Your students will love these fun writing activities and you’ll love the creative hallway displays you can make with them! I’ve rounded up my favorite Spring writing activities for second grade, plus examples of the hallway displays we’ve created around them. They’re perfect for a Spring open house or an end-of-the-year celebration of learning!
Ah….Spring! It’s the perfect time of year for writing about science! Add these writing activities to your units on weather, life cycles, plants, butterflies, and more!
Spring Writing Activities for Second Grade
Write Weather Safety Guides
One of our topics in science is weather and students learn about different kinds of weather and the natural hazards of severe weather situations. Our writing project during this topic is to write natural hazard safety guides telling families how to take care during severe weather situations like floods, tornados, storms, extreme cold, and more.
These planning pages and booklet templates are part of this weather and climate science unit but you could certainly make your own.
Write All About Spring Break
Getting your class back on track after Spring Break can be a feat, especially if they all have Spring fever! It can be hard to refocus your class the first week back, but these FREE Spring Break writing prompts can help!
Have your students tell you all about their break but have them do it in writing! As you reset your routines and procedures after the break, reestablish your journal writing routines, too. Use the 5 included writing prompts, one each day, for that first week back.
The prompts are formatted in easy-cut strips so students can glue them inside their journals. Easy peasy!
Spring Writing Activities About Life Cycles
During the Spring months we raise butterflies in our classroom and do a variety of life cycle projects. One fun way to get kids writing about science is to have them write about the life cycles they are learning.
Butterfly Life Cycle
During our butterfly life cycle unit students create these foldable butterfly booklets. Each component correlates to a minilesson and students write to explain what they have learned about the parts of a butterfly and caterpillar, the compound eye, pollination, and more.
The booklets make a wonderful addition to our life cycle hallway display that we set up at the end of the year for a celebration of learning.
Free Butterfly Kids Writing Activity
This fun and FREE Butterfly writing activity is an easy way to make a Spring bulletin board. I take pictures of each student, print them out at school in black and white (although you could certainly print them in color) and fold tissue paper squares to make butterfly wings.
Then we add them to our hallway display for our Spring open house. All the directions and the flower writing templates needed to make the butterfly kids are included in the free download.
Plant Life Cycle
Following our butterfly unit we move on to our plant life cycle unit. One of our favorite Spring writing activities to do during this unit is a foldable flower booklet. Similar to the butterfly booklets, students write to explain what they are learning about the different aspects of the plant life cycle and glue them into their booklets.
During our study of the plant life cycle we explore the interdependence of plants and animals, do several seed science experiments and investigate plant needs.
Frog Life Cycle
If you have access to tadpoles, observing the frog life cycle is always a highlight! This frog life cycle craft is a fun way to have your students write about each stage of the frog life cycle.
Students plan their writing first before adding it to the lily pad booklets.
Board Ideas Using the Spring Writing Activities
If you’re looking for ideas for a Spring hallway display, I’ve written a blog post with lots of Spring writing activities and pictures the life cycle garden hallway display we created for our Spring open house.
I hope you’ve found some Spring writing activities to do with your students. If you found this post helpful, please share it with your teacher friends on your social media channels!
For more Spring classroom ideas check out these posts:
How to Raise Butterflies in the Classroom
Fun Ways to Teach the Plant Life Cycle
Butterfly Life Cycle Activities & Free Printables
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