Second Grade Curriculum
RELIGION
- Cherish life as a gift from God
- Learn that all people and creation deserve respect
- Learn that God gives us the freedom to choose
- Learn that we are responsible for our choices and their consequences
- Define “virtue” as “a good habit” and know that we are called to live virtuous lives
- Define sin as a selfish or unloving choice
- Understand that our conscience helps us know what is right or wrong
- Learn the word “Sacrament” and name the seven Sacraments
- Understand the essentials of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
- Recite an Act of Contrition
- Learn more about the meaning of, and how to participate at, Mass
- Learn that the bread and wine at Mass become the body and blood of Jesus
- Understand the gift of the Eucharist
- Learn that the Bible is the word of God speaking to us today
- Name the four Gospels
- Recite the Nicene Creed
READING
- Develop oral reading skills
- Read independently, chapter books, stories
- Reading strategies – retelling, predicting, inferring, summarizing
- Increase sight word vocabulary
- Use of graphic organizers for character study
- Compare and contrast characters
- Recognize basic elements of a story (setting, plot, characters)
- Read charts and diagrams
- Phonics awareness for decoding unfamiliar words
- Phonics awareness for spelling
- Follow multiple step directions
- Story maps
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Learn about the continents and oceans of the world
- Continue to use maps
- Learn about the similarities and differences of people and places
- Learn about geography – landforms and bodies of water
- Learn about goods and services
ENGLISH
- Continue to learn simple parts of speech – nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Learn proper use of apostrophes
- Learn proper use of capitalization and punctuation
- Write opinion essays and personal narratives
- Compare and contrast characters
- Read charts and diagrams
- Spelling of “red” words (words that cannot be spelled phonically)
- Follow multiple step directions
- Introduce the writing process
- Story maps
- Write 3-4 sentence stories
- Begin transition to cursive - 2nd semester
MATHEMATICS
- Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems
- Apply math to calendars, money, measurement and time
- Understand place value and numbers to the 1000’s
- Solve problems using two-digit and three-digit addition and subtraction
- Explain fractions using words and models
- Recognize, name and draw geometric shapes
- Use money and make change
- Use non-standard and metric units of measure
- Tell time to 5 minutes
- Understand and use different kinds of graphs (bar, picto, grids)
SCIENCE
- Use the scientific method by observing, predicting, and experimenting
- Compare solids, liquids, gas
- Investigate weather patterns
- Recognize changes in seasons
- Learn that some kinds of plants and animals are extinct
- Learn about land biomes and the plants and animals that live together
- Learn about germs and about things that make people ill
- Learn about motion and energy
