Second Grade Curriculum
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Review of vowels, consonants, blends, one- and two- vowel words,consonant blends
- Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
- Spelling rules: doubling consonants, dropping silent e, changing y to i
- Oral reading
- Capitalization of first word in a sentence, proper names, days of the week, and months of the year, special holidays, people, and places
- Correct punctuation at the ends of sentences
- Complete sentences, questions, and exclamations
- Words using suffixes, prefixes, abbreviations, compound words, rhyming words, opposite words, same-meaning words, singular and plural words, singular and possessive words, and contractions
- Alphabetizing of words and other dictionary skills
- Word usage rules
- Writing of complete sentences, questions, exclamations, and short stories
- Writing letters and thank-you notes
- Creative writing
- History & Geography:
- America, Our Home
- Our Flag
- Our Patriotic Holidays
- Our Songs
- The People Who Built America The Separatists, America’s Indians, The Colonists, America’s Pioneers, America’s Cowboys, The New Americans
- Tomorrow’s America
- Enjoying The Plant World
- Enjoying The Animal World
- Enjoying The Stars and Planets
- Enjoying Planet Earth
- Enjoying The Air Around Us
- Enjoying Things That Move
- Enjoying Things That Work Together
- Enjoying Myself and Others
- Health, Safety, and Manners
- Review and master all skills introduced in K5 and 1st grade
- Count by 3’s and 4’s
- Count by 10’s from any number
- Compare and order numbers to 1,000
- Use comparison symbols
- Write numbers using expanded form
- Round to the nearest 10
- Identify ordinal position to the twelfth
- Locate rational numbers on a number line
- Add multiples of 10 and 100
- Add multi-digit numbers using mental computation
- Identify and write addition and subtraction fact families
- Subtract multi-digit numbers with and without renaming
- Master basic multiplication facts through 5
- Double a number
- Write number sentences for arrays
- Divide by 2
- Identify equivalent fractions
- Identify numerator and denominator
- Represent and write mixed numbers
- Construct and name lines
- Construct and name angles
- Identify horizontal, vertical, and oblique line segments
- Identify and draw parallel and perpendicular lines
- Identify and draw lines of symmetry
- Identify right angles
- Graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane
- Measure and draw line segments to the nearest ½ inch
- Measure using feet and inches
- Estimate linear measures
- Weigh objects using pounds
- Measure temperature using Fahrenheit
- Measure perimeter using inches and centimeters
- Measure area using non-standard units and square inches
- Read and represent time to five-minute intervals
- Find elapsed time
- Identify noon and midnight
- Use a.m. and p.m.
- Write the date using digits
- Identify relationships between and among minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years
- Create and read a Venn diagram and line graph
- Conduct an experiment and record the results
- Conduct a survey
- Explore concepts of chance and probability
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