Classroom Routines
Reading Workshop
Readers Use Strategies
Readers Analyze Stories
Readers Dig Deeper
Readers Read to Learn
Components of a daily workshop include:
-Focused Mini Lesson
-Guided/Shared/Independent Practice
-Share and Reflection
Writing Workshop
Writers Tell Stories
Writers Expand Stories
Writers Share Opinions
Writers Research and Report
Components of a daily workshop include:
-Focused Mini Lesson
-Guided/Shared/Independent Practice
-Share and Reflection
Math Workshop
Second graders think deeply about making benchmark numbers familiar, so they can use them as tools to compose, decompose, and compare numbers. Thinking with pieces, like ones, tens, and hundreds, and negotiating how to use them as groups and as positions on the number line to solve problems is central to this grade. Students need to continually anchor their thinking about numbers to all the real-world places where numbers are used to describe and wonder, including estimating lengths and quantities and thinking with data.Components of a daily workshop include:
-Opening
-Focused Mini Lesson
-Collaborative/Independent Practice
-Share and Reflection
Science
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.
Word Study
Second grade word study learning focuses on the mastery of the list of high frequency words, beginning phonics and shifting from inventive spelling to correct spelling through the study of visual strategies and word patterns.
