Classroom Routines
Math Workshop
In Dublin City Schools, we believe that all students deserve a mathematical learning experience centered around communication, collaboration, thinking, and problem solving.
Reading Workshop
To build a foundation for success, students must read widely and deeply from increasingly challenging literary and informational texts, such as but not limited to stories, dramas, poems, and myths. Students must acquire the habits of reading independently and closely which are also essential for their future success.
Writing Workshop
To build a foundation for success, students must learn to use writing as a way of offering and supporting opinions, demonstrating understanding of the subjects they are studying, and conveying real and imagined experiences and events. Students will learn to appreciate the key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly. Students will devote consistent time and effort to writing throughout the year.
Word Study
Word Study (spelling and vocabulary) is an integral part of the Dublin Literacy Workshop Model, and implied across the Language Arts Standards. Students will learn to spell with the context of meaningful reading and writing experiences.
Science Inquiry
Students in second grade will focus on developing the skills for systematic discovery to understand the science of the physical world around them in greater depth by using scientific inquiry. Students in second grade will learn that living and nonliving things may move and that the atmosphere is made of air and water that move. They begin to understand that a moving object has energy and that changes in energy and movement can cause change to organisms and the environments in which they live.
Social Studies
Work serves as an organizing theme for the second grade. Students learn about jobs today and long ago. They use biographies, primary sources and artifacts as clues to the past. They deepen their knowledge of diverse cultures and their roles as citizens.