Overview & Highlights

Second Grade

  • Monday - Friday

  • 8:30 am - 3:15 PM

 
 

Curriculum Highlights

Religion:

  • Weekly Bible verses to memorize

  • Weekly Chapel services

  • Growing in God’s Word through studies of Old and New Testament

  • Daily Prayer

Reading:

Working with words: (Phonemic Awareness)

  • Making Words Activities

  • Word Patterns

  • Word Segments

  • Classroom Word Wall

  • Short & Long Vowel Recognition

  • Consonant Blends Recognition

  • Vowel Blends Recognition

Guided Reading: (Phonics & Comprehension Skills)

  • Thematic Stories

  • Story Elements

  • Compare and Contrast

  • Main Idea

  • Cause and Effect

  • Summarizing

  • Fantasy and Reality

Self-Selected Reading:

  • Daily silent reading

  • Identifying individual book levels

  • Accelerated Reader program

  • Utilizing school library and public library as resources

Spelling:

  • Weekly lists coincide with Reading Program

  • Words with Spelling Patterns

  • High-Frequency Words

  • Words with Irregular Spellings

Writing:

  • Using complete sentences

  • Implementing steps of writing process

  • Paragraph, reports, letter-writing, story writing, poetry

  • Incorporating themes from Guided Reading as writing topics

  • Current spelling words and word wall words are incorporated into writing assignments

  • Identifying purposes for writing

Language Arts:

  • Identifying parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, etc.)

  • Capitalization and Punctuation

  • Homophones, homographs, antonyms, synonyms

  • Dictionary Skills

  • Grammar lessons are based on stories from reading program

Science:

  • Plants and Animals

  • Water Cycle

  • Earth Changes Over Time

  • Light and Color

  • Beginning Use of Scientific Method

  • Thematic units and Hands-on Experiments

  • Basic Health Concepts

Math:

  • Addition and Subtraction facts and strategies

  • Adding and Subtracting 2-digit numbers

  • Word Problems

  • Place Value: Numbers to 100

  • Time

  • Money

  • Fractions

  • Geometry

  • Calendar

  • Measurement

  • Beginning Multiplication and Division

  • Numbers patterns to 1000

  • Graphs & Probability

Social Studies:

  • Government Leaders

  • Beginning Economic Topics

  • Comparison of life in America Long Ago vs. the Present

  • Developing Awareness of other Cultures

  • World Map Skills

  • U. S. Map Skills

Specials:

  • Music & Choir

  • Computer

  • Gym

  • Art

  • Library