| September |
| Sunflowers Van Gogh’s Sunflower image Basic information on sunflowers One page with Van Gogh’s sunflower picture and a few facts including how to say sunflower in other languages. |
| Ladybugs Pictures of Ladybugs |
| Curriculum Links for Second Grade |
| October |
| Nocturnal Animals Stellaluna's Friends-Bat reports done by young children. Owl Prowl-Poems and reports about owls by young children. Nocturnal Animal Sounds-Listen to a sound and guess which animal makes the sound. Then read about the animal with your parents. Enchanted Learning-Click on a nocturnal animal to learn more about it and see a detailed picture you can print and color. Good site for kids to use. |
| Prairie Theme Laura Ingalls Wilder Prairie Girl -Excellent looking site with photos and music. It has a page just for kids too. |
| November |
| Gingerbread Theme Jan Brett-make and print your own gingerbread house, print out puppets for the Gingerbread Baby. |
| Christmas Claus.com- A fun place for the kids to visit. They can check to see their naughty or nice rating. On Christmas Eve they can track Santa's progress and it will tell them when to go to bed because Santa is getting close. |
| December |
| January |
| Weather FEMA Site for Kids-This site has photos and videos of tornadoes as well as a wealth of information on safety. Brainpop-Here the children can watch a movie and take a quiz about thunderstorms. Web Weather for Kids- This site has simple experiments the children can do at home related to weather. Weather Dude-This is his page for kids. It includes a book list, songs, quizzes, forecasts and much more. Winter Poems Here are some poems written by second graders in Moline, Illinois. |
| February |
| Abraham Lincoln Kids Project This site has pictures drawn by children and text about the life of A. Lincoln. Another Site for Kids |
| March |
| Patricia Polacco Patricia Polacco This is a great site done by her son. We'll be using this site in class to learn more about this wonderful author. |
| May |
| April |
| Click here to see project pages from a previous group of second graders. Jelly Beans Great Egg Roll |
| Wright Brothers Kids-learn.org-Here you will see work from our unit on display in addtion to work done by other first and second grade classes. She also has links to other sites about the Wright Brothers.Be sure to check it out. Susan Silverman does a great job. After you're done looking be sure to sign her guestbook. Photos Click here to search for photos of the Wright Brothers. |
| Tomie dePaola-This is his official web site. Children can read questions and answers about him, see a bibliography and much more. |
| NASA Homepage for Kids NASA Space Sites for Kids 19 space sits for kids and their parents to check out. Star Child This site is written for children and two levels of difficulty. Space Place A place for kids to play games, get directions to make space projects and more. |
| Plants Here are some great ideas for fun activities to do with plants. |
