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Welcome M.E.S. 2nd Graders!

Great Websites! Some of our favorites!

Gamequarium Junior
Choose from hundreds of games!
Little Explorers Dictionary
National Geographic for Kids
ABC Ya!
Great Math & Reading Activities
IXL--AWESOME Math Practice!!!
This site covers our 2nd grade math concepts! Great for extra practice at home!
Star Fall Reading
Try reading a story out loud to practice your fluency!
Dance Mat Typing
Keyboarding Skills
Storyline Online
Hear a celebrity read a story!
Spelling City
Click "s-test" to take a spelling test with your trick words and play fun games!
Tumblebooks
plainfieldecc pword-books

Trophies Reading

Theme 1 -- Being Me

Punctuation Penguins
Sentence Clubhouse
Narrative Elements
Switcheroo Zoo
Make New Animals
Bullfrog Video
Cool Chameleon Video
Baby Chameleons
What is a chameleon?
Learn about these color-changing creatures

Theme 2 -- Helping Hands

Theme 3 -- Our World

Theme 4 - Imagine That!

Synonym Balloons
Antonym Jeopardy
Synonym Jeopardy
Cause and Effect-JB
Verb Practice
Are the verbs in the past, present, or future?
Periods, Exclamations, and Questions-EE
Nouns and Verbs-

Theme 5 -- Neighborhood News

Theme 6 -- Travel Time

Phonics Fun

Grammar

Sentence Clubhouse
Magical Capitals
Punctuation Penguins
Find the Sentences
Parts of Sentences Quiz
Statements & Questions Quiz
Grammar Tutorial
Learn about nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Noun Explorer
Adjective Adventure
Verbs in Space

Math

Addition and Subtraction Facts Practice

Place Value/Number Sense

Use base 10 blocks
Shark Pool Place Value
Place Value with Professor Duck von Fly
Start at level 1 first
Build Numbers
Gumball Surprise
Compare numbers to collect the gumballs

Shapes

Money

Counting Mixed Coins
Money Drop
Robot Money
Learn to count money
Go Shopping!
Buy foods with coins
Counting Money Basic Game
Fruit shoot coins
Level 1
Fruit shoot coins
Level 2
Cents of Color
Check out AND color every state quarter

Measurement

Telling Time

Time Works
Put the numbers on the clock face
Willy the Watchdog
Play this game with a buddy!
Days & Dates
Elapsed Time Game
Answer each question and earn $
Clock Game
Stop the Clock
Level 2
Stop the Clock
Level 3
Stop the Clock
more challenging level

Graphing

Fractions

Probability

Special Events

Fire Safety

Be Fire Safe!
Help find dangers in the house
What should you do in a fire drill?

Dr. Seuss

Holidays & Celebrations

Learn about the first Thanksgiving
Columbus Day
Chinese New Year
Groundhog's Day
Constitution for Kids
Groundhogs at Hog Haven
Listen to sounds, watch videos, see photos
Groundhog Facts
from National Geographic Kids

Seasons

Make a Flake
Create your own snowflake!

Units

Great Science Games

Bats

Penguins

Whales

Learn about Whales on Enchanted Learning
Whale-o-pedia
Cool Facts & Fun Games
Whales: voices of the sea

Polar Animals

Polar Bear Jigsaw Puzzle
Try starting at the simple level
Photos of Arctic Animals
from National Geographic
Arctic Animal Memory Game
Try easy, medium, or hard levels
Polar Bear Cam
Check out this video footage!

Nutrition / Food Pyramid

Help keep Ben healthy
Food Sort
Scroll down to "Healthy Eating"
My Plate Match Game
Sort the foods into the correct food group
Food Concentration
Learn about the Food Pyramid
My Pyramid Blast-off!

Snakes/Reptiles

States of Matter

What is waterproof?
Learn about different materials
Gases around us
Changing states of matter
Experiment with boiling and melting water
Solid, Liquid, Gas Memory

Soil

Dinosaurs

Rainforests

Oceans/Mystic

Continents

Continent Match Up
Continents Quizzes
Start with the tutorial
Global Trek
Travel Around the World!

Asia

Walk the Great Wall of China

South America

Macchu Picchu
Learn about this ancient city of Peru

Africa

Europe

North America

Antarctica

Australia