Second Grade Enrichment Activities
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- Language Arts
- Words Their Way - individualized spelling
- Reader’s Theater - Fairy Tales
- Integrate Ant story with live ant farm
- Reading Comprehension Strategies
- Shared Reading/Guided Reading
- Reading Counts
- Creative Book Reports
- Animal Report - research an animal in the computer lab as well as look for books in the library
- Use a “storyboard” format to plan edit their stories before they “publish” them
- Math
- Enrichment Team - focus has been math (work with high group on problem solving)
- Math games to learn addition/subtraction strategies
- Hands on manipulative work
- Timed test (usually have a couple of kids pass division)
- Play money they can spend
- Set class goals for everyone to pass so many facts by a certain day
- Flashcards and games to help each other practice math facts
- Enrichment Time
- Science
- Field trip to Clark Planetarium
- Animal Report (research paper, visual aide)
- Gravity experiments - which hits first?
- Rock demonstrations - igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
- Observe life cycle of butterfly
- Live butterflies, ladybugs, ant farm
- Volcano - each student gets to make their own volcano
- Blubber making when learning about animals
- Moon and Star Journal
- Social Studies
- Traditions report (present a favorite family tradition)
- School helpers come visit
- Jr. Achievement
- Map Activities - atlases and other
- Pledge of Allegiance in American Sign Language and learn the history and meaning of the pledge.
- “Meet the Family” at the beginning of the year
- Art/Music/PE/etc.
- Thanksgiving Songs
- Patriotic Songs/Activities
- Guests to teach about music
- Play clarinet
- Two self portraits (beginning and end of year to see change and progress)
- Sugar Eggs
- Songs to fit curriculum and seasons
- Special Programs (ie debate, history fair, etc.)
- Talent Show
- Awards Assembly
- End of year readers theater for parents
- “The Mitten” skit
- Student Projects
- Service Project - class makes quilts to donate to a homeless shelter.
- Other
- Reading Buddies with older grades
- Treasure Box
- Store
- Language Arts