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Thanksgiving Activities No-Prep Packet: Word Search, Crossword & Mazes for 1st–2nd Grade
34 no-prep Thanksgiving pages for 1st and 2nd grade: word search, picture crossword, mazes, make ten, doubles, color by code and a 10-day plan.
☀️Twenty days of November morning work for 2nd grade: spiral math in two levels and daily ELA review, with trackers and answer keys. Children start on their own while the teacher settles the room, and the Skills by Day chart shows exactly what each day revisits.
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November mornings run better when the first ten minutes are already planned, and this set plans all twenty of them. It is spiral morning work for 2nd grade: 20 days of math and ELA review that revisit skills instead of introducing new ones, so children can start on their own while the teacher takes attendance and settles the room.
The math comes in two levels. Level 1 works on addition and subtraction without regrouping, 2-digit place value, time to the half hour and coins to 50 cents. Level 2 works on addition and subtraction with regrouping, 3-digit place value, 10 and 100 more and less, time to 5 minutes and quarters. Each math page has 3 large addition and 3 large subtraction problems, a fall word problem, and a 'Turkey Feathers' box showing 3 ways to make a number.
The ELA pages cover the same twenty days: Fix It, Phonics, Grammar, Word Work, ABC Order, and Read and Answer, plus a star challenge. Student and class trackers let children see their own streak, and 12 answer-key pages keep checking quick. A Skills by Day chart covering the 20 days shows the teacher exactly what each day reviews.
The set is designed for 2nd grade, and the listing notes two extra uses: it works as a challenge for higher 1st graders and as grammar and phonics review for 3rd grade. That makes it useful well past morning work — for 2nd-grade homework, Thanksgiving early finishers, small-group and intervention work, daily math warm-ups and sub plans.
📖 Teaching guide · 13 min readNovember Morning Work for 2nd Grade: Twenty Days of Spiral Math, Grammar and PhonicsRead the guide →Spiral review works because it revisits skills right before they fade, and this set does it in a routine children can run themselves: the same page shape every day, two math levels, and a tracker that shows the streak. The teacher gets twenty calm mornings and a chart that shows what each day covered.
It is designed for 2nd grade. The listing also notes it works as a challenge for higher 1st graders and as grammar and phonics review for 3rd grade.
There are 20 days of morning work: Math Level 1 and Level 2 (20 pages each) and ELA pages (20 pages), plus student and class trackers and 12 answer-key pages.
Level 1 covers addition/subtraction without regrouping, 2-digit place value, time to the half hour and coins to 50 cents. Level 2 covers regrouping, 3-digit place value, 10/100 more and less, time to 5 minutes and quarters.
The ELA pages cover Fix It, Phonics, Grammar, Word Work, ABC Order, and Read and Answer, plus a star challenge.