Second Grade Student Center Activities Houghton Mifflin

Support for Theme 1:

• Build your students' background information on a Balanced Diet and the Food Pyramid with this on-line game. Students need to select the correct foods to fuel their rocket ship. Click here to check it out: http://www.mypyramid.gov/kids/kids_game.html

Support for Theme 2:

• The Teacher Read Aloud for Theme 2, Week 1 is called "The Big Dipper." To help build student background before and during the reading of this story, the pictures below might help.

Ursa Major and Polaris

The Big Dipper in the Night Sky

Support for Theme 5:

• Theme 5, Week 3, Spelling Lesson, Day 4, Page 221G: Add a Candle - On Day 4 of this week's spelling lesson, students are asked to design a cake and candles for the lesson. Since this is rather time-consuming, Shauna Juarez, Literacy Coach at Alvin, designed a cake and candles that help facilitate this activity.