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School Life | K-6 Elementary
Second Grade
Welcome to 2nd Grade
Goals• Instill the thirst of learning. • Teach the children to acquire the skills necessary to enhance their pursuit of knowledge. • Instruct at individual level and learning style. • Encourage each child to take responsibility for his/her own thoughts, feelings, and learning. • Demonstrate that learning is an adventure that will be enjoyed for a lifetime
Language Arts Second Graders will learn to • Decode using various strategies • Use word attack skills • Read a variety of literature based on fiction and nonfiction • Use different strategies for decoding • Increase reading fluency and comprehension • Recognize cause and effect • Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs • Follow written instruction • Compare contrasting plots, settings and characters • Write clear and coherent sentences • Introduce writing traits
Math Second grade math is designed to bring the child from a concrete/conceptual to the symbolic level. Second Graders will learn • Place Value • Number relationships and fact families • Math facts by rote • Measurement in appropriate units • Appropriate math vocabulary • Classifying and relationships among shapes • Analyzing data and verifying answers • Graphing techniques • Learning multiplication facts 0,1,2,3,4,5,10,11
Social Studies Social Studies is integrated with Language Arts. Second Graders will • Explore maps and learn to locate landmarks • Learn the continents and oceans • Study about major rivers and mountain ranges in our state • Compare and investigate our ancestors and other influential people • Discuss current issues • Learn to make time lines • Compare today to long age
Science/Health Second Graders will learn • Physical Science: Study motion, force, magnets, sound and vibrations • Life Science: Examine lifecycles of plants and animals • Earth Science: Compare physical properties of rocks and minerals with further investigation into rocks, soils and fossils • Health Science: Learn basic care of personal hygiene, nutrition, and drug awareness
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