Harcourt Trophies 2nd Grade @ The Virtual Vine

Harcourt Trophies

2nd Grade

This year I started doing inclusion with my 2nd graders for part of the day. Our 2nd grade uses Trophies, so I created some activities that were on the instructional level of my students but coordinated with the stories in the reader. You can find some of the activities here, and more activities specific to some of the stories can be found on the linked pages. I hope you find some things you can use in your classroom and if you have activities to share (on or below grade level), please do.

Links to Story Pages
The Mixed - Up Chameleon	Get Up and Go!
Henry and Mudge	Frog and Toad
Wilson Sat Alone	The Enormous Turnip
Helping Out	Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane
Hedgehog Bakes a Cake	Lemonade for Sale
Johnny Appleseed	From Seed to Plant
The Secret Life of Trees	Watermelon Day
Pumpkin Fiesta	The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
How I Spent My Summer Vacation	Dear Mr. Blueberry
Cool Ali	The Emperor's Egg
The Pine Park Mystery	Good-bye, Curtis
Max Found Two Sticks	Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope
Chinatown	Abuela
Beginner's World Atlas	Dinosaurs Travel
Montigue on the High Seas	Ruth Law Thrills a Nation
*only the purple links are online pages; the rest will go online as time permits* :)	if the link carries you to a page that isn't specifically for that story, ideas for the story will be close to the top so you don't have to search too much

Story Elements: Go to the Mixed - Up Chameleon page to download printable story element cards to use in the pocketchart. Printable story element activity pages below

activity 1

activity 2

activity 3

(this activity goes through the story Helping Out)

Story Elements Test

Henry and Mudge: This idea was shared by Nikki. She found some craft fall leaves and made "ed" words and glued them on the leaves. The students will work in pairs and come up with a sentence using an "ed" word that's on their leaf. They will write their sentences on sentence strips.

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Adapted Workbook pages

pg 18

pg 20

Henry and Mudge

http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com/HenryandMudge.html

Wilson Sat Alone:

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Adapted Workbook pages

pg 36

pg 38

The Enormous Turnip:

The Great Big Enormous Turnip

http://kizclub.com/storypatterns/turnip(C).pdf

http://kizclub.com/storypatterns/turnip.pdf

The Giant Pumpkin: I created this reader to coordinate with The Enormous Turnip.

http://www.teachersbookbag.com/misccompanionbooks.html

Hedgehog Bakes a Cake: Below are printables for a recipe for individual cakes made in a Dixie cup. They are then baked in an electric skillet (with the top on). Make sure that you get the cups with the small lip on the bottom that keeps the bottom of the cup from sitting directly on the skillet. There are also comprehension and sequencing sheets and a brief to note to parents concerning supplies included with the file.

Cup Cake Recipe

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Lemonade for Sale: Below are printables for a recipe for individual lemonade and an activity for matching the vocabulary words from the story to the correct definition.

Recipe

Vocabulary Matching Cards

pg 1

pg 2

Another idea is to have a real lemonade sale! You could set up on the playground and sell during recess and have the kids graph their profits. They will love it! If there's more than one class, you can have a competition to see which class sells the most. The class will need to decide beforehand what they'll do with the money ... a class party, a class trip, something for the classroom, or donate it to a good cause.

The Secret Life of Trees:

Parts of a Tree (printable)

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060303_bp5.pdf

They Need Trees (printable .. incorporates Spanish)

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060303_bp6.pdf

Tree printable

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060303_bp9.pdf

A Tree In Each Season (printable)

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2007F/070928_bp_3.pdf

Identify Tree by Scientific Name

http://www.oplin.org/tree/name/commonname.html

Trees

http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/trees.htmlx

Exploring the Secret Life of Trees

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees2/

The Lorax's Save the Trees Game

http://www.seussville.com/games/lorax/

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash: Printables for ou/ow skill.

ou/ow printables

Workbook page 4 adapted (vocabulary words)

vocabulary words printable

ABC Order printable

The video for this story is on the Click, Clack, Moo video.

Reading Rainbow: http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/family/activities/activity14.html

Printables online for The Mailbox K/1st Jun/July 2007 - tshirt pattern and blackline and colored chain reaction picture cards. I can't put my hands on the magazine at the moment (mine is probably at school) to match the printables with what's in the magazine, but there's only 4 chain reaction cards and they're numbered. (not the whole sequence from the book)

Cool Ali:

Provide students with sidewalk chalk and allow them to create scenes that are opposite to the current weather. If it's cool or cold, they can draw a fire. If it's warm or hot, they can draw rain. Have them transfer their drawing to paper (optional) and write or discuss if their drawings made them feel warmer or cooler.

The Pine Park Mystery: Printables

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Label for Cards

adapted workbook pages

pg 42

pg 45

The Pine Park Mystery vocabulary words

http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/schools/sky/the_pine_Park_mystery.htm

Good-bye, Curtis:

Printables

Vocabulary Matching Cards

adapted workbook pages

Good-bye, Curtis vocabulary words

http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/schools/sky/good-bye,_curtis.htm

Max Found Two Sticks:

The perfect story to work on your rhythm and beat! Also to create maracas, drums, rainsticks, tambourines, etc.

adapted workbook pages

pg 59

pg 66

Max Found Two Sticks vocabulary words

http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/schools/sky/max_found_two_sticks.htm

Tell Me A Story Activity Page (scroll down to find Max Found Two Sticks)

http://benningtonfreelibrary.org/Tell%20Me%20a%20Story%20Activity%20Page2.html

Mrs. Maxwell's Reading Links

http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/pfes/second%20grade/Mrs.%20Maxwell%20sem%202%20book%202.htm

Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope:

Know someone who's on the rodeo circuit or who's a bronco bustin' wanna-be? See if they can line you up with someone to come in and show your class how to handle a rope and maybe even to rope a dummy steer ( a chair or overactive 2nd grader will work just as well! :) ). This is also a good story to practice your Mexican Hat Dance and to break out the mariachi band and maracas and maybe have a little fiesta! Don't forget the pinata!!!!!

Printables

Vocabulary Matching Word Cards

Vocabulary Matching Definition Cards

Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope vocabulary words

http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/schools/sky/anthony_reynoso_born_to_rope.htm

Test Tutor:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade2/skill17/reynoso.htm

Chinatown:

Printables

Vocabulary Matching Cards

adapted workbook pages

pg 75