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Welcome Second Graders!

Science

Animals

Mammal Match
Match the Mammals
Animal Classification Hangman
FInd the correct missing letters to complete the animal name
Exploring Amazing Animals
From amphibians to reptiles and mammals and all the classes in between this site teaches a lot that there is to learn about anim

Food and Science!

The Food Pyramid Blast Off Game
Learn about the food pyramid as you blast off into outer space
Dole's 5 a Day Food Games
Play games, get healthy, get moving, and even learn how to cook on this cool site
Plant Parts
Build a Salad to Learn about the Plant Parts

Social Studies

Mapping Skills

Mapping Skills Battleship Game
Play Battleship and learn to read a map
Learn to Read a Map with Arthur
Learn to read a map of Elwood City where Arthur lives

Mathematics

Math Is Fun!
Change Maker
Great for reviewing and practicing making change
Cool Math Games
Tons of math games for all ages and types of math
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
NLVM - all kinds of math manipulatives
Professor Garfield
All 4 core subjects are represented with Garfield, but students can chose to play the wonderful math games

Smartboard

Harvey's Homepage
Tons of wonderful smartboard activies for elementary students
Interactive Math Lessons
These are great interactive lessons that would be easy to turn into smartboard lessons. This site is a little advanced so it is
ABCya
Has kindergarten through 5th grade games and lessons and can easily be placed in a notebook file to be used with smartboard

Teacher Resources

Songs for Teaching
Songs for the classroom and all subjects!
Words Their Way
An Amazing literacy site for all types of classroom literacy lessons and activities
Mrs. Briggs PortaPortal
My second grade practicum teacher has an awesome PortaPortal and her students use it all the time!

SOL's

Jefferson Lab
great SOL practice questions. Have students quiz themselves!
Scope and Sequence
The VA Standards of Learning scope and sequence divided by grade level and providing several lessons

Cohort PortaPortals

Reading

Professor Garfield
This is a great site for reading skills presented in a fun way, through games, and the characters from Garfield Cartoons
Vocabulary Fun
Fun ways to learn vocabulary
Andersen Fairy Tales
Animated site with Hans Christian Andersen stories, great games activities, and interactive stories that even read to the studen
Starfall
A great site for beginning readers or students reading below grade level and needing a fun way to present reading. Great resourc
Scholastic Reading
Scholastic Book's Website for Reading Adventures