Less than $5 2nd Grade Summer Games (by date, oldest first)

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 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

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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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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 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

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

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

Do you need a no prep engaging ice breaker, brain break, team building, Fun Friday, or morning meeting activity for students for the end of the school year and summer? Your students will make predictions and guess the mystery zoomed in picture! Students can discuss clues to come up with an answer, share their observations with the class, and agree or disagree with their classmates' predictions! The mystery picture will be revealed on the following slide.

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What's Included?

• directions slide
• 25 zoomed in mystery pictures
• 25 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• editable template to customize your own zoomed in images

Directions:

• Students will look at the zoomed-in portion of a larger image. The first slide of each picture is at maximum zoom.
• Students will try to guess what the picture is based on the tiny glimpse.
• The following slide reveals the mystery picture.

Some summer pictures you will see:

beach ball

sand castle

popsicles

camping tent

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*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

Use this end of the year / summer no-prep icebreaker would you rather game as a brain break, morning meeting activity, community building activity, or discussion starters. You can also use these questions as writing prompts or even debate prompts. Your students will love having the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly summer traditions.

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What's Included:

• 25 would you rather slides
• 1 directions slide
• 1 directions slide template for you to add your own directions
• 1 editable template for you to add your own would you rather prompts

Directions:

• Display the slides for students.
• Read the two options and students must choose which one they would rather do.
• Students can respond in many different ways: sharing with the whole class, small groups, partners, debating, writing, etc.

Would You Rather Question Examples:

• Would you rather eat a popsicle or eat a snow cone?
• Would you rather have a bad sunburn or have 100 mosquito bites?
• Would you rather have 3 months off in summer or have 3 months off in winter?

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This no-prep game is a great way to help students channel all their end of the year excitement! Use this activity for an icebreaker, last week of school activity, morning meeting game, brain break or Fun Friday activity. As students read each statement, they will stand up if it relates to them. This not only provides a fun and interactive way to celebrate their achievements, but it also encourages students to reflect on their growth and progress over the school year while sharing exciting things coming up in their lives for the summer.

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What's Included:

20 "stand up if" google slides

Directions slide

Editable Directions Slide to add your own directions

Editable Stand Up If slide to create your own stand up statements

Directions:

Read the statement on the slide.

Students who relate to the statement will stand.

Allow time for students to look around and share commonalities.

Sample Slides:

Stand up if you were kind to someone this year.

Stand up if you made a new friend this school year.

Stand up if you're going swimming this summer.

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Use this no-prep icebreaker scavenger hunt as a end of the year party game, morning meeting activity, brain break, indoor recess activity, Fun Friday game and more! Your students will love moving, having fun, and building classroom community while finding objects around their classroom or home that fit the description. This is a great way for students to reflect on their school year and also start thinking about their summer break!

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What's included:

• 15 scavenger hunt slides
• 1 directions slide
• 1 editable directions slide template
• 1 editable scavenger hunt template for you to customize your own prompts

How to play:

• Display the slides for students.
• Students move around to find an item to match the description.
• Students take turns sharing their special item in person or on their camera. They could also share with a partner or small group instead.
• If students can't something in their classroom or home, they could draw something instead!

Scavenger Hunt Examples:

• Find something that made you smile this year.
• Find something you used in science class this year.
• Find something you want to read this summer.

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Use this Hawaiian Beach Luau emoji guess the picture activity for some end of the year themed fun! This no-prep game is perfect for morning meeting, brain breaks, fun friday, indoor recess, class parties and more! When you download this resource you get both PowerPoint and Google Slides versions.

Improve your student's critical thinking skills and vocabulary by having them decipher some of the most commonly spoken luau phrases shown in a series of picture characters. Emojis can be combined without the use of words to create a new word or phrase. For example, a picture of the ocean and a turtle makes "sea turtle!"

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What's Included

What's Included:

• 15 Emoji picture guessing slides

• 15 Answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)

• 1 directions slide

• 1 editable directions slide template

• 1 editable emoji phrases slide template for you to customize your own phrases

More Themed Day Resources:

Hawaiian Luau Zoomed In

Hawaiian Luau Would You Rather

Camping Day Would You Rather

More End of the Year Resources:

Zoomed In Mystery Picture Game

Guess the Emoji Phrases Game

Lines of Symmetry Drawings

Finish the Story Writing Prompts

Would You Rather

Your 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will love practicing reading out loud with these engaging and high-interest sentences!  This set includes 48 low-prep sentences perfect for practicing reading fluency.  The sentences are all about summer, camping, and ice cream! Quick and easy set up plus clear student directions make these activities perfect independent practice, literacy centers, and homeschooling families!

Printable fluency sentences are included in addition to a blank page to customize for your student(s).  High interest topics will especially motivate your reluctant readers. Students will love reading these sentences to practice reading out loud! The sentences are appropriate for grades 3-5. 

Here’s what you’ll get:

• 48 sentences on summer, camping, and ice cream!
• Pictorial instructions page
• Black sentence page to customize
• Certificate of completion to print and color
• Progress tracker
• Extension activities 

Ideas for use:

The format is perfect if you have daily fluency practice or offer take home activities for students. I use these with my own homeschooled children and my online teaching students. I’ve also included several extension activities to use the materials further.

Why your students will love this:

Your students will love practicing their oral reading fluency with these sentences because it is fun to pull them out of a hat and the topics are high interest or funny! 

**Prep is quick and easy…**Just print the pages, cut the sentences into strips, find a basket or bin, and let your student(s) pull a sentence to read!

You may also like….

• Computer and Gaming Themed Fluency Sentences

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Keywords:

Reading fluency, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, copy work, reluctant readers, high-interest topics, reading out loud, summer reading, summer

Have fun with this 3rd-grade Spiral Math review scavenger hunt! Students will solve the 3rd-grade math problems on the card and then hunt down the answer on another card, leading them to the next math problem! This game is a self-checking printable.

This product includes:

~26 math problem cards

~1 answer tracker PDF

Why use this scavenger hunt?

~it's self-checking

~low prep (print and cut - laminate for multiple use)

~super engaging - students must solve the fun math problems!

Please review this product and let me know in your review what sort of scavenger hunts you want to see in my store, and/or if you'd like these in digital versions too!

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Teacher Bethanie

Are you excited about Summer Break? If you're in search of a delightful activity, look no further - Ocean Animals Fun Activity Packet is here!
Inside this Sea Animals Activities Book, you'll discover a treasure trove of enjoyable, ready-to-use ocean worksheets perfect for the months of summer.

These activities are specifically crafted to help Kindergarten kids develop essential skills and achieve specific learning objectives. They're versatile and suitable for morning assignments, substitute teacher days, homework, and for those early finishers.

This jam pack offers a variety of differentiated activities, including:

• Dot-to-Dot
• Dot Marker
• Tracing Activity
• I Spy Ocean
• Ocean Ordering Numbers
• Color by Number
• Ocean Grid Puzzles
• Spot The differences
• Ocean Mazes and more!

You can choose the ones that best suit your students' needs.

May you like to explore our Ocean products:

Ocean Animals Mazes Activity

Sea And Ocean Animals Coloring Pages

Summer Under The Ocean Collaborative Coloring Poster

Shark Letters And Numbers Matching Cards

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