Fun activities for second graders: Fun learning games and activities for 2nd graders

50 classroom activities for 2nd grade

This blog shares ideas for using Wixie to meet standards and learning goals with second graders, whether they are learning at school or at home. Select the image for each idea or use the text link to open a template you can assign as a teacher, or use as a student, immediately.

If your child uses Wixie at school, they can log in at home to create and share their learning through a combination of text, images, and voice narration! Your child’s teacher may even be suggesting activities by assigning templates that will show at the top of your child’s Wixie home page. (If your child doesn’t have Wixie, sign up for a free trial account you can use for 90-days.)

Find more ideas, samples, and lessons for second-grade learners at: https://static.wixie.com/edu/second-grade

1. Brainstorm signs of spring

Regardless of the current weather outside on the vernal equinox, what are the signs of spring in your area? Search “spring” or “cluster” at your Wixie home page, add what you see (or even hear, smell, taste, and feel) this spring to each petal. (template)

2. Create a superhero

Create your own super hero! What powers will they have? How will they help people? Where did they and their powers come from? If you need a bit of direction to get started, search “superhero” in Wixie to find a Superhero ID card. (template)

3. Create an animal alliteration

Create an amazing animal alliteration – a short sentence in the noun–verb–noun format, such as “Birds build bubbles.” Use Wixie’s paint tools to illustrate and record your voice to narrate your sentence. (template)

4. Create a collage

Add images to a blank Wixie page to represent something. For example, you could represent events in story or your day or even things you see during a particular season.

First grade combines the tools in FreshPaint and Wixie in order to create a spring “collage”. @visualartsbcps @Edgemere_BCPS @Tech5Learning pic.twitter. com/SjEQGAMDvq

— Greg Flach (@Mountaineer94) April 6, 2018

5. Explore antonyms

Explore antonyms with your child. Read Dr. Seuss’s The Foot Book and create a list of antonyms with your child. You can start them off with things like hot/cold, high/low.

Have your child create a page in Wixie that illustrates an antonym pair. Use the microphone tool to record their explanation. 

Step-by-step directions for creating antonyms in Wixie

6. Go on a shape hunt

Read a book like The Shape of Me and Other Stuff by Dr. Seuss. Then walk around your home and find shapes, like rectangles and triangle, or even cylinders and spheres. 

Use the Image button and Camera tab to capture the shapes you find and add them to Wixie. Search “3D” for a book template. (template)

Seeing Shapes lesson plan with literature connections, samples, and more

7. Make a wish

Search for “wish” at your Wixie home page and open the My Wish activity. Use the Image button and Camera tab to capture a photo of yourself blowing out a dandelion. Select the circle shape below the tools to change it from a rectangle to an oval. Type your wish in the bubble. (template)

8. Take a 5-senses walk

Go outside and walk around your yard or neighborhood. What do you see, hear, smell, touch, or taste? When you come back inside, search Wixie for “observation” and open the 5 Senses Observation template. Add text or pictures to show what you observed for each sense. (template)

9. Create an animal riddle

Create a riddle to challenge other student’s knowledge about animals. Choose your favorite animal or learn about one you didn’t know about before. (template)

Explore an Animal Riddles lesson plan

10. Real World of Math: Post Office Problems

Students’ use of computation skills coincides with the ability to solve word problems involving money. Search “Post Office Problems” to find a template that asks students to apply computation skills to solve stamp-buying questions. (template)

Former math specialist Scott Loomis has an entire series of Real World of Math templates. Find out more

11. Create a personal timeline

Have students add photos and images to create a timeline that shows important events in their life. Search “timeline” at your Wixie home page for a template. Add text to each bubble and images for an event or two. Use the microphone tool to record a summary. Share with family and friends by copying and pasting the URL. (template)

Extend student thinking by asking them to add another page and draw pictures of where they see themselves in the future.

Explore more timeline ideas

12. Send a virtual high five

Right now most people are going above and beyond to respond to the pandemic. Show your appreciation with a virtual high-five. Has a friend connected on a regular basis, did your grandparents send something nice? (template)

You can also search for “five” at your Wixie home page and add text or voice narration to show you appreciate their being amazing. Use the paint tools and Image options to decorate.

13. Write a letter to or between characters in a story

Taking the perspective of a character in a story can help students understand their motivations and better comprehend their response to events in a story. Assign a stationery template, use the Stationery backgrounds, or have students design their own. (template)

Provide a prompt that connects to the story you are reading to direct their thinking and writing.

14. Simple surveys and great graphs

Survey your friends, family members, and neighbors about a favorite book, sport, food, game, or at-home activity. Collect your survey findings using tally marks to practice counting. (template)

Explore a Simple Surveys and Great Graphs lesson plan

15. Adapt a rhyming story to build skills with phonics

It’s #SchoolLibraryMonth. Read a rhyming story like Dr. Seuss’s There’s a Wocket in my Pocket. Have students choose a place in the house and write a rhyming nonsense word for a creature living there. Use Wixie to add a Seuss-like sentence and illustrate your page.  Use Wixie’s import pages feature to combine individual student work into a class book. (template)

Find more creating writing ideas that build phonics skills

16. Make a map of your neighborhood

Use the “By My House” template in Wixie, to have students create a map of important places in their neighborhood. (template)

Ask parents to help them review the cardinal directions from their home as well as what places they know in those directions. Have students use the paint tools and add images to create a map that shows these important places in their community.

17. Decorate an Easter Egg

Wixie includes a folder of activities for April in the Curriculum > Month-by-Month folder. Open the Paint an Easter Egg activity and have your child decorate using Wixie’s paint tools. (template)

Print the file, cut out the eggs, and use as Easter decorations. You can even write notes on the back and hide around your home for an egg hunt or give to a friend as an Easter greeting card.

18. Capture reading fluency

Capture student fluency using the recording tool and Wixie templates with prose and poetry passages for grades K-3. (template)

Log in and search “fluency” or browse Curriuclum>Language Arts>Reading>Fluency for a few examples, then customize or create your own to meet your needs.

19. What would you do with $100?

In second grade, students abilities in reading, writing, and math are blossoming. Embrace their growing ability to think independently by asking them what they would do with 100 dollars. (template)

Use this project to build literacy and math by asking students to tell you what they would spend their money to buy, why they would do this (reason) as well as subtract the value of this object from 100 to show the change they would get back from paying with a $100 bill.

20. Review and rate a book

Have learners write a review of a recent book they have read. Share with friends and other students to give them ideas for new titles they can read to help keep them from getting bored at home in quarantine! (template)

Explore more book review ideas, including a book review cube, on Creative Educator.

21. Interview a family or friend about life in quarantine

Life has changed in the past month for people across the world. Encourage students to connect with families or friends they haven’t been able to see recently by asking them to conduct an interview.  Students can connect with them on the phone or even FaceTime and interview them about their experience with life at home during quarantine. Create a Wixie document to record your questions and their answers with text and voice recording. (template)

22. Create an Arcimboldo-inspired self-portrait

Giuseppe Arcimboldo is an Italian Renaissance painter known for his portraits of people that use objects like fruit and books. Challenge students to create Arcimboldo-style self-portraits by combining clip art images in Wixie. Browse the Curriculum library and Art to find a template to support student work. (template)

Explore an Arcimboldo-style Self Portrait lesson plan

23. Explore character traits and support with evidence

Have students use Wixie to recall, retell, and share text, images, and voice narration about a character’s physical traits, feelings, and actions. Search “trait” or “cluster” for a template. Students can also connect evidence from the text to each trait. (template)

Explore more ideas for using cluster diagrams to organize student thinking

24. Solve a tangram puzzle

A tangram is a Chinese puzzle made from a square cut into seven different shapes, called tans. You use these shapes to make the square, as well as a range of other shapes. Tangram puzzles help students practice visual-spatial awareness and geometric relationships like symmetry, transformations, and composite shapes. (template)

At your Wixie home, search “tangram” to find a range of challenges! 

For a creative writing approach, use the Tangram Story file to build your own unique shape and finish the story of the happy square: “There was once a happy square who dreamed of being different, something exciting. But what could that be?”

25. Build vocabulary with word games

Wixie includes a folder of Word Play templates you can use to challenge students to expand vocabulary and see words. For example, how many three-letter words can you find in the word celebrate? How many four-letter words? (template)

Many of the Month-by-Month folders also include thematic words for this type of word play, like this one for Earth Day.

26. Create a backyard or neighborhood field guide

Ask students to go outside or look out a window and observe a plant or animal that interests them. Use Wixie to draw what they see and record observations using text and voice. Use this information to identify the species. (Go Botany and Cornell have sites that can help). (template)

Once students know the species, have them use Wixie to create a field guide for that species or even several species that live nearby.

27. Draw your own tree for Arbor Day

Gustav Klimt’s “Tree of Life” is one of his most recognizable paintings. Search “Klimt” in Wixie and use the Eraser tool to create your own Klimt-style tree using a scratch art-style template. (template)

Scratch art drawing in Wixie is done with the Eraser tool, not the paint brush! 

28.

Write your own version of A. A. Milne’s “When I was One” poem

Read “The End” a poem by A. A. Milne, who you know from Winnie the Pooh.

When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I’m as clever as clever,
So I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever.

Open Wixie and type “Milne” in the search field. (template)

Open the “When I was (age)” template, finish each line, and use Wixie’s tools to illustrate. 

If you have students of different ages, adjust the template to add or remove a line and assign different templates to different students.

29. Craft a concrete, or shape, poem

Concrete poems are poems where the words are arranged in a shape that reflects the topic of the poem. Write your poem in small phrases or stanzas and use the rotate handle above a text box in Wixie to adjust the direction.

30. Create a coat of arms for a book character

A coat of arms is a symbolic representation of a family’s identity and values. Create a coat of arms for a book character for a creative way to showcase your comprehension of their traits. Search “coat of arms” in Wixie to open a template that makes it easy to color, add images, and write a motto. (template)

Explore a Character Coat of Arms lesson plan

31. The pros and cons of quarantine

Life is definitely different under quarantine. Is quarantine good, or bad, or both? Think about your experience and use a “Pros and Cons” organizer in Wixie to list them. Search “quarantine” at your Wixie home page or open a general Pros and Cons organizer by browsing Templates>Graphic Organizers. (template)

32. Write a fractured nursery rhyme

Wixie has an entire folder of templates you can use to write a fractured version of your favorite nursery rhyme.   Search “fracture” or browse Curriculum>Writing>Poetry>Fracture Nursery Rhymes. Have fun! (choice board)

33. Create a thank you card for your teacher

Tomorrow is Teacher Appreciation Day! Open the Templates at your Wixie home page and open the Stationery folder to find a thank you note starter you can use to type a letter to your teacher. Better yet, start a blank Wixie page and use the paint tools to create an original drawing. You can also use the image button and camera option to capture your picture!

Use the microphone tool to record your voice and let your teacher know how much you appreciate (and miss!) them, your teacher would love to hear from you. (template)

34. Make a pictograph

Pictographs are fun ways to show off data. Ask students to share the number of each pets they have at their home. Collect their answers and share the data with students. Search “pictograph” in Wixie to find a template that makes it easy to drag images to show the data with pictures. (template)

36. Write about your favorite relative

Practice opinion writing through a favorite relative project. Give structure to your emerging writers by asking them to state their opinion, share 2-3 reasons why, and finish with a concluding statement. Share students’ work with their favorite relative. (O-R-E-O Opinion template)

Explore a Favorite Relative lesson plan

37. Design an Animal Diary

Have students use personification to write a diary for an animal that teaches others about its unique physical characteristics, behaviors, and adaptations. (template)

Explore an Animal Diary lesson plan

38. Write a Mother’s Day Rebus

Read or watch I Love You, A Rebus Poem by Jean Marzollo. Challenge students to come up with reverse rhymes for their I Love You message. Great idea for mom! 

39. Create an ABC’s of… Book

After researching and learning about a topic such as geography, matter, ancient civilizations, or even the unique history and geography of your state, have students use Wixie to create an alphabet book to share knowledge they have learned, organizing their writing using the ABC’s. (template)

Have them each complete a book, or assign each student a single page and combine into a class book using Wixie’s Import Pages feature.

40. Persuade for a pet

Humane Societies and Pet Rescues are reporting record numbers of adoptions during quarantine. Encourage your students to write a letter or create a presentation in Wixie to persuade their family to get a new pet, supporting their opinion with reasons and examples. You can also search for “cluster” and “OREO” for graphic organizers to support research and thinking. (O-R-E-O and Letter templates)

Explore a Persuade for a Pet lesson plan

40. Write your own word problems

Visualizing word problems in Wixie by using the paint tools to draw models or by adding images from the media library can help students better identify key pieces of a problem and the relations between them.

Get step-by-step directions and more ideas for getting started with word problems in Wixie.

Explore a Multiplication Word Problems lesson plan

41. Send a chalk art message

To get a bit of a break from quarantine more and more people are walking the neighborhoods and many kids are creating chalk art messages to make them smile or give hope!

Search Wixie for “chalk” to find a template you can use to create a digital chalk art message. Export the image or copy the URL and send to a grandparent or share with an elderly neighbor who can’t get outside. (template)

42. Inform others about an endangered plant or animal

Use Wixie to create raise awareness or inform others about an endangered species. Search “trading card” at your Wixie home page for an easy template to help you to organize your writing to inform others about animals or plants in peril. (template)

43. Create a digital word wall

Students can use the “word wall” template in Wixie to create their own word wall. Assign to each learner so they can add words they do not know from books they are reading or hearing. Have students look up the meaning in a dictionary or ask a parent or teacher to help them define and add a picture and even voice recording. (template)

44. Create a class memory book

Use Wixie to create a memory book filled with each student’s favorite event from the school year. Have students use Wixie’s image, text, and recording tools to create their page, combine them together into one file in your teacher account, and publish online, as PDF, or print. (template)

Explore step-by-step directions for this idea.

45. Partition shapes

In second grade, students learn to partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares. Search “partition” in Wixie for a range of practice and play activities that help students grow to learn that equal shares doesn’t have to mean the same shape. (template)

46. Design a Habitat Snow Globe

Most students have or have seen a snow globe at home or at a tourist attraction. Ask students design a snow globe to showcase the animals and plants in a particular habitat. Search “snow globe” at the Wixie home page for a template. There is also a snow globe glass image in Wixie’s sticker’s library they can add to their file to add a glassy effect. (template)

Explore a Habitat Snow Globe lesson plan

47. Carve your own rock art

Petroglyphs are objects carved into rock by prehistoric people. Search “petroglyph” at your Wixie home page. Assign to students and they can use the Eraser tool to “carve” their own petroglyph image. Use the microphone tool to tell the story of the rock art. (template)

48. Publish a brochure for your neighborhood

What makes where you live special? Our families choose places to live based on economics, weather, family, geography, and culture. Have your students talk to their parents about why they chose to live where they do. Walk the neighborhood, take pictures, and use Wixie to create a brochure to let others know about the unique neighborhood you call home. Start from a blank page or search “brochure” at your Wixie home page to start from a template. (template)

49. Tell a data story

Read or watch Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins. This story describes a family with five creatures comparing features between them in many different ways. Have each student collect five creatures data for their home. Search “creatures” in Wixie to find a template students can use to collect data for five creatures in their home. (template)

Have students use this data to write their own five creatures story!

Explore other books that make for great literature adaptations. 

50. Create Silhouette Art

A silhouette is a sharp outline or shadow of an object. While students can always draw silhouette outlines, they can also create them using stickers from the Image library.

Start a new blank page. Use the Image button to find and add a sticker to the page. Simple stickers are best. This may also be a great time to talk about horizon line. 

Have students select each sticker, go to the Edit menu and choose Glue to Paint layer. Use the paint bucket to fill each sticker with black. Clean up spaces with the paint brush and add ground if necessary. Finally, select the Arrow tool and use the Background Picture button to find a colorful background!

Explore a Spooky Silhouettes lesson plan

20 Exciting Grade 2 Morning Work Ideas

Staring the day off at school is a great way to connect learning and fun. Thinking outside the box to include some hands-on and interactive activities for morning work can be very helpful in keeping students engaged and getting into a positive mindset for the learning ahead! Try these activities for morning work in your second-grade classroom!

1. Word Sorts

Word sorts can provide extra practice for spelling or phonics skills. Prep them by laminating and storing them in tubs or bags and you’ll have a ready-made morning work activity anytime!

Learn more: Second Story Window

2. Phonics Review Practice

Daily reading morning work can include phonics review practice with these easy-to-print worksheets. These can also be laminated and put into morning work tubs. Chang them outreach week so your weekly skills match your morning assignment!

Learn more: Lucky Little Learners

3. Parts of Speech Practice

Grammar practice is a great way to review parts of speech for morning work. These practice pages are great for practicing essential grammar skills.

Learn more: Lucky Little Learners

4. Morning Task Tubs

A fun morning tub activity is including hands-on and critical thinking tasks. Think outside the box and include tasks that encourage social skills and motor skills as well.

Learn more: Lindsey Kuster

5. Kaboom Money Game

Games like Kaboom are a fun alternative to regular seatwork. This type of morning work also provides an opportunity for students to work together. Kaboom can be played with many math, reading, or language arts skills.

Learn more: Second Grade Style

6. Phonics Search

Independent learning activities like these phonic printables are great ways to review and provide lots of practice with new skills. You could laminate and reuse or print as needed.

Learn more: Jessica Diary

7. Money Maker

Hands-on and practical for life skills, moneymaker tubs are great for morning work! include task cards to help students count money in different ways. You could include a recording sheet or a math worksheet to add another element to this morning work.

Learn more: Mrs. Beattie’s Classroom

8. Domino Addition

Domino addition is great for morning work or a math center. This is a good morning tub idea so students can have this and other options for choosing math review games.

Learn more: Mrs. Beattie’s Classroom

9. Writing Predictions

When mornings are rushed and busy, these minute prep, easy-to-store think and predict activities are ideal. The pictures encourage thinking, comprehension skills, and writing. You could even include partner work to encourage collaboration and listening and speaking skills.

Learn more: My Kind of Teaching

10. Poems and Building

A frantic morning calls for a quick and easy, strategy-based morning tub option. These promote hands-on activity poem riddles for students to read and develop their critical thinking skills.

Learn more: My Kind of Teaching

11. Sight Word Bowling

Sight word bowling will be a fun start to your school day! Use grade-level sight words or review 1st-grade sight words in this literacy-based bowling game. Get more sight word game ideas here.

Learn more: My Primary Paradise

12. Place Value Matching

Place value is such a critical concept for students to understand. Use morning work time to match numbers with their base ten representations. Students could record this in a morning work notebook or journal as well. Check out more place value game ideas here.

Learn more: Playdough to Plato

13. Telling Time Match Up

Matching games are always good options for morning work. Telling time is a complex skill that students need lots of practice in order to master. These simple matching games can be great for practicing telling time. You can even include a way to double-check through an answer key!

Learn more: 123 Homeschool 4 Me

14. Roll It, Add It

The Roll it, Add it game is tons of fun and can be done alone or with a partner. This is morning work that can be part of a morning work tub and allows for several choices for students to do each morning.

Learn more: My Fabulous Class

15. Pizza Fractions

Fractions are tough for most kiddos but using this pizza fraction pack game can spark interest and engagement. This is ideal for partner play during morning work. This spin and cover game is also good for reinforcing turn-taking and other social skills.

Learn more: So Cal Field Trips

16. Skip Counting Lacing Plates

Skip counting is a needed skill that is often underestimated in importance. These lacing plates are cheap and easy to make from basic classroom essentials. All you need is a paper plate, hole punch, sharpie, and yarn. These can be done for skip counting by 2, 5, 10, or even larger numbers.

Learn more: 123 Homeschool 4 Me

17. Dino Contractions

Dino contractions are a great way to start your morning procedures. These printable papers are a good review of skills. This could be part of a  morning work pack or morning work tub and could include an answer key so students can check their work as they finish each skill review.

Learn more: Amy Lynn

18. Stencil Stories

Morning routines have never been more fun than when you throw in some stencil stories to your 2nd grade morning work. Give students a stencil and a word bank and let their creative thoughts run! Review later and focus on 2nd grade skills, like complete sentences and adding detail to your writing.

Learn more: Mrs. Winter’s Bliss

19. Noun Hunt

These grammar practice sheets are a great addition to a morning work pack. Noun hunts are good for seeing how well students grasp the concept of parts of speech. You could do a verb hunt or adjective hunt as well. Use pictures for hunting the parts of speech or do it around the room in your classroom.

Learn more: Keeping My Kiddo Busy

20. Newsletters

Newsletters are a great way to include writing into morning work time. Students can write about their day at school and have daily practice with sequencing events, writing sentences, and reading to peers about what they wrote.

Learn more: Around the Kampfire

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1. Mathematical
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6. Compliance with grammar norms
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8. Sports
9. Video. Interesting activities for children 4-5 years old

Activities for children 4 years old must be not only educational, but also exciting. Remember that at 4 years old, the baby is not yet able to sit in one place for a long time (usually routine tests that require more than 40-50 minutes to pass are a difficult test for the child), so the presence of physical education (approximate exercises can be seen below) is mandatory. What activities are recommended for a 4-year-old child?

Classes with a 4-5 year old child will also be interesting for parents

Mathematical

It is at this age that it is worth preparing the child for school. In order for the lessons in the educational institution to be easily absorbed by children, it is recommended to spend time on mastering the following topics:

Basic geometry

position in space (for example, if the figures are arranged in a row, then the baby should be able to say which figure is before or after the selected one).

Studying geometric shapes

Materials to help with the activity: dotted drawings of geometric shapes, colorful charts of geometric shapes with real-life examples (e.g. triangular piece of cake, round button, etc.), charts with groups of geometric shapes, game “find extra figure.

Numbers and numbers

A child needs to learn how to count to at least ten (preferably forward and backward), and how to write numbers as accurately as possible. Usually, the following materials are used for teaching at home: copybooks, puzzles, simple examples. In order to teach a child to correlate an abstract number with real objects, it is better to use children’s favorite toys (for example, cars for boys and dolls for girls), or special counting sticks from which you can add all kinds of figures.

Learning to count with colorful numbers

Equalities and inequalities

The kid needs to understand the basic principles of comparison (greater than, less than or equal to) and learn how to create equal sets on his own. As in the previous case, it is better to use not boring black-and-white developmental tests, but favorite toys actively used by children (for example, you can play a fairy tale with children in which the main characters go to a holiday where there are only two tables, and you need to share the whole group into two equal parts).

Logic

The development of logic is extremely important, because the child has 2-3 years before school (according to psychologists, 4 years is the most suitable age for the child to master the necessary logical concepts).

Task Logical series

Teachers recommend that parents perform developmental exercises on the following topics:

Similar or different

The kid should be able to find matches or differences in the picture. Any pictures (preferably with a small number of elements so as not to confuse the child), carefully corrected in a graphics editor, will serve you as a very good material for studying on this topic for 1-2 years (you just need to replace the elements in the original image).

If you don’t want to make your own materials, you can purchase special educational books.

Find the general

The kid must find the general quality of some group of objects (dishes, blue objects, objects with a certain letter, and so on), and also calculate an extra object (for example, a wild animal from a group of domestic ones). For classes at home, a set of developing cards is usually used as materials. If you want to conduct lessons in nature, then use the entire environment as examples: for example, a green spruce would be superfluous in a group of yellow birches.

logical task “Find the difference”

Find an error

The kid must find errors both in the pictures and in the spoken text (for example, “I like to sled in the summer”). As teaching materials, you can use both self-made drawings (it is better to take pictures for the age of 2-3 years, since they do not contain many small details), and special educational aids.

Attention and memory concentration

The kid should not be distracted from the task they are performing for 5-10 minutes (while the lessons do not exceed 40-50 minutes in duration), in addition, the kid should remember the recently read or heard information. If you want to study at home, then you can use self-made cards (it is desirable that the images are as simple as possible. Multi-colored or black and white geometric shapes are suitable for a start): first, the baby looks at them for a while, and then lists the depicted objects from memory.

Cards for memorizing objects

No additional materials are needed for outdoor activities: at any time of the year you can use the objects around you: in winter – made snowmen, in autumn – colorful leaves.

Speech

At the age of 4, the baby especially needs communication. That is why you should pay attention to the exercises on the following topics:

Understanding speech

A child needs to know at least a thousand words (if you are not sure about the baby’s vocabulary, you can take tests to determine it), as well as building simple sentences . It is convenient to deal with this topic with the help of word games (for example, riddles, charades, danetki, and so on).

Tasks for the development of speech

Compliance with grammatical norms

The kid should not get confused in prepositions, genders and numbers of objects. If you observe “falling” words in a child, then it is best to correct errors by using cards.

Learning and writing letters

Transition to a foreign language

If the child is making progress in his native language, you can start learning the basics of a foreign language with him (usually parents decide to learn English or German with the child). A foreign language can be studied both at home and in special groups for preschoolers.

Sports

Sports development of the baby must be present, therefore, if you cannot send your son or daughter to the sports section, then do developmental exercises at home.

Sports activities at home

Ball games, exercises, simple dances and outdoor games are recommended.