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

  • Use the Writer’s Workshop model to complete personal narratives, informational writing, poetry, and journal entries for reflection and responses to reading
  • Follow the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
  • Study paragraph writing
  • Practice parts of speech, capitalization, and basic sentence punctuation
  • Practice manuscript letter formation using Handwriting Without Tears
  • Develop presentation skills through chapel presentations, publishing parties, and sharing at morning meeting

• Social Studies

  • People Power Skills - Supporting friendships, creating community, caring for one another
  • Change Makers - People who inspire change in their communities
  • 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

  • Using multiple strategies to solve problems, such as open number lines and splitting according to place value
  • Posing and solving word problems
  • Single and double digit addition and subtraction
  • Place value to 1,000
  • Measurement: time and length
  • Adding coins within a dollar
  • Geometry: shape attributes and vocabulary
  • Sorting, graphing, and interpreting data

• Science

  Amplify Science Curriculum
  

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

• Spanish

  The K-2 Spanish program engages students through active and fun lessons that include: songs for vocabulary development, pronunciation practice, speaking, and comprehension practice.
  
  Spanish class aims to spark student’s desire to become multilingual and learn about cultures in our increasingly transnational society.
  

• STEAM/Technology

  • What is Technology?
  • Digital Citizenship: online safety and unique usernames and passwords
  • iPad - acceptable use, resilience, and persistence

• 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

  • Group singing and pitch recognition
  • Continued solfege 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

• Community Engaged Learning

  • Help seniors at the weekly Food Co-op by assisting with restocking, purchasing, weighing, and bagging fresh produce and bread