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Second Grade Curriculum
The Curriculum, as outlined below, represents the goals we have established for our students. It is our expectation that all students will work towards achieving these goals to the best of his/her ability. We offer a student centered learning environment designed to meet individual needs while developing a cooperative community spirit. To enhance their creative frontiers... this is our goal!
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Language Arts/Reading
- Phonics
- Review vowel combinations, including basic sounds, vowel combinations, blends and digraphs.
- Identify the number of syllables in a word
- Learning about Language
- Sentences
- Nouns - Singular and Plural
- Verbs - Past and Present
- Adjectives
- Antonyms and Synonyms
- Punctuation
- Pronouns
- Compound Words
- Writing
- Listening
- Sentences, Paragraphs - Thinking Clearly, and Using Description in writing
Book Reports
- Writing letters and poetry
- Reading
- Literature - based upon class interests, and reading level of the students. Independent free reading plus use of reading textbooks.
- Poetry
- Classic Stories
- American Tall Tales
- Myths from Ancient Greece
- Familiar Sayings
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Geography
- The Americas
- The United States Today
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- US and World Globe
- Maps and Symbols
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History
- Review of Prehistoric and Early Civilizations
- Civilizations in Asia
- Ancient Greece
- American History and Geography
- Our Constitution
- The War of 1812
- Westward Ho
- The Civil War
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Civil Rights
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Social Studies
- Current Events
- Neighborhoods and communities
- Citizenship values
- Working together
- Early settlers and history
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Math
- Numbers
- Skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's
- Even and odd numbers
- Counting with a tally
- Using graphs
- Mastery of a number line through 999
- Calendar and ordinal numbers
- Introduction to Roman Numerals
- Place value through the thousands
- Counting between hundreds, and beyond
- Comparing 3 digit numbers
- Utilizing <, >, = with number problems
- Addition
- Addition facts with 13-18
- Adding in any order, and with 3 numbers
- Doubles and halves
- Sum of 10
- Checking addition
- Find the missing number
- Adding 2 and then 3 digit numbers
- Adding horizontally, vertically, and in your head
- Regrouping 10's as 100's
- Subtraction
- Subtraction facts with 13-18
- Checking subtraction
- Subtraction from a 3 digit number
- Subtraction and regrouping hundreds
- Find the missing number
- Subtracting horizontally, vertically, and in your head
- Money
- Coins and dollar bills
- How many ways do coins make up a dollar
- Quarters and counting by 25
- Counting money
- Adding and subtracting money
- Word Problems
- Measurement
- Using rulers for length
- Measuring time: Calendars
- Measuring time: Clock time to 5 minutes
- Measuring time: half and quarter hours
- Measuring time: how much time has passed
- Recognizes and uses metric units of meter and litre
- Recognizes and uses customary units
- Measures sides of polygon to determine circumference
- Geometry
- Plane figures
- Solid figures
- Points, lines, and segments
- Lines of symmetry
- Differentiates open and closed figures
- Multiplication
- Practicing multiplication
- Multiplying by 10
- 3 rules for multiplication
- Word problems and missing factors
- Fractions
- Metric Units
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Science
- The cycle of life and the seasons
- Animal groups
- Solar system
- Plant studies
- The water cycle
- The human body
- Magnetism
- Simple machines
- Landforms
- Dinosaurs
- Heat
- Sound
- Stories about scientists:
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Florence Nightingale
- Daniel Hale Williams
- Elijah McCoy
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Fine Arts
- Lines and movement
- Looking at sculptures
- Looking at landscapes
- Animals real and imagined
- Abstract art
- Architecture; the art of designing buildings
- Artist study - pick an artist, study his/her life and works.
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Music
- Many different types of music
- Meet some great composers
- Families of Instruments
- Keyboard Instruments
- Writing music down
- Follow the notes
- A musical scale
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Physical Education
- Following Game Rules
- Develop team effort
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Library
- To learn research skills to aid in book reports.
- To learn respect for books.
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Computers
- Refine word processing skills
- To learn how to publish own papers, etc. on computer
- To utilize the internet as a research tool
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