2nd Grade Summer Games (by date, oldest first)

You kindergarten learners will have a blast learning and building compound words with these compound words puzzles featuring a fun, popsicle summer theme**.** Perfect for kindergarteners and first graders, this compound words matching game is sure to engage your learners while building their vocabulary. Each piece of the compound words puzzle features the vocabulary word and an accompanying picture which allows learners of all abilities to achieve success with this activity.

• This printable is included in the Hands-On Summer Activities for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Centers

What does this summer kindergarten center include?

- 32 Compound Word Puzzles

- 3 versions for printing (full color, partial color and B&W)

- Recording sheet

How to use this compound words puzzle activity?

Print and laminate the pages. Cut apart the popsicles to separate them.

Learners will then match the popsicle pieces together to form a compound word. They can start from the compound word as well, to figure out the two words that make up the compound word.

They can then record their answers in the recording sheet.

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You might be also interested in these summer kindergarten centers:

Word Families | Ice Cream | Kindergarten Summer Literacy Center

Opposites Matching Game | Summer Kindergarten Center

This opposites matching game is also included in the following bundle:

Hands-On Summer Activities for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Centers

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You kindergarten learners will have a blast with this fun Sentence Building Activity. Learners will be able to build a fun silly summer sentence. This fun and hands-on summer sentence building activity is perfect for your Kindergarten literacy centers. The sentence mats are color-coded to allow students to carry out the activity independently and build the sentences on their own. Perfect for kindergarteners and first graders, this summer sentence building activity is sure to engage your learners while building their vocabulary and helping them to develop their sentence building skills. The easy hands-on activity will allow learners of all abilities to achieve success with this activity.

• This printable is included in the Hands-On Summer Activities for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Centers

What does this summer kindergarten center include?

- 72 Picture Cards

• 24 Who? Picture Cards (Characters)
• 24 What? Picture Cards (Activity)
• 24 Where? Picture Cards (Place)

- Recording sheet

This allows for endless combinations of different sentences, over 13,000 sentences. The sentences formed will be nonsense or silly sentences which provides learners with a fun experience as they build their sentences. All of the pictures are summer themed making this perfect for a Kindergarten Summer Literacy Center.

How to use this compound words puzzle activity?

Print and laminate the pages. Cut apart to create the picture cards and print copies of the recording sheets for your learners.

Learners will place the picture cards onto the sentence mat based on the color coding of the cards. Learners will match the 3 parts based on Who? What? and Where? to create a summer themed sentence. The packet is rich with summer vocabulary making this a fun learning experience for your learners.

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You might be also interested in these summer kindergarten centers:

Word Families | Ice Cream | Kindergarten Summer Literacy Center

Opposites Matching Game | Summer Kindergarten Center

This sentence building activity is also included in the following bundle:

Hands-On Summer Activities for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Centers

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You kindergarten learners will enjoy practicing their number sense and subitizing with this fun Watermelon themed summer math center. This subitizing puzzle activity is perfect for your kindergarteners and first graders, and is sure to engage your learners while their firm up their number sense. Each piece of the puzzle features a different representation of the number which the learner has to identify and match it to the corresponding number to complete the puzzle.

• This printable is included in the Hands-On Summer Activities for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Centers

What does this summer kindergarten center include?

- 20 Subitizing Puzzles Numbers 1 to 20

- 2 Recording sheets

- Color and B&W Versions

How to use this compound words puzzle activity?

Print and laminate the pages. Cut apart the puzzles to separate them.

Learners will identify the number on the different representations and match them to the correct number to complete the number puzzle.

They can then record their answers in the recording sheet.

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You might be also interested in these summer kindergarten centers:

Word Families | Ice Cream | Kindergarten Summer Literacy Center

Opposites Matching Game | Summer Kindergarten Center

Compound Words Puzzles | Kindergarten Summer Literacy Center

Sentence Building Activity | Kindergarten Summer Literacy Center

This number matching game is also included in the following bundle:

Hands-On Summer Activities for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Centers

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Your students will have a ton of fun with these hands-on summer activities for kindergarten! Including both math and literacy summer-themed activities, these printables are the perfect addition for your kindergarten summer centers. Each activity in this bundle will include black and white copies and recording sheets wherever possible. For a detailed look at all hands-on summer activities included in this bundle, please see the preview for each resource individually above.

In its completion, this bundle will contain several sets of hands-on math and literacy activities including matching games, puzzles and clip cards. The target skills for each activity range from development of fine motor skills to recognizing initial sounds and number matching, ensuring there are appropriately challenging activities for learners of all abilities.

⭐ This printable is also part of the following bundles:

- Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers MEGA Bundle

For examples of previous bundles check out the Spring Bundle and Winter Bundle. This bundle will be smaller, but the type of activities will be similar.

The activities currently included in this summer math and literacy center bundle are:

- Opposites Matching Game

- Ice Cream Word Families

- Compound Word Puzzles

- Build a Summer Sentence

- Watermelon Subitizing Math Puzzles

How to use Hands-On Summer Activities for Kindergarten:

The center activities are best used when printed on cardstock and/or laminated. You can choose to implement these centers in an independent way or use them with small-groups. The printables can be used to strengthen students’ fine motor skills and are perfect for exploration during morning work. Alternatively, the printables can be used to supplement your kindergarten literacy and math centers.

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You might be also interested in these kindergarten centers:

- Kindergarten Clip Cards Bundle - Math and Literacy Centers

- Kindergarten Domino Activities - Math and Literacy Centers

- Real Photos Sorting Mats Bundle

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Where is the sun? This summer sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the Fry 101-200 sight word list.
• Sun cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Sun is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a sun is hidden behind a cloud. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the sun is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the sun is behind the cloud, then the sun must be hidden again to play further. If the sun is not behind the cloud, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

Where is the sun? This summer sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the Fry 201-300 sight word list.
• Sun cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Sun is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a sun is hidden behind a cloud. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the sun is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the sun is behind the cloud, then the sun must be hidden again to play further. If the sun is not behind the cloud, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

Where is the sun? This summer sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the level 2 trick word list.
• Sun cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Sun is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a sun is hidden behind a cloud. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the sun is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the sun is behind the cloud, then the sun must be hidden again to play further. If the sun is not behind the cloud, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains 84 Level 2 trick words:

again, against, always, America, animal, answer, August, away, beautiful, both, bought, breakfast, brother, carry, change, city, country, couple, cousin, daughter, December, different, done, early, earth, eight, enough, every, family, father, favorite, February, full, goes, great, head, house, January, July, knew, know, large, laugh, learn, lose, Monday, mother, move, night, ocean, often, once, only, picture, piece, place, please, pretty, pull, ready, right, Saturday, school, shall, something, son, special, sure, talk, thought, Thursday, together, tomorrow, trouble, Tuesday, use, used, walk, Wednesday, whose, won, world, young

Where is the sun? This summer sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the second grade sight word list.
• Sun cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Sun is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a sun is hidden behind a cloud. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the sun is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the sun is behind the cloud, then the sun must be hidden again to play further. If the sun is not behind the cloud, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains all 46 Second Grade Sight Words:

always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your

Where is the sun? This summer sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the third grade sight word list.
• Sun cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Sun is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a sun is hidden behind a cloud. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the sun is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the sun is behind the cloud, then the sun must be hidden again to play further. If the sun is not behind the cloud, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

These sun sight word cards make a fun summer literacy center or summer sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry sight word list. This set focuses on Fry 101-200 words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own sun card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product is in the following bundles:

Fry 1-300 Sight Word Cards for Summer

Fry 1-300 Seasonal Sight Word Cards Mega Bundle

Fry 101-200 Seasonal Sight Word Cards Bundle

These sun sight word cards make a fun summer literacy center or summer sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry sight word list. This set focuses on Fry 201-300 words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own sun card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product is in the following bundles:

Fry 1-300 Sight Word Cards for Summer

Fry 1-300 Seasonal Sight Word Cards Mega Bundle

Fry 201-300 Seasonal Sight Word Cards Bundle

These sun sight word cards make a fun summer literacy center or summer sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the second grade sight word list.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own sun card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This product contains all 46 Second Grade Sight Words:

always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your

This product is in the following bundle:

All 220 Sight Word Cards for Summer

All 220 Seasonal Sight Word Cards Mega Bundle

Second Grade Seasonal Sight Word Cards Bundle

This sight word set includes all Level 2 trick words all printed on sun cards. These are great for practicing sight words for a summer, seasonal or weather themed literacy center!

Directions for Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.

Directions for Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.

Other ideas: Place a set of cards in ABC order.

This product contains 84 Level 2 trick words:

again, against, always, America, animal, answer, August, away, beautiful, both, bought, breakfast, brother, carry, change, city, country, couple, cousin, daughter, December, different, done, early, earth, eight, enough, every, family, father, favorite, February, full, goes, great, head, house, January, July, knew, know, large, laugh, learn, lose, Monday, mother, move, night, ocean, often, once, only, picture, piece, place, please, pretty, pull, ready, right, Saturday, school, shall, something, son, special, sure, talk, thought, Thursday, together, tomorrow, trouble, Tuesday, use, used, walk, Wednesday, whose, won, world, young

These seasonal sight word cards make a fun seasonal literacy center or seasonal sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry sight word list. This set of cards are for Fry words 1-300.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included

• Spring Cards with colorful flowers.
• Summer Cards with suns.
• Winter Cards with snowballs.
• Autumn/Fall with colorful leaves.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This bundle includes the following products:

Spring

Fry 1-100 Sight Word Cards for Spring

Fry 101-200 Sight Word Cards for Spring

Fry 201-300 Sight Word Cards for Spring

Summer

Fry 1-100 Sight Word Cards for Summer

Fry 101-200 Sight Word Cards for Summer

Fry 201-300 Sight Word Cards for Summer

Fall

Fry 1-100 Sight Word Cards for Autumn

Fry 101-200 Sight Word Cards for Autumn

Fry 201-300 Sight Word Cards for Autumn

Winter

Fry 1-100 Sight Word Cards for Winter

Fry 101-200 Sight Word Cards for Winter

Fry 201-300 Sight Word Cards for Winter

Where is the Object? These seasonal sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

Products Included:

• Winter: Where's the Penguin?
• Spring: Where's the Ladybug?
• Summer: Where's the Sun?
• Fall: Where's the Acorn?

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the Fry 1-300 sight word list.
• Penguin cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the ________? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind a sight word card. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the object is behind the sight word card, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the sight word card, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

Where is the Object? These seasonal sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

Products Included:

• Winter: Where's the Penguin?
• Spring: Where's the Ladybug?
• Summer: Where's the Sun?
• Fall: Where's the Acorn?

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for all 220 sight words.
• Penguin cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the ________? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind a sight word card. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the object is behind the sight word card, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the sight word card, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

These seasonal sight word cards make a fun season literacy center or seasonal sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the preprimer through third grade word list for a total of 220 words.

These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.

Ways to Use

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the Room

Each word is printed on its own themed card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Sets Included:

• Spring flower cards
• Summer sun cards
• Fall leaf cards
• Winter snowball cards

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

This bundle includes the following products:

Spring

Preprimer Sight Word Cards for Spring

Primer Sight Word Cards for Spring

First Grade Sight Word Cards for Spring

Second Grade Sight Word Cards for Spring

Third Grade Sight Word Cards for Spring

Summer

Preprimer Sight Word Cards for Summer

Primer Sight Word Cards for Summer

First Grade Sight Word Cards for Summer

Second Grade Sight Word Cards for Summer

Third Grade Sight Word Cards for Summer

Fall

Preprimer Sight Word Cards for Autumn

Primer Sight Word Cards for Autumn

First Grade Sight Word Cards for Autumn

Second Grade Sight Word Cards for Autumn

Third Grade Sight Word Cards for Autumn

Winter

Preprimer Sight Word Cards for Winter

Primer Sight Word Cards for Winter

First Grade Sight Word Cards for Winter

Second Grade Sight Word Cards for Winter

Third Grade Sight Word Cards for Winter

Where is the Object? These seasonal sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

Products Included:

• Winter: Where's the Penguin?
• Spring: Where's the Ladybug?
• Summer: Where's the Sun?
• Fall: Where's the Acorn?

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the Fry 201-300 sight word list.
• Penguin cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the ________? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind a sight word card. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the object is behind the sight word card, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the sight word card, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

Where is the Object? These seasonal sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

Products Included:

• Winter: Where's the Penguin?
• Spring: Where's the Ladybug?
• Summer: Where's the Sun?
• Fall: Where's the Acorn?

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the Fry 101-200 sight word list.
• Penguin cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the ________? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind a sight word card. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the object is behind the sight word card, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the sight word card, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

Where is the Object? These seasonal sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

Products Included:

• Winter: Where's the Penguin?
• Spring: Where's the Ladybug?
• Summer: Where's the Sun?
• Fall: Where's the Acorn?

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the second grade sight word list.
• Penguin cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the ________? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind a sight word card. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the object is behind the sight word card, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the sight word card, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This product contains all 46 Second Grade Sight Words:

always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your