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2nd Grade

Second Grade is a wonderful place to be. It is such a time of discovery and learning to use all the skills learned in first grade. This age group is growing in independence by leaps and bounds.

The wonders of science open up new doors of exploration and awe through experiments and research. Opening the door even wider, is the use of our “eee” computers. Social Studies lessons give us an appreciation for diverse neighborhoods and communities. Community Service projects help us grow as good citizens.

Math and reading subjects are refined and enhanced with new skills. In reading, we have Book Club where the students use cards to write questions about the stories they have read. As the students sit in a circle, they are in charge of taking turns and asking the questions.

The mastery of cursive handwriting makes us feel we are a part of the grown-up world. As part of this time of growing, students are encouraged to be problem solvers by allowing each a chance to tell their side of the story and listen to others.


Curriculum Summary

Reading


  • Fact and opinion
  • Inferences
  • Main Idea
  • Details
  • Sequencing
  • Classifying
  • Drawing conclusions
  • Making Judgments
  • Context Clues
  • Decoding
  • Following directions
  • Using a dictionary
  • Using a table of contents
  • Predicting outcomes
  • Synonyms/Antonyms/Homonyms
  • Vocabulary/word usage
  • Cause/effect
  • Syllables
  • Parts of a book
  • Fiction/non-fiction
  • Using references
  • Poetry
  • Graphic organizers
  • Story characters
  • Moral/Parts of a story
  • The Writing Process
  • Letter Writing
  • Phonics

  • Auditory discrimination
  • Consonant letter-sound assoc.
  • Hard and soft c and g
  • Consonant-vowel-consonant blending
  • Short vowel letter-sound
  • Long vowel letter-sound
  • Compound and two-syllable
  • Consonant blends
  • Y as a vowel
  • Consonant digraphs
  • Inflectional endings
  • Suffixes and prefixes
  • Vowel pairs and digraphs
  • Diphthongs

Social Studies


  • Landforms
  • Neighborhoods and Communities
  • Working together: Rules, laws, leaders, voting, city hall
  • Pioneers: Westward movement, food, clothing, social activities, schools, homes, chores
  • Native Americans: Regions, songs, dance, customs, legends, language, names
  • Celebrate America: Our flag, famous presidents, national symbols, pledge of allegiance, patriotic songs, the White House, Capitol, Famous Americans, national monuments, national holidays
  • Wants and needs: Basic human needs, wants, factory, goods, services, taxes, volunteers, consumers, and jobs
  • Maps and globes: Symbols, terms, landforms, directions, water forms
  • Landforms: Continents, water forms, surface changes
  • Hemispheres
  • Regions

Writing Process (all subjects)


  • Prewrite
  • Rough draft
  • Revise
  • Edit
  • Publish

English


  • Sentences structure
  • Parts of a sentence
  • Statements
  • Questions
  • Word order
  • Using I
  • Editing/Proofreading
  • Mechanics:
  • Capitalization
  • Punctuation
  • Days/holidays/months
  • Titles of people
  • Titles of books
  • Sentences
  • Dates
  • Names and places
  • Suffixes/prefixes
  • Conjunctions
  • Articles
  • Nouns: proper nouns, more than one, adding –es, nouns that change spelling
  • Pronouns
  • Verbs: present tense, past tense, adding –ed, forms of be, forms of have, contractions
  • Adjectives
  • Adding –er, -est
  • Adverbs
  • Prepositions
  • Compound words
  • ABC Order
  • Dictionary skills
  • Abbreviations
  • Rhyming words

Cursive writing introduced mid-first semester

Mathematics


  • Counting: to 2,000 backwards by ones, twos, fives, tens even/odd numbers ordinal numbers
  • Addition: terminology, memorize families 1-18, add/subtract dollars/cents, estimate sums, add/subtract w/borrowing, to ten thousands
  • Problem solving
  • Logic/patterns
  • Place value to ten-thousands
  • Rounding: nearest tens, nearest dollar
  • Roman numerals
  • Order three numbers
  • Money: pennies, dimes, nickels, half-dollars, dollars
  • Time—to five minutes
  • Temperature
  • Non-standard measurement: cups, pints, quarts, gallons, kilograms, pounds, liters, yard, foot, inches, centimeter
  • Graphs: vertical, horizontal, picture, line, pie, grids, Venn diagrams, tally mark, and bar graphs
  • Geometry: sort shapes, solids, identify vertexes, find perimeter, symmetry
  • Fractions
  • Word problems
  • Multiplication
  • Division

Science


  • Physical Science
  • Matter
  • Motion
  • Forces
  • Energy
  • Light
  • Life Science
  • Plant structures
  • Animal structures
  • Diversity and adaptation
  • Heredity/reproduction
  • Environments
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Dynamic Earth
  • Fossils
  • Soil
  • Land and water forms
  • Weather patterns
  • Space
  • Moon phases
  • Solar system
  • Process and Application
  • Scientific investigation
  • Tools of science
  • Experimental process
  • Safety
  • Use math in scientific Inquiry
  • Science and technology careers

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