Reading
This year your child will learn different strategies to increase their reading fluency. Your child will work to build critical thinking and comprehension skills. Author studies and reading different genres of literature will help deepen their understanding of literature. In our classroom we will learn:
* Ways to decode words
* How to identify and explain different genres of literature
* How to make inferences while reading
* How to predict what will happen next in the story
* How to compare and contrast the similarities and differences in characters
* How to make connections to things they are familiar with while reading
* How to draw conclusions about characters in a story
* How to use context clues to define vocabulary words in a story
You can help your childat home by asking your child different questions about what they read. Frequent visits to the public library or bookstore will help them develop a passion for reading. You will receive more specific information at our Curriculum Night regarding reading questions to use with your child.
Writing
This year your child will continue to expand their writing using proper nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Your child will continue to work on writing complete sentences with correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. We will focus on writing personal narratives, imaginative narratives, poetry, and informational paragraphs. In our classroom we will learn:
* How to identify and write strong beginnings and endings
* How to add elaborative details to a story
* How to extend sentences using proper nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs
* How to use correct punctuation and capitalization
* How to spell words correctly
* How to brainstorm ideas for writing a story
* How create a story plan
* How to use the writing process to publish meaningful stories
You can help your child to build their writing skills by having your child write letters to their family members or by allowing your child write in a journal about their day or week.
Science
In science your child will learn about different animal life cycles,states of matter, different types of weather, and sound through projects, experiments, and field trips. In the classroom we will learn:
* How to identify and describe different animal life cycles
* How to identify and explain the different characteristics of the states of matter
* How to graph different types of weather
* How to define sound
Social Studies
In Social Studies your child will discover characteristics about different neighborhoods and communities. Your child will learn about citizenship, rules, and our government. They will also learn how to read and create maps and compare the likenesses and differences of people in different communities. In the classroom we will learn:
* How to create and read different types of maps
* How to identify and use cardinal directions
* How to identify characteristics of rural, suburban, and city communities
* How to identify and compare and contrast characteristics of different culture
2nd Grade Curriculum
Subject Area / First Quarter / Second Quarter / Third Quarter / Fourth QuarterMath / *Place Value &
Number Sense
through 200*Estimation
*Addition & Subtraction strategies without regrouping
*Develop fluency with addition and subtraction facts
*Problem solving
*Odd/Even#'s *Temperature and measurement
*Venn Diagrams (two circles)
*Pictographs
*Growing patterns using shapes and numbers
*Write number sentences and use symbols to represent unknown / *Place Value & Number Sense through 500
*Estimation
*Addition & Subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers.Regrouping with addition only.
*Develop fluency with addition and subtraction facts
*Problem solving *Measurement
*Venn Diagrams with 3 circles
*Pictographs
*Growing patterns using shapes and numbers
*Write number sentences and use symbols to represent unknown*Symmetrical and congruent shapes
*Two and three dimensional shapes / *Place Value & Number Sense through 999
*Estimation
*Addition & Subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers with regrouping
*Develop fluency with addition and subtraction facts
*Problem solving
*Venn Diagrams with 3 circles
*Pictographs
*Growing and repeating patterns using shapes and numbers
*Write number sentences and use symbols to represent unknown
*Symmetrical and congruent shapes
*Two and three dimensional shapes
*Fractions
*Time
*Probability / *Place Value & Number Sense through 999
*Estimation
*Addition & Subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers with regrouping
*Develop fluency with addition and subtraction facts
*Problem solving *Odd/Even#'s *Temperature and measurement
*Venn Diagrams with 3 circles
*Pictographs
*Growing and repeating patterns using shapes and numbers
*Write number sentences and use symbols to represent unknown
*Symmetrical and congruent shapes
*Two and three dimensional shapes
*Fractions
*Time
*Probability
Science / *Life Cycles
Goal : The learner will conduct investigations/build understanding of animal life cycles
Life Cycles of Butterflies
We will learn about:
- Animal life cycles
- Insect life cycles
compare/contrast life cycles / *Matter
Goal: The learner will observe and conduct investigations to build an understanding of changes in properties.
We will learn about:
- states of matter
- changing matter
-mixing matter / *Weather
Goal:The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate tools to build an understanding of the changes in weather.
We will learn about:
- Moving Air
-Weather
/water cycle
heat from the sun-liquids, gas, solidswith water cycle and clouds / *Sound
Goal:The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technology to build an understanding of sound.
We will learn about:
-vibration/frequency
-how the ear hears
-variety of instruments
Social Studies / - living in a community.
- good citizens
-government
-citizen of many communities
-rules
-election process / -people and cultures
-community celebrations / -neighborhoods
-needs and wants
- trading goods
- jobs
- change over time
- maps
- resources / -landforms/geography
- maps
-culture
- people at work
- family life
-jobs and money
-technology