Second Grade Math Kit

Find the activities below that correspond with the materials found in our Second Grade Math Kit. Please select the material before selecting the grade to make sure your search results only provide activities for the mats in your Second Grade Math Kit.

Bean Bag Decides

A student will toss a bean bag onto the mat. Using the question word the bean bag landed on, the student should create a sentence. Example: Bean bag lands on “why.” Student asks, “I wonder why the clouds are white.”
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Blindfolded Questions

Have one student close their eyes or use a blindfold. Have another student guide the first student as they carefully jump or walk up and down the mat. After a few moments, the student on the mat will stop and look down at the question word they landed on. Using that word, the student will ask a question to the class.

Example: Student lands on “what”. Student asks, “What noise does a cow make?”

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Storytime

Use this mat with a story you have just read with your class.
Have a student jump on the word, ‘who.’ Ask the student, “Who is the main character of the story?” The student will answer, “The main character is…” Continue through the mat asking questions about the story.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

What’s the Meaning?

Have students start at the beginning of the mat. As they jump on each word, have them give the meaning of each question word.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Crawl and Trace

Have students crouch down on their knees on the floor mat. Starting with the word ‘who,’ have a student trace each letter of the word with two fingers while spelling the word out loud. Continue through the rest of the mat.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Question Word Hop

Have students start at the beginning of the mat. Have them hop through the mat, reading each question word aloud as they jump.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Types of Sentences

When studying types of sentences, use this mat to reinforce what punctuation ends each kind of sentence. Name a type of sentence and have students take turns hopping to its punctuation mark on the mat. (Interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, declarative)

Grade 3

Body Punctuation

Call out a punctuation mark and have students take turns finding it on the mat and then making the mark with theiir bodies. (Could work in pairs.)

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

PIck my Mark

Have students write sentences on cards leaving out the punctuation marks. Have the class trade sentences and take turns putting their cards on the mat on the punctuation that would correctly complete their sentence.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Speaking The Mark Hop

Students take turns tossing a bean bag onto the mat. Then have them make a sentence using that punctuation in it.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

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