and Buoyancy

http://www.wonderville.ca/asset/buoyancy-and-boats

http://www.wonderville.ca/asset/fishing-with-hayley

http://www.nmmc.co.uk/downloads/boat_game.swf

http://www.brainpopjr.com/science/forces/sinkorfloat/preview.weml

Small Crawling and Flying Insects

1. Butterflies

http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/life-cycle

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/monarch-butterflies/

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Lepidoptera/

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/bugs-kids/butterflies-kids/

2. Bees

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/honeybees/

http://kids.discovery.com/tell-me/animals/bug-world/bee-world

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/13-categories/animals/21-bees.html

3. Scorpions

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/scorpions/

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/scorpion/

http://www.ducksters.com/animals/scorpion.php

4. Spiders

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/spider.html

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Araneae/

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/black-widows/

http://kidshealth.org/kid/ill_injure/bugs/black_widow.html

5. Tarantulas

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/tarantulas/

http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/insects/tarantula

http://www.ducksters.com/animals/tarantula.php


6. Parasites

http://wonderwise.unl.edu/12parasi/kidactivity/index2.htm

http://kids.discovery.com/games/just-for-fun/so-you-want-a-pet-parasite


7. Wasps

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Hymenoptera/

http://www.ducksters.com/animals/yellow_jacket_wasp.php

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/wasp/

8. Daddy long legs

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/bugs-kids/spider-daddylonglegs-kids/

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Pholcidae/

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/149524/daddy-longlegs

9. Ladybugs

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/ladybug/

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/kids/animal-facts/lady_bug.asp

http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/insects/ladybug


Hot and Cold Temperatures

http://www.gpbkids.org/countonit/2ndgrade/measure/ http://www.softschools.com/measurement/temperature/games/thermometer/ http://videos.howstuffworks.com/animal-planet/28408-fooled-by-nature-polar-bears-body-insulation-video.htm http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/ http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/animals.html http://www.highlightskids.com/science-questions/why-do-animals-have-fur

Magnetism

Our next science unit will focus on magnetism. Check out the following links! 

1. Magnets and Springs 

2. All about magnetism 



We are beginning our unit on Liquids. Check out the following links!

1. Explore the Water Cycle

2. Can you identify what is a solid, a liquid or a gas? 

3. See what happens when you add heat to or cool down different objects