Any ideas for at home projects for my 2nd graders? Help please!

lovemymaddy

Hi girls! I'm really lucky this year to have many students that are very, very capable. Regular homework isn't really cutting it a lot of the time and I have already done a lot of differentiating for them but I am looking for some week long at home homework projects for them. They can be math, language arts, or research based. Any creative ideas? Anything you remember from being a kid that you enjoyed?

Thanks!!!

msmanik

Have them do a "book in a bag" report. They put items in a bag to help retell the story. They can be real items or things they draw and cut out. My kids loved this project last year!

Asquared

wow, never had that problem! I've only worked in title 1 schools.  Create a game using whatever they have at home to master math facts?  Make a book review/poster for whatever book they are reading?  make a puzzle using spelling words and complete it- https://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

 

lmpdjc

When Paige was that age she did a project that we really had a lot of fun with.  It was "Make an instrument".  It had to make some kind of sound.  We really went all out and made a guitar, she loved it!

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I taught 2nd grade up until this year. We did a lot of work with dice/dominoes/number cards (0-9). I'd make activities that they could do to practice pretty much everything we covered in math with just those things and the activities could vary in difficulty based on the kid. For example, roll dice to make a 2 (or 3, 4 etc) digit number and then roll again to make another. Add them up. If I can find the files I can try to message you them.

MCC1010

I know this is late but my nieces loved Flat Stanley. They colored him in and cut him out. He was laminated and everyone sent their Flat Stanley to someone in another city. That person took pictures of him around their city and sent him back. The kids them brought the pictures and gave a presentation to the class about the city Flat Stanley went to.

megandjohn08

I do Literacy Bags, they take a lot of work, but worth it!

I have a bunch of themes (teeth, apples, shapes, abc, Arthur, Clifford, fish, etc.) and each bag includes: books relating to the theme, a stuffed animal, a snack, journal, task sheet and materials needed for each task.

Some things on the task card include:  use your goldfish snack and graph how many of each color you have, write about what you and Clifford (stuffed animals) did together, go on a shape hunt, word/pictures sorts, and so on.