Perfect for children who need additional practice or want to advance their skills, these activity books help children practice important grade-level skills and stay on track while they are learning at home. The colorful and clever activities motivate children to engage with the lesson and become active learners!
Each at-home-learning bundle is aligned to current standards and includes:
- Four full-color Skill Sharpeners activity books that practice essential subjects such as math, reading, language, and science. (144 full-color pages each)
- A downloadable parent guide packed with tips and teaching support, including organizing a daily schedule, fun hands-on activity ideas, reading strategies, math models, and suggestions for helping children manage stress and share their feelings. (30 pages)
- Assessment pages to build test-taking skills and confidence.
The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 2, includes:
Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 2
Each unit focuses on a wonderfully illustrated text selection that is followed by a variety of activities to help children practice fluency, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, structural analysis, phonics, and writing. Skill Sharpeners: Reading provides 15 motivating stories to capture readers’ attention. For example:
- “Peanut Butter”
- “The Case of the Missing Apples”
- “The Ugly Duckling”
- “Elephants”
- “A Visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium”
Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 2
Theme-based math units practice foundational skills! Each unit ends with a “Test Your Skills” activity that gives children a feeling of accomplishment. Designed to practice skills that have already been introduced and mastered, the grade 2 lessons include:
- count within 1,000
- add and subtract within 100
- recognize the relationship between addition and subtraction
- identify hundreds, ten, and ones
- count by 1s and 2s within 1,000
- compare and sequence three-digit numbers
- solve multi-step word problems
- tell time to the half-hour
- tell time to the nearest 5 minutes
- calculate amounts with coins and bills
- measure length using centimeters and inches
- divide shapes into equal shares
- read a bar graph
- identify attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes
Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 2
This visually engaging activity book makes learning grammar and punctuation fun! Each theme-based unit includes reading selections, activities, and word games that will motivate your child to practice and learn essential grammar and punctuation skills. Plus, a Language Handbook provides you with a quick reference of the concepts covered.
The concepts and skills practiced include:
- nouns
- adjectives
- verbs
- pronouns
- adverbs
- prepositions
- end punctuation
- use of apostrophes
- use of commas
- use of colons
- book titles
- abbreviations
Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 2
Engaging reading selections, activities, and hands-on projects motivate children to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards. The simple hands-on activities help second grade students understand and retain science concepts in a memorable way.
Each lesson includes interesting reading selections and activities that focus on one science concept, covering the following second grade topics:
- Physical Science: Matter, Changes in Matter, Forces and Motion, Forces at Play
- Life Science: My Body, Body Parts, Animal Life Cycles, Plants, Habitats
- Space and Earth Science: Space, The Sun, Weather
- Earth’s Systems: Geology, Water and Ice
- Science and Engineering: Science, Engineering
This Learning at Home Bundle is an ideal supplement for parents to use with their children at home to keep them on track and advance their skills. If you’re interested in a complete homeschooling curriculum, view Evan-Moor’s Homeschool Curriculum Bundles for grades 1–6. The homeschool bundles provide a comprehensive curriculum, covering eight subject areas.
