Second Grade

List of 11 items.

• Reading & Literature

  • Develop reading comprehension strategies and vocabulary
  • Practice fluency, expression, accuracy, and decoding strategies
  • Predict, summarize, infer, and find the main idea in texts
  • Use mentor texts as models for writing
  • Identify non-fiction text features
  • Identify character traits
  • Build stamina with daily independent reading
  • Use evidence to support responses to literature

• Writing & Language Arts

  • Writer’s Workshop model
  • Personal narratives
  • Informational writing, poetry, and journal entries for reflection and responses to reading
  • Writing process- prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
  • Study paragraph writing
  • Parts of speech, capitalization, and basic sentence punctuation
  • Manuscript letter formation- Handwriting Without Tears
  • Presentation skills through chapel presentations, publishing parties, and sharing at morning meetings

• Social Studies

  • Identity - What makes us, us?  Exploring gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and tradition
  • Second Grade Zoo - creating a class zoo incorporating social justice, math, science, writing, and reading

• Mathematics

  • Use multiple strategies to solve problems, such as open number lines and splitting according to place value
  • Pose and solve word problems
  • Single and double-digit addition and subtraction
  • Place value to 1,000
  • Measurement: time and length
  • Add coins within a dollar
  • Geometry: shape attributes and vocabulary
  • Sort, graph, and interpret data

• Science

  • Plant & Animal Relationships Investigation
  • Properties of Materials Engineering Design
  • Changing Landforms Modeling

• Spanish

  • Songs for vocabulary development
  • Pronunciation practice and speaking
  • Comprehension practice
  • Become multilingual and learn about cultures in our increasingly transnational society
    

• Visual Arts

  • Exploring media
  • Creating in collaboration
  • Projects based on famous artists and their techniques
  • Painting: color wheel, color mixing
  • Collaboration with Performing Arts: masks, puppets, performance props

• Music

  • Chorus K-2
  • Group singing and pitch recognition
  • Continued solfège singing
  • Rhythm work with percussion
  • Movement and drama games

• Physical Education

  • Chasing, fleeing, and dodging
  • Supporting body weight for climbing and hanging
  • Identifying feelings related to challenges and successes
  • Modeling good sportsmanship
  • Playing cooperative games
  • Swimming: skills and confidence

• Library

  • Parts of a book 
  • Read Aloud - identify character traits in the protagonist
  • Parts of a book 
  • Using nonfiction book features - looking up a topic for research

• Community Engaged Learning

  • People Power Skills - Supporting friendships, creating community, caring for one another
  • Change Makers - People who inspire change in their communities
  • California Native Plants- a gardening project