grade 2
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SEL: Listen, Forgive, and Say Sorry
Emotions can be really sticky in any relationship
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- 3 activities to help your child navigate difficult and often times painful situations:
Body language for listening, steps in apologizing (with script the child makes), and exercise to let go of hurts and forgive.
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Fun: Me Jar
Fun, crafty, and helps boost self-esteem. A triple win!
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- Questions to help your child start brainstorming positive self talk and messages to put in their Me Jar.
- 4 different templates to use for the words to go into the me jar (your child can use the one they love).
- Instructions for how to wrap a Me Jar.
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Grammar: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms
This activity is fun because it uses crosswords to learn.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- Answer sheets.
- Both synonym and antonym puzzles come in an easier and harder version.
- 3 activities: identify the homonym and draw a picture/write the homonym, synonyms crossword and antonyms crossword.
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Writing: Nonfiction Hamburger Writing
We learn together, step by step, how to form a paragraph, using the hamburger model
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE” WITH THIS LESSON.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives.
- Model to walk student through this concept.
- 2nd grade writing rubric included!!
- 4 activities: step by step guide through bear paragraph, gathering evidence, writing in the hamburger structure (guide for placement), and writing a paragraph.
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digital possusm
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- Answer sheets
- 4 activities, however, not all are necessary. Color the fact or opinion, create 3 fact and 3 fictional statements (to target attention, activity sheets included for: bats, cars, and dinosaurs)
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Comprehension: 3 W’s and Cause and Effect
Use graphic organizers to identify the who, what, and where of “The Possum’s Tale.” We also take cause and effect to another level by adding the emotion involved.
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE” WITH THIS LESSON.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives.
- Answers vary, however, cause and effect answer sheet is given for ideas.
- 3 activities: the who, what, and where, write 5 events that occurred in the story, and cause + emotion + effect.