Category Archives: Language Arts 2

Writing assignments from Sonlight’s Grade 2 Language Arts.

Week 3 – Fairy Tale Dialog

“What do you like doing best?” said Christopher Robin.

“Well,” said Pooh. “What I like doing best is when I come over to you and you say, ‘How ’bout a smackerel of honey?’”

“What I like doing best,” said Christopher Robin, “is just doing nothing.”

“How do you do nothing?” replied Pooh.

“Well, grownups ask you what are you going to do and you say, ‘Nothing.’”

“I like that! Let’s do it all the time,” said Pooh.

Week 35 – Free at Last! (Sword in the Tree)

When they got Lord Weldon out of the dungeon, Shan started telling him what happened. Lord Weldon was amazed at what they had done while he was locked up. He was amazed at how they had travelled so far on foot and how they had met King Arthur, and how he had took his sword of Lionel’s room. After Shan had finished telling his story, Lord Weldon asked where Marian was. Marian was surprised to see him again.

She said to Lord Weldon, “I thought you were dead!”

“Well, I am not dead,” said Lord Weldon with a smile.

After their conversation, they began to get things back on track. They sent away all of Lionel’s servants and got all of their own servants back that Lionel had sent away.

And Shan did become a knight.

The end.

Week 34 – All a Dream?


Splash! Nathan jumped into the water at the beach. He began swimming and accidentally swam into the deep parts. He tried to put his feet down but instead he began sinking in the ocean. Nathan thought he was going to die. But all of a sudden a big whale swam up to him and put him on his back and the whale swam out farther into the ocean. After a few hours, Nathan spotted a huge ship coming towards him, and the whale swam right up to the ship. So Nathan got off the whale and onto the ship. To his surprise, he found out that the captain of the ship was his brother Gabe. After Gabe showed Nathan around the ship, he began to sailed in the direction of home, but Nathan didn’t know which direction was home. When Gabe finally sailed into the Bow River, and Nathan recognized this place and knew where he was now. They hopped out of the boat and said goodbye to the crew and walked home down the path. When they got home, they told Mommy and Daddy what happened, then they had lunch. The End.

Week 33 – My Friend Venn

This is stuff that my brother Nathan does. He does not like math very much and I like math. He sleeps on the top bunk of our bunk bed and I sleep on the lower bunk. Nathan does not have glasses, but I do. We both read a lot. And we both like Lego. We have some things that are the same, and some things different, but we are still brothers and we love each other very much! (We don’t as much when we get into fights.)

The End

Week 32 – Poem about Home

After I napped, I zapped my wrap while looking at our map.
In my home, I combed my hair alone, then I threw a bone.
If my house didn’t have me, it would be sad, and that would be bad.
But since my house has me, my house is happy, happy as a bee that has enough honey.
My favorite thing about my home is the books, but I am not one who cooks books.
If I had to move, I would miss the map. It’s so big, bigger than a pig with a wig.

The End

Week 30 – Where Am I?

A journal of a Roman soldier, Antonius, transported through time to be in our world today.

April 27, 117 AD

Where am I? I saw people go into a horse carriage that moved without a horse! I saw one press down a thing with his foot and this carriage without a horse started to move very quickly. I also saw people pickup a little tablet, put it on their ear, and start talking to themselves. I thought these people were going crazy!

Then I walked into a place that had a sign that said “Shooting Range.” I saw a thing that looked like a giant bar with things sticking down at the end. And when you pulled something back it made a big loud noise. There was a little target down at the end and when they pulled back the little thing that made the big noise there was a hole in the target. I thought this was magic. I was too afraid to try one myself. I started to wonder if those things can make holes in armor.

I decided to go back home. I found the machine that had let me come to here and I hopped in it again and it brought me back home.

The End

Week 29 – Give It a Try!

Dear Mommy and Daddy,

May we please play with our Lego?

Lego is fun to build stuff with, so we can learn to be more creative when we are older. We already have made neat creations, like when Dad opened the door to our room and shut it again and then a Lego sword went swinging down at him. (That one was using twine and tape.)

Lego also helps you follow instructions. When you have to build things like shelves when you’re older and it comes with instructions on how to build it, you can follow them.

You can also make your own toys out of Lego so you don’t have to go to the store and buy other toys. You can just build them. We also can build stuff we are learning about. Plus we read books and build the stuff that they mention out of Lego. Like when Nathan built a blue sword from the Hobbit.

All the kids like to play with Lego. The girls like to build houses, and the boys like to build weapons that we can use (not Lego mini-figure weapons). And the axe that I made has a secret compartment inside it.

I’m sorry for making the Lego table a big mess and not keeping it organized. We promise we will clean up the Lego table when you ask us to. We won’t leave the Lego on the floor. And we will clean up all the Lego on the floor that we used to be playing with.

May we please have our Lego back?

Love,
Gabe

Week 27 – Painting with Words

Once upon a time the Stephens family (that’s us) wanted to go camping in the woods. So we packed up everything we needed, including burgers.  We put everything in the car and we drove for a long time to the woods. When we finally got there, we unpacked everything. 

While we were getting everything ready, Abigail wanted to go exploring. So she wandered off into the big woods. She wandered for hours while the rest of our family was looking for her. She saw all sorts of animals. Then she saw a baby deer. She ran fast to the baby deer and she named it Faline.  She held out a piece of lettuce that she took from the camp, and the deer ate the lettuce. They became friends.

Abigail hopped on the Faline’s back and made her ride around the woods so she could find our family’s camp.  It took a long time, but she finally found the camp. When she climbed off the deer’s back, she noticed that her family wasn’t there. So she sat down in a big pile of food and began eating. When Mommy and Daddy arrived back at the camp, they found her sitting in a pile of food, with a stomach ache. They said, “We have to go home now because we don’t have enough food for camping'” So the kids cried, and they packed up everything and went home.

The end.