2nd Grade Back to School BUNDLE

Looking to have your first month of 2nd grade planned and ready to go? Then this back to school bundle is for you! This 2nd grade back to school bundle includes 6 of my most popular back to school resources, making it a breeze for you to plan your reading, writing, math, and station time!

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This resource is a bundle and includes the following resources:

1. First Day Jitters Activities
2. Back to School Math Centers
3. Back to School Literacy Centers
4. All About Me Writing
5. My Summer Vacation Cactus Writing
6. Ending Punctuation Unit

With this resource, you'll save time AND money by having everything you need in one place!

No need to dig around and pull activities from multiple places! This unit has it all!

Use the reading and writing activities from First Day Jitters to anchor your back to school reading and writing lesson plans.

Then, use the My Summer Vacation writing to get your students ready for writing this school year!

Add the Ending Punctuation Unit to start your writing instruction. And continue working with the All About Me Writing (Perfect for Open House!)

Add some fun Back to School Themed Centers to your reading and math centers with Back to School Reading Centers and Back to School Math Centers as you train your newly minted seconds on procedures and expectations!

A Peek at the Resources:

1. First Day Jitters Activities

• Lesson Plans- A five day outline with suggestions of ideas for a close reading routine of the book and daily writing.
• Digital Student Activities- Want to use these activities as part of your distance learning classroom or digital classroom? This file now includes a digital student notebook making it super easy to share with students and have them complete each activity! (Also includes directions on how to use in your Google Classroom (TM) or Office 365 (TM)
• Jittery Questions- After reading the book, use these question cards to check for abasic understanding of the text. Questions range from level 1-3 on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge scale.
• Jitter Feelings - Students work to make connections between themselves and the main character in First Day Jitters.
• Jittery Story Elements-Students work to understand the basic elements of fictional stories including Characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end.
• Jittery Illustrations-Students use the illustrations to better understand the text.
• Compound Words-Students listen for compound words as they read First Day Jitters, record the words they hear, and also play a game with compound words. Includes an interactive anchor chart and a reference poster.
• Jittery Writing- Three writing prompts based on the book and one general writing paper. Includes self checking rubrics. ✍
• Emoji Crafts- Have students choose one big emoji or three smaller ones to express how they felt on their first day of school. Use to decorate your students' writings. ❤️☺
• First Day Jitters Bulletin Board Lettering- Use the letter as a title for a bulletin board showcasing your kiddos’ first day emoji writings.

2. Back to School Math Activities and Centers

• Numbers About Me- Interactive Student Notebook Pages
• Numbers About Me-Hundreds chart activity
• Crayon Box Skip Counting- A skip counting matching game includes activities for skip counting by: 2's, 3's, 5's, 10's, even, and odd.
• Apple Math- Basic facts fun with 3 Options to play (addition, subtraction and mixed review) Includes suggestions for differentiation.
• Word Problem Search and Scan- Basic addition and subtraction word problems with answer QR codes
• "I Have…Who Has…" Game- Back to School Edition- Fun review game of basic computation, time, money, and shapes.

3. Back to School Literacy Centers

• School Supply Sort- Nouns, verbs, and adjectives
• School News- Central Topic and supporting details
• Add an Ending- Adding the suffixes –ing and –ed to words (3 different sets!)
• Class Time Shades of Meaning- Strong and weak words
• Tales from the School Yard- Story starters
• School Time Cause and Effect-. Cause and effect
• School Time Categories- Categories
• What Would You Do? Classroom Discussion- Collaborative discussions on how to handle problems/issues in the classroom (No recording sheet)
• Our Class Graph- Read a simple graph (No recording sheet)
• Classroom Compound Words- Compound word

4. All About Me Writing

• “All About My Selfie” Questionnaire (perfect for younger students)
• Questionnaire (perfect for younger students)
• brainstorm-more structured for younger students.
• brainstorm-less structured for older students
• rough draft pages in primary lines and regular
• final copy writing paper in primary and regular lines.
• “All About Me” final copy writing paper in primary and regular lines
• Blank Title final copy writing paper in primary and regular lines.
• No title writing paper in primary and regular lines (perfect for extra sheets for writings that take up more than one page)
• Writing Rubric- to help guide students as to what they should include in their writing

5. My Summer Vacation Back to School Writing Activity and Craft-

• Summer on Point Resources- use these suggested books and videos to prime your students before beginning the writing process. Perfect for kiddos who may not remember what they did over summer vacation.
• Summer on Point Lesson Plans- these easy to follow 5 day plans walks your students through the writing process from brainstorm to publishing! Use all or a few of the suggestions.
• What I Did on Summer Break Brainstorm- students work to brainstorm places they went, things they saw, and people they met. (Primary and Regular lines)
• My Summer Was On Point- Use this rough draft sheet to scaffold student’s writings into paragraph form. (primary and regular lines included)
• My Summer Was on Point Paper- publishing paper for student’s writings. (primary and regular lines included)
• Expository Writing Rubric- After students have completed their writings, use this self-checking rubric to make sure their writings have everything an expository piece should include. Has a section for teacher notes as well so grading this writing is a breeze!
• Cactus Crafts- 2 options for the cactus craft. Two variations of cactus so your students can pick which plant best suits their personality. Samples included.

6. Ending Punctuation Unit

• Suggested Lesson Plan
• 2 Interactive Anchor Chart Posters: What is a sentence? And How Does it End? -So your kiddos can help create the content!
• Sentence/ Not a Sentence cut and paste sort
• Ending Punctuation Reference Posters- hang this up all year and refer to them as students are writing.
• Ending Punctuation Sorter Foldable and 3 Sentence sorting cards (2 with sentences, 1 student fills in)
• How Does it End Cut and Paste Assessment
• Write-a-Sentence Center- students use picture cards to write a sentence inspired by the picture. Use this again to teach about captions.
• Build-a-Sentence- Silly Sentence building center with a recording sheet

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