Second Grade Content Expectations
Reading
What your child needs to know by the end of second grade.
Skills
The children learn how to figure out new words using phonics clues from the pictures and the story itself, and other language clues such as syllables and endings. New vocabulary is taught with each story or article.
Comprehension
The children learn ways to comprehend what they read such as retelling the story, drawing conclusions, predicting what will happen, finding the main idea and details, and learning to tell things in order.
Practice
For about 20-25 minutes a day the whole class reads silently in library books of each child's choice. I try to encourage the children to choose some books that they can test on for our Accelerated Reading program, but I also like them to read other books of their interest. The P.T.O. has a point shop three times a year that the students redeem prizes with their AR points
Literature
To increase the children's enjoyment of literature I expose them to many stories from high quality children's books. Once a teacher has read a book to the class you would be amazed at how many youngsters pick that same book to read themselves.
Houghton Mifflin Website
Students can go to the following website for games about our weekly stories. http://www.eduplace.com
Math
Over the school year, your second-grader will practice adding and subtracting, manipulating with time and money, and place value with increasingly larger numbers. Your child will also become familiar with measurement, as well as simple geometry and fraction concepts. We will also be gearing up for the more complicated functions of multiplication and division.
Learn addition facts 0-18
Learn subtraction facts 0-18
Count by 2's, 5's, and 10's
Recognize number words to twenty
Place value ones, tens, and hundreds
Addition and subtraction two and three digits numbers with no regrouping
Time, to the hour, half hour and five minute intervals
Calendar- recognize month names and know them in the correct sequence
Addition of 3 addends- 1 and 2 digits
Money- recognize penny, nickel, dime quarter and half dollar and their value. Count them using different combinations to one dollar.
Story problems addition and subtraction
Addition and subtraction with regrouping of 2 digits
Basic geometry and measurement
Estimation fractions - halves thirds, and fourths
Greater than and less than
Some multiplication and division
Science Units
Fossils- Explain how fossils provide evidence of the history of the Earth. Compare and contrast life forms found in fossils and organisms that exist today.
Animals and Plants- Protection from danger and weather, what they eat and where they live, and making food, dispersing seeds, life cycles
Earth and Water- Bodies of water (fresh and salt), the water cycle, major landforms, surface changes, water sources, water movement, and the three states of water.(solid, liquid and gas)
Properties of Matter- All objects and substances have physical properties that can be measured. Material Compostion-Some objects are composed of a single substance, while other object are composed of more than one substance.
Social Studies Units
People form many types of groups such as family, school and community. They have customs and interests.
People live in neighborhoods in rural suburban or urban areas. America is a country on the continent of North America. It has fifty states. The map of the United States shows, states, oceans, rivers and lakes.
The history of America is introduced by learning about these people places and events: Native Americans, pilgrims, settlers, and people coming to America from different countries.
People need to have rules to help them get along. There are home, school and community rules called laws. We also study government and our capital Washington D.C.
Our neighbors near and far teaches the children about different cultures.