Did you know that your Brain cannot resist a question? What color are your eyes?
Why Ask Me Smarter?
Because AMS provides parents and homeschool families with an all-in-one resource to further empower their kids with essential knowledge. Because AMS encompasses 1170 kid-engaging, curriculum-aligned questions and answers in the core areas of Language Arts, Social Studies, Civics, Science, and Math for 2nd Grade. Because parents are their children’s first and most influential teachers! Because knowledge is potential power!
Comprehensive / Curriculum-aligned / Research-based Questions:
The progressive questions directly align with state content standards per subject and grade level. The questions are designed to enhance, review, and reinforce the facts and concepts in the core content areas that elementary school children are already learning. Many questions represent “I CAN” statements reflecting the learning goal.
With Ask Me Smarter you will know exactly what your 2nd Grader needs to know!
Homeschool and Summer Bridge:
AMS is a go-to supplemental resource for HOMESCHOOLING families! It also serves as a summer "BRIDGE" tool or "road trip" companion for reinforcing learned concepts, for preparing students for the next grade level, and for preventing the proverbial "SUMMER SLIDE!"
LANGUAGE ARTS: Many of the ELA questions encompass spelling, phonics, readings, literary genres, and essential grammar facts. Specific 2nd Grade questions include: consonants; long and short vowels; synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, prefixes, suffixes, punctuation; present and past tense verbs; basic computer skills, and 2nd Grade SIGHT words.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Many of the social studies questions encompass geography, history, peoples, regions, and cultures. Specific 2nd Grade questions include: cities, states, regions, states, and continents; oceans; maps; cardinal directions; atlas; almanac; rivers, lakes, and oceans; deserts; mountain ranges; country languages, capitals, customs, currencies, and foods; Native Americans; and Pilgrims.
CIVICS: The focus of this chapter is to prompt children to think about all levels of government, the role of the citizen, and the importance of becoming contributing members of the community, the state, and the nation.
SCIENCE: The science questions encompass a wide array of scientific topics including astronomy, biology, chemistry, Earth science, ecology, geology, physics, weather/climate, and zoology. Specific 2nd Grade questions include: matter; temperature; metric; poles and magnets; food chain; consumers and producers; plants; animals; migration; hibernation; habitats, biomes; sun, moon, and planets; Earth rotation and revolution; weather, climate, and seasons; weather instruments; erosion and weathering; and simple machines.
MATH: The questions encompass math skills, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, operations, fractions, time, and money. Specific 2nd questions include : skip counting; patterns; odds and evens; ordinal numbers; equations, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; fact families, lines, graphs, and charts; number sequencing; place value; regrouping; fractions; rounding; time, time zones, and calendar; measurement – U.S. Customary and Metric; measurement tools, currency value; geometric shapes, area; perimeter; probability; range, median, and mode; and simple word problems.
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Donna M. Roszak is a lifelong resident of Wisconsin where she lives with her husband and two sons. In between taking care of her family and teaching Spanish, she writes simplified versions of school curriculum guides. She was inspired to create the Ask Me Smarter series as a result of her frustration with interpreting convoluted elementary textbooks and curriculum learning targets to help her own two children during their formative years. She subscribes to the notion that learning does not necessarily align with chronological age. She believes that all children can learn and benefit through this engaging, progressive questioning format. She hopes all parents share in her passion for helping school-age children learn and grow, for empowering them with the reinforcement of essential knowledge and facts, and for providing them the tools to become life-long learners and informed members of our global society. To learn more you can visit her at her website: http://www.askmesmarter.com
