2nd Grade Activities
Looking for games and activities to keep your child busy? Second grade is all about real world applications - from math activities that teach about money, to games that develop reading comprehension, we've got fresh ideas to keep learning going long after the school bell rings.
Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores - out of paper mache! Imagine the hours of craft and puppet show entertainment, not to mention creative play essential to your child's development.
With just a few ordinary household items, you can make a creative bouquet together, and have a great time learning about plant biology in the process!
More activities for second grade:
Capture Fall Leaves in Stained Glass
Have you ever looked at that mounting pile of leaves out your window and wondered what you are going to do with all of them? This activity provides a solution, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.
Make a Rain Stick!
This project, making a rain stick, is all about the sound of rain and opens the door for discussing different cultures, weather, cycles of growth, renewal, and life.
Make a Number Game
This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers. He’ll be using all of these skills in the middle grades, when he uses numbers, decimals, fractions, and percents to describe operations, computations, measurements, and patterns
Play the Number Sentence Game
Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols. So shuffle the cards and let the game begin! First player to make the most âTrueâ number sentences wins!
Pitch and Hit Data
Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely. Combining an analytical activity, like graphing, with real world experiences shows your child that math is all around him.
Be a Temperature Collector!
By second grade, kids are just beginning to learn how to read a thermometer--a skill your child will use throughout his school years and throughout his adult life.
Play Perimeter 200
This at-home game gives your child practice using a step-by-step approach to finding the perimeter of simple objects he finds in his own room. It’s a great way to practice math skills together!
Turkey Trivia
Turkey Trivia is an exciting game that your child can make and play with the whole family after Thanksgiving dinner. Put your second grader in charge of the game and she'll learn even more!
Find the Missing Digit
Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised as a game!
Write a Cliffhanger
Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger," and Halloween provides the perfect excuse to put pen to paper. The thought that you can "tease" your readers (without getting in trouble for it!) gets every child excited about writing.
