2nd Grade
2nd Grade Enrichment Updates
READING/WRITING: First Semester we have been focusing on:
Cause and Effect - Writing cause and effect stories based on author Laura Numeroff.
Brainstorming and inventing through divergent inventive thinking using the P.E.T.S. program (Primary Education Thinking Skills or PETS™ is a systematized enrichment and diagnostic thinking skills program. Lessons are presented in convergent analysis, divergent synthesis, visual/spatial thinking, and evaluation, suitable for grades K-3. The program aligns to the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy)
MATH: First Semester we have been focusing on:
Algebraic thinking with symbols and pictures
Level 4 activities based on the 2nd grade standards (applying place value to different real-life scenarios; multi-step problem solving with adding and subtracting; number sense puzzles).