Reading Return to Unit List
, Book 1
Grade 2  
Unit 2: Just Between Us
Jamaica Tag-Along
by Juanita Havill

Internet Connection Activity
     Cross Curricular
Sand Castles
Connect to this link:
http://www.sandcastlecentral.com/


  1. Click on Tips and Tricks then Hand-Stacking Tips for Beginners. Read "Build a Better Sand Castle" and look at the pictures.

  2. At the bottom of the page, click on Sand Castle Central. Scroll down to "Animated Sand Castle Slideshow" and click on the picture next to it.

  3. Watch a sand castle being built.

Medieval Castles
Connect to this link:
http://www.castles.org/Kids_Section/Castle_Story/parts.htm


  1. Look at the map of a castle. Click on the different parts to learn about them. Click on the yellow picture of the castle to go back to the map.

  2. Name three parts of a medieval castle


Internet Connection Activity
Famous Castles    Find Out More
The Hearst Castle
Connect to this link:
http://www.hearstcastle.org/history/


  1. See the outside of the castle.

  2. At the top of the page, click Tours.

  3. Click Tour One. Read about the rooms and gardens.

  4. Describe what you see.

  5. Explore Tour Two and Tour Three in the same way.

Windsor Castle
Connect to this link:
http://www.victorianstation.com/windsor.html


  1. Listen as your teacher tells about the castle.

  2. Click each picture to make it bigger.

  3. Click the Back arrow.

  4. Scroll down and see all of the pictures.


Internet Connection Activity
Fairy Tales and Folk Tales    Leveled Books
The Tortoise and the Eagle
Connect to this link:
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/theatre.htm


  1. Click on the picture next to "Myths," and then on the picture next to "The Tortoise and the Eagle." Print the page that comes up. When you return to your computer screen, click the picture.

  2. Click the tortoise to begin the myth. Click on the right feather to read more.

  3. When you are finished reading the myth, complete the worksheet by circling your answers.

Aesop's Fables
Connect to this link:
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/aesopsel.html


  1. Click The Lion and the Mouse.

  2. Read the fable.

  3. Then click Return.