United States Essential Activities for Grade 2

Time for some geography lessons. The kids can face some tough time sometimes, learning the regions of USA. Let’s start with the 5 US regions named as: • West • Midwest • Southwest • Northeast • Southeast There is a total of 50 states in the US. Now to make the kid learn you would need to prepare a worksheet for them. The kid must be able to match some of the most famous states to their particular region to which they belong. You can use some colors to make it easier for the kid. Don’t expect him to able to just learn everything by heart at once. Kids need time too. So how about making the states and the region with the same color. This way the kid would be able to identify easily and will remember much better. For example, Texas belongs to the southwest region. Florida believes the southeast, Montana belongs to the west region and Maine belongs to the northeast region of US. I think this much information would be enough for the first lesson.

If your kid is at that stage of his life when he should start learning about the government, what it does and what do the sectors in the government do then it is an undeniable fact that you first need to teach them about the different departments of the local government of the US.For starters, the local government is divided into sectors and each sector is assigned a particular duty. For example, when we talk about the state and city governments, they are divided into different departments like the department of water, the department of fire, police, sanitation, recreation, and transportation.Long story short, these departments take care of the basis on which a state or country runs.

There is a total of three branches of the government and kids are supposed to know what these branches are in detail and how they work because this is a part of the basic knowledge about a country that everyone must know.The three parts are: • The Executive • The Legislative • The Judiciary The Executive:The executive part of the government is based on the President of the country and 5000,000 workers. All the laws that are made by the Legislative branch are enforced by the President. On the other the President is elected by the citizens of the United States, the age of the President must be 18 or above.The Legislative:There are a lot of educational videos for toddlers on the internet where you can learn about the Legislative easily. The Legislative is also known as the Congress and the Congress is further divided into two parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives.The Judiciary:The 9 Justices and the Supreme court are together called the Judiciary. There are judges in this case who interpret the laws as per the Constitution.

Journey to Jamestown is a famous story, and it is taught to schools at preschool and kindergarten level. The tale covers the journey for kids who embark on a journey to Jamestown, and they learn more about each other on the way. The tale discusses the stories of two kids belonging to the Jamestown settlement in Virginia in the year 1608. The story features Elias, a boy, who has traveled from England. He works with the barber-surgeon and he helps the colonists to conquer disease spreading across the world. Also, the story also talks about Sacachocan, a Native American girl, who has the gift and ability to heal people. She crosses her path with Elias, and they both find their common grounds as healers. But, the main head of the Elias Colony betray her tribe, and it makes her hesitant to trust the colonists, which also include Elias.