Second Grade is on the horizon and young learners will have fun preparing for it with Daily Summer Activities, Moving from First to Second Grade. The many exercises it contains, while brief, add just the right amount of complexity to keep children challenged.
Language Arts practice:
- a fiction and a nonfiction story with comprehension questions each week
- sentences to correct for capitalization, punctuation, and grammar
- manuscript handwriting practice
- creative writing activities
- 6 spelling words to learn each week
Mathematics practice:
- addition and subtraction facts
- word problems
- counting
- two-digit addition and subtraction, without borrowing and carrying
Language skills such as:
- alphabetical order
- contractions
- nouns and verbs
- synonyms and antonyms
- vowel sounds
Beginning geography:
- map symbols
- reading simple maps