First Week of School Grade 2 | No-Prep Worksheets
A five-day, no-prep back-to-school packet for 2nd grade covering math, literacy, writing, graphing, and social-emotional learning to build classroom community and assess student readiness
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A five-day, no-prep back-to-school packet for 2nd grade covering math, literacy, writing, graphing, and social-emotional learning to build classroom community and assess student readiness
An 'emergency lesson plan' (substitute-ready, cross-curricular) for grades 1-2 built around a non-fiction reading passage about Vikings, combining reading comprehension, creative writing/drawing, vocabulary syllable counting, basic math word problems, plural word forms, and a dot-to-dot activity.
Teaches elementary students about the 1801 discovery of the dwarf planet Ceres through a themed daily-history packet combining handwriting practice, reading comprehension, and writing.
A picture-book companion of interactive read-aloud activities supplementing 'How Chipmunk Got His Stripes' by Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac.
Provide comprehension and literary-analysis activities to accompany a read-aloud of the picture book 'Martin's Big Words' (about Martin Luther King Jr.) for elementary grades.
Teaches elementary students about the Battle of Stones River (Dec 31, 1862 - Jan 2, 1863) through a themed daily-history packet combining handwriting practice, reading comprehension, and writing.
Teaches elementary students about Julius Caesar's introduction of the leap year (45 BC) through a themed daily-history packet combining handwriting practice, reading comprehension, and writing.
A full-year (180-day) daily morning-work / bell-ringer routine for Grade 2, spiral-reviewing reading, language, and math skills every day.
An early-elementary interactive packet teaching basic planet facts through a true/false quiz, a matching activity, individual planet fact pages, and a creative writing prompt.
A themed activity packet introducing elementary students to Ancient Egypt through crafts, writing prompts, and resource/link pages covering hieroglyphs, the Nile, mummies, and the Sphinx.
Build phonics skills with R-consonant-blend words (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr) through anchor charts, word lists, tracing, matching, and picture/word flash cards.
Teach elementary students about Barack Obama's early life and presidency (first African-American U.S. President) and related social studies/Black history content through informational text and activities.
A Catholic-faith interactive reading packet telling the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, for use as an early-finisher or reading-station activity.
A 27-page printable end-of-year packet for PreK-2nd grade combining reflective writing, a keepsake craft, and word puzzles for the last days of school.
Religious-education emergent reader and activity packet telling the story of Saint Faustina and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, for early finisher buckets or reading stations.
A seasonal thematic teaching unit for lower elementary grades built around September/back-to-school themes, combining language, math, and science readiness activities.
A differentiated worksheet packet (two leveled sets: K-2 and 2nd-4th grade) built around a 'Tip, the Talking Turtle' story/YouTube video, covering reading comprehension, capitalization/sentence-correction, and creative writing.
A science unit that teaches the frog life cycle (egg, tadpole, froglet, frog) through a science journal, labeling diagrams, and sequencing activities.
An interactive reading packet retelling the Bible story of Jesus feeding the 5,000, paired with a large set of literacy and comprehension activities for early readers.
An activity packet teaching about Thurgood Marshall's life, legal career, and the structure of the U.S. Supreme Court, with differentiated reading passages and response worksheets.
A cross-curricular book companion/mini-unit built around the picture book 'Four Feet, Two Sandals' (by Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed), integrating reading, vocabulary, writing, social studies, and math activities tied to the book's refugee-camp setting.
A Grade 1-2 cross-curricular unit teaching about teeth and oral hygiene through a non-fiction reading passage and follow-up literacy, math, and discussion activities.
A comprehensive book study unit for 'Flat Stanley: The Mount Rushmore Calamity', providing comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, and assessment materials organized by chapter.
A sentence-completion and vocabulary writing activity contrasting a well-behaved dog's at-home routine with a badly-behaved 'naughty dog's' at-home routine, ending with a pandemic-era 'stay home/social distancing' safety message.