A personalized 2nd grade workbook where your child is the hero
Second grade is the year of place value and fluency: adding and subtracting within 100, hundreds, tens and ones, money, time to five minutes and measuring. In English, contractions, adjectives, compound words and putting events in order.
Every page is built for one child: their name in the problems and stories, the world they pick, the things they love. One quest a day, about 20 minutes, printed at home.
What 2nd grade learns in the book
Each new skill gets its own lesson page — a picture, the steps and a worked example — before the practice starts. Skills from the year before come back as warm-ups and Friday review.
Math — new this year
- ★Place Value
- ★Addition
- ★Subtraction
- ★Even & Odd
- ★Equal Groups
- ★Money
- ★Telling Time
- ★Measuring
Reading & writing — new this year
- ★Compound Words
- ★Capitals & Periods
- ★Contractions
- ★Adjectives
- ★Synonyms & Antonyms
- ★Putting Things In Order
- ★Write!
2nd Grade Common Core standards covered
The exact codes print on the grown-ups page of every book, so you can see what each week practiced.
- 2.NBT.A.1Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent hundreds, tens and ones.
- 2.NBT.A.2Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s and 100s.
- 2.NBT.B.5Fluently add and subtract within 100.
- 2.OA.C.3Determine whether a group of objects has an odd or even number of members.
- 2.OA.C.4Use addition to find the total number of objects in rectangular arrays.
- 2.MD.A.1Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers.
- 2.MD.C.7Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes.
- 2.MD.C.8Solve word problems involving dollar bills and coins.
- L.2.1Use collective nouns, irregular plurals and adjectives correctly.
- L.2.2Capitalize holidays, product names and geographic names; use apostrophes in contractions.
- L.2.4.dUse knowledge of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words.
- L.2.5Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related words.
- W.2.3Write narratives recounting a well-elaborated event in order.
- RI.2.2Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text.
Struggling with something? Weight the book toward it
Pick a focus when you build the book and those skills come up about three times as often, without dropping anything else.
Addition & subtraction facts
More daily practice until the basics are automatic.
Place value & big numbers
Hundreds, thousands, and knowing what each digit means.
Word problems
Turning a sentence into a sum — usually the real difficulty.
Telling time & money
The practical math that shows up every day.
Shapes, area & measuring
Shapes, measuring length, area, perimeter, angles and volume.
Reading comprehension
Understanding and explaining what was just read.
Writing longer answers
Getting more than one sentence onto the page.
Grammar & punctuation
Capitals, periods, commas and apostrophes.
Vocabulary & spelling
Word building, prefixes, roots and confusable words.
Eight worlds to choose from
The same 2nd grade curriculum, told as a different adventure. The world names the chapters, the companion and the word problems.
Academy of Magic
Space Explorers
Deep Sea Discovery
Dinosaur Dig
Soccer Champions
All-Star Stadium
Detective Agency
Superhero Squad
Try the first five days free
Type your child’s name and 25 real pages of their 2nd grade book arrive by email. If they ask for day 6, the full month is $39 — one-time, not a subscription.
- ★20 daily pages — math, reading and writing
- ★Reading passages chosen around what they love
- ★A Research Quest project and a diploma
- ★Answer keys and the standards covered
- ★Print at home as often as you like