Summer Math for Rising 2nd Graders

An 8-week plan for a child starting 2nd grade in the fall: about 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Weeks 1 to 6 review 1st grade skills. Weeks 7 and 8 are a first look at 2nd grade. It uses 26 free games that run in the browser, with no ads and no sign-up.

How to use it

Each day, your child picks any game from this week's list and plays for about 10 minutes.
Then they colour one box on the calendar. The calendar has no dates, so it never runs out.
Skipping a day, or a whole week, is fine. Just pick up where you left off. There is nothing to catch up on.

Week 1: Addition facts to 20

What it practises: Quick addition facts, doubles and near doubles.

Week 2: Subtraction facts

What it practises: Taking away, and seeing how addition and subtraction facts belong together.

Week 3: Tens and ones

What it practises: What each digit in a two-digit number is worth, and 10 more or 10 less.

Week 4: Comparing numbers

What it practises: Which number is greater or less, and placing numbers in order.

Week 5: Clocks and calendars

What it practises: Reading the hour and half hour, and days and dates on a calendar.

Week 6: Shapes and equal shares

What it practises: Sides and corners of shapes, and splitting a shape into halves and quarters.

Week 7: Coins and counting by 5sfirst look at 2nd grade

What it practises: Counting coins and skip counting, both used a lot in 2nd grade.

Week 8: Bigger numbersfirst look at 2nd grade

What it practises: Hundreds, tens and ones, and adding two-digit numbers in your head or in columns.

Summer math calendar: rising 2nd grade

Colour one box each day you play for about 10 minutes. Missed a day? That's fine. Just colour the next box when you play again.

Week	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
1. Addition facts to 20Add Attack · Doubles Dash · Snack Bar Tapper · Bond Breaker	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min
2. Subtraction factsSubtract Squad · Fact Family Forge · Number Line Jumps	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min
3. Tens and onesPlace Value Blocks Bay · Number Word Match · More Less Meadow · Hundred Chart Hunt	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min
4. Comparing numbersGator Gulp · Bigger Bite · Count Quest	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min
5. Clocks and calendarsClock Climb · Clockwork Cove · Calendar Quest	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min
6. Shapes and equal sharesShape Shipyard · Shape Splitter · Tangram Harbor	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min
7. Coins and counting by 5sMoney Market · Coin Hunt · Skip Trip	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min
8. Bigger numbersPlace Value Port · Mental Math Mesa · Column Crunch	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min

Free games for every week: kidsdomath.com/summer-math/rising-2nd-grade