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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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