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Second Grade Scope & Sequence
Second Grade Scope & Sequence
The Second Grade Scope & Sequence shows what teachers plan to teach each quarter of the school year. The scope and sequence lists the academic expectations for each academic subject. Click on the document to expand and see all of the subjects. More information can be accesssed below to learn about specific skills second graders will be learning during the school year.
S&S Second Grade.pdfEnglish Language Arts
In grade two, students will continue to build important reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Reading Foundations and differentiation will continue to be a priority. Stregthening phonics skills and reading fluency are priorities. Students will continue with shared reading and whole group reading, to improve their reading skills.
A stronger emphasis on writing units, grammar, sentence structure, and spelling will be present in the second grade.
Activities in Second Grade ELA
Activities in Second Grade ELA
Teachers read with the students and then the students reread in partners and identify story elements. After answering questions, they will do a written response.
2. After a teacher reads a story, the class talks about vocabulary. To strengthen their writing skills, the class will take a sentence from the story and break it apart or combine it with another sentence. Adjectives and adverbs are added to make the sentences more descriptive.
3. Students will learn to write narrative, descriptive, and opinion pieces.
Mathematics
In grade two, students will extend their understanding of place value to the thousandths place. They will use this place value understanding to solve word problems, including those involving length and other units of measure. Students will continue to work on their addition and subtraction skills, quickly and accurately adding and subtracting numbers up through 20 and also working with numbers up through 1000. They will also build a foundation for understanding fractions by working with shapes and geometry. Students will continue learning how to tell time and how to count money.
Activities in Second Grade Mathematics
Activities in Second Grade Mathematics
Identifying hundreds, tens, & ones using a place value chart.
Working towards completing addition and subtraction without using a chart and showing regrouping
Identifying key words in a word problems, drawing tape diagrams and writing a sentence to answer the question.
Using repeated addition to create an array and relating it to multiplication and division.
Using rulers to measure various items in inches, yards, centimeters, and meters.
Identifying coins and their value. Answer word problems involving money. Identifying time to the nearest 5 minutes. Using bar graphs to graph information.
Monthly fact memorization checks for addition and subtraction facts up to 20.
Science
Ms. Bennett's students doing a STEM activity
Science topics at the second grade level are embedded in their reading program. Below are many of the topics which students will read about and discuss.
Magnets
Cracking up: The Story of Erosion
Where in the Wild?
Camouflage
What is it made of?
Tale of a Tadpole/From Tadpole to Frogs
From Caterpillar to Butterfly/The Journey of the Butterfly
How a Plant Grows/How to Raise a Raisin
Activities in Second Grade in Science
Activities in Second Grade in Science
Our activities are seasonal/theme based around books we are reading and include some hands-on things.
Occasional STEM activities
Mystery Science
Social Science
In second grade, students will continue developing social skills and knowledge about how society works for different people. Topics include:
Goods and Services, voting, careers and jobs
Discussing our community and the jobs and individuals inside our community and the role that they play.
Discuss places around the world on maps and pictures.
Role of money in our world (saving and spending)
Individuals who made a significant historical change
Evaluating fact and opinion
Activities in Second Grade in Social Science
Activities in Second Grade in Social Science
Junior Achievement
Ex. Egypt in one of our Bookworms books
Ex. money in JA and in our math curriculum
Ex. Bookworms books- Abe Lincoln, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Rosevelt, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Jr., The Very First Americans (Native American Tribes), economics books in ELA curriculum (“Who’s Buying, Who’s Selling” and “My Rows and Piles of Coins”), a book on the American Flag (“The Flag We Love”), a book about the Vietnam Wall (“The Wall”), different types of Cinderella stories coming from different cultures, a Chinese alphabet book (“D is for Dragon: A Chinese Alphabet”)
Physical Education, Music, and Art
Spiders made from foil - look closely at the detail!
Physical education, music, and art is provided to the students several times a week. Students are exposed to a variety of exercises, musical, and artistic experiences.
Activities in Second Grade in Physical Education, Music and Art
Activities in Second Grade in Physical Education, Music and Art
The standards for Grade Two Visual Arts focuses on the acquisition of a reservoir of ideas for art making. Students acquire ideas from their own experiences, their schools, their communities, the environment and the art of other cultures. Students express these ideas using increased variety of art materials, skills, techniques and processes.
The focus in PE will be on skills such as running, throwing and catching. Midway through the year, the focus will shift to cooperation games and game play.
In second grade music, students will learn new notes and rests. They also strengthen their melody skills, and learn how to compose. They will also study Mozart, the string family, and world music.
2nd Grade World Music Wax Museum
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