Great Books for 2nd Graders

Check out the link below for some great books to interest your child!

Favorite Books for 2nd Graders via GreatSchools.org

Solids, Liquids, and Gases...Oh My!

Please allow your child to play around on these websites for extra practice/to help further understand the 3 states of matter and how substances change their state.

BBC States of Matter

Harcourt School Particles of Matter

ThinkQuest States of Matter

Mrs. C.'s Presentation on States of Matter

Engineering Station

Please visit the websites below to learn more about engineering and Rube-Goldberg and how you can create and build your own creative machines:

Rube Goldberg

PBS Kids Goldberger to Go

Tom's Trap-o-matic: Build a trap to catch Jerry!

Dynamic Systems Physics Game

FOSS Web's Rube Goldberg Burglar Catcher

Ed Heads Simple Machines Tool Shed

Simple Machines Learning Site

Have fun learning, creating, and engineering!

BRAIN BREAKS!

As you probably know, we recently began taking some "brain breaks" once or twice a day, where we get up and move around, dance, and act silly for 5 minutes or so.  Well, below you can find the links to these fun Brain Break videos that was put together by another teacher blogger!  The kids begged me to put these on the blog so they can do some of them at home, too!  :)

Click the links below to enjoy!

20 Brain Breaks from Teach. Train. Love

20 MORE Brain Breaks from Teach. Train. Love


Happy ALMOST Friday!  :)

Weather and Map Skills Websites!

While our weather unit has come to an end, here are some fun, interactive sites where your child can continue his/her learning!

E-Learning for Kids has a great game where you can practice reading the thermometer and predict weather:

Tony the Weather Forecaster

 Explore the 4 parts of the water cycle with Explorer Dan:

The Water Cycle

Ed-Heads has a game where you can learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves:

Weather Activities  

 
National Geographic has some Map Skills games:

Nat Geo Map Games

Lots of Maps Games--Try some out:

Maps Games


I hope these websites will provide you with some fun learning time, 2A kiddos!

Photos of our awesome Weather Lapbooks and 3-D U.S. Maps to come soon!

Listen to Reading Links

Students, you may choose from the following websites during your Listen to Reading Daily:

Tumblebooks
Log-in information on computer.

StoryLine

Starfall Fiction and Non-fiction

Starfall Folk Tales

Starfall Comics

Nat Geo Kids

Mighty Books

BookPop

StoryPop

Storytime for Me

some fun back-to-school downloads.

Hey guys!

Just thought I would share some fun links I came across today:

Back to school sticker labels:

http://familyfun.go.com/printables/craft-templates/printable/bts-sticker-lables/bts-sticker-lables.html

(Print them out onto sticky printer paper for some fun labels!)

This book belongs to labels:

http://familyfun.go.com/printables/craft-templates/printable/bts-labels/bts-labels.html

Cute! Lunchbox survey:

http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-love-back-to-school.html

(Scroll down a little to see the survey--so cute!)

Lunch notes for every day of the week:

http://www.oliebollen.com/funstuff/index.html

Cute book labels:

http://www.oliebollen.com/funstuff/index.html

Hope you all had a great weekend despite the rain!

--Mrs. C.