SECOND GRADE CURRICULUM
Math
- Addition facts and strategies to 20
- Subtraction facts and strategies to 20
- Place value to 1000
- Numbers and patterns
- Money
- Calendar
- Data/Graphs
- Two digit addition with and without regrouping
- Two digit subtraction with and without regrouping
- Estimation and measurement
- Two and three dimensional shapes
- Three digit subtraction
- Three digit addition
- Fractions
- Multiplication and Division
- Problem Solving
Religion
- Emphasis on First Reconciliation and First Eucharist
- We belong to the church
- Seven sacraments
- prayer
- Ten commandments
- Parts of the mass
- Visits to the Christian Community Home
- Church Tour
- Special Feasts/ Seasons
- Advent
- Christmas
- Lent
- Holy Week
- Easter
- Holy Days, Mary, Saints
Science- Foss Kits
- Balance and Motion
- Insects
- Animals and habitats
- Tour of Crystal Cave (bats)
- Possible Farm Tour
Social Studies- People and communities ( city, suburb, rural communities)
- Our place on Earth ( land, water, regions of the USA)
- People at work (needs, jobs in the community)
- Our Government (rules, laws, symbols)
- Christmas traditions around the world
- Junior Achievement program
- Field Trip to the post office
Language Arts - Guided Reading
- Shared Reading
- Book bag reading
- Vocabulary skills (sight words, phonetic words)
- Dictionary and Glossary skills
- Decoding skills
- Comprehension Skills (main idea, details, summarizing , predictions)
- Phonics ( consonants, vowels, etc...)
- Literary Forms (genre)
- Spelling Patterns
- Writing (journal, stories, poems)
- Handwriting (Zaner Bloser manuscript and cursive)
