• Reading texts about history, social studies, and science and identifying the main idea.

• Answering who, what, where, when, why,and how questions about stories and books.

• Describing the reasons that an author gives to support a point.

• Learning and using new words.

• Learning the rules of spoken and written English.

• Participating in class discussions by listening and building on what others are saying.

• Describing in his own words information learned from articles or books read aloud.

• Working together to gather facts and information on a topic.

• Writing about a short series of events and describing actions, thoughts, and feelings.

• Writing about opinions on books using important details and examples to support a position.

• Reading stories, including fables and folktales from different cultures, and identifying the lesson or moral of the story.

• Solve problems with addition and subtraction

• Work with equal groups of objects

• Understand and use place value to add and subtract

• Measure and estimate lengths

• Work with time and money

• Recognize and draw shapes

• Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, and four equal shares

In Second Grade, students will have the opportunity to discover Civics and Economics, Geography and Environmental science, History and Culture!

In Second Grade, students will engage in force and motion, properties of matter, weather patterns and animal life cycles!