Mrs. McConnell
 
Academic Content Standards
Academic Content Standards Guide for parents of children in grade 2.
 
Language Arts
Interactive proofreading passages. Select a grade level (2-8) and a passage focused on a particular skill. Skills include spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Self checking so students can complete independently.
 
Math
A fun number game
Find the Missing Addend
Timed (one minute) practice with basic facts. Choose which of the four basic operations to practice.
Log in and play
Find hidden dogbones in a blank hundred chart within an allotted amount of time.
Choose to use ounces or pound for proper measurement.
Solve problems using 100s chart
Practice structuring to fives
Practice structuring tens
Choose appropriate weights
Sort numbers - odd or even
Lots of great math games!
Earn awards for completing math facts. Work on improving your accuracy and time.
 
Parent Resources
Learn how to form cursive letters. To see the animation, move your mouse over a letter.
Website for a literacy initiative that tackles the issue of literacy for boys. Jon Scieszka, award-winning author of The Stinky Cheese Man and other books, lends his support to this issue. Included are favorite books for boys of all ages, and ideas for increasing literacy in young males.
 
Poetry
A really fun site! Kids, you can read funny poems, then grade them A to F. You can also create your own funny poem, and maybe win a contest, too!
 
Reading
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource. The focus is on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities.
Hear some stories being read and read along with them.
Click on NEWS and read about This Week in Sports. Excellent for Middle to Advanced Readers.
 
Reading on the Web
A site that explains how just about everything in the world works.
Read the mysteries and solve them online.
Discover the story of Americas past as presented by the Library of Congress. Lots of history to read about and explore.
Explore geopgraphic, scientic and historical concepts, issues and events.
Click on Ranger Rick, then choose a month from past issues to locate past articles in the Ranger Rick archives.
Read or print articles from the magazine Tme for Kids.
 
Social Studies
Take a field trip to city hall and study the jobs of the mayor and the city council. Learn about city offices and visit the library.
 
Word Study - Within Word
Choose the correct vowel pattern which goes between the beginning and ending consonants to complete a word. Two levels of play. Has adjustable speed.
Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends.
Ten vowel patterns, (some r-controlled). Given a word with a blank in the middle, select missing vowel pattern. Picture clue also provided.
Look carefully at the cards to see if they match. When you see a pair click Snap! But dont get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a point. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. Faster is harder but you get more Snaps!
Help Wordblender make words by choosing a start sound (onset) and an end sound (rime) to blend together. Wordblender will tell you if youre right or not. You might even be able to make some new words that dont exist!
After selecting a postcard, locate a featured vowel pattern in all the words. In the second level, drag a vowel pattern to correctly fill in a gap in a word.