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Reading
Your child will:
- understand and select different reading skills and strategies by:
- setting a purpose for reading
- using contextual clues and phonics for unfamiliar words
- applying background information
- retelling a story to show understanding
- read to acquire, remember and apply information by:
- extend understanding by making inferences from printed materials by:
- drawing conclusions and understanding explicitly stated ideas
- identifying the author’s purpose
- relating content to experience
- read and discuss a variety of materials to understand himself/herself and the people and world around him/her
- read materials of personal interest as well as materials which extend what is read in school
Writing
Your child will work toward the following writing goals:
- generate ideas through teacher led pre-writing activities
- based on pre-writing activity, choose and focus on a topic
- consider purpose and audience
- add details and descriptive words
- experiment with leads and include an ending
- begin to apply revision and editing strategies
- begin to consider voice
- use grade appropriate capitalization and punctuation
- use standard spelling for most words
- use resources to research and answer questions
Speaking and Listening
Your child will:
- contribute to group discussions
- ask questions when help is needed
- retell spoken information
- listen attentively without interrupting
Mathematics
Your child will:
- display effort
- demonstrate and apply unit(s) concepts(s)
- demonstrate the use of addition strategies to 100
- demonstrate the use of subtraction strategies to 100
- mentally add numbers up to 20
- mentally subtract numbers up to 20
- understand place value of 3-digit numbers
- demonstrate problem solving strategies
- explain mathematical reasoning
Science
Your child will learn about science by asking questions about the world, designing and conducting experiments and recording and reflecting on findings. Your second grader will:
- investigate motion, force and how friction and gravity affect motion
- identify the properties in rocks
- understand that rocks contain evidence of ancient life
- identify mixtures as a combination of more than one material or substance
- create mixtures using their knowledge of the properties of substances to design mixtures
Social Studies
Focus: Culture and communities of the world
Your child will:
- understand the diversity of communities and cultures
- describe problems faced by various communities and cultures
- identify potential sources of conflict between cultures and possible solutions to these problems
- explain how land formation, climate and natural resources influence the location of communities
- develop a strong sense of pride in their local communities and an appreciation for communities unlike their own
- identify reasons that communities and cultures are diverse
- use reference tools
- apply map and globe skills
Music
Your child will:
- sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- play, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- read and notate music
- listen, analyze, describe and evaluate music
Art
Your child will:
- identify and begin using the Art Elements in their projects
- be introduced to a variety of artists, art styles, and art movements throughout history
- begin to understand that art is created by all cultures
- create art that expresses their feelings and communicates their personal ideas
- develop basic skills and techniques necessary to produce projects
- explore a variety of media
- be introduced to art vocabulary and demonstrate their understanding of it
Fitness Education
Your child will:
- understand and apply the components of health related fitness to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle
- develop and maintain appropriate levels of skill related fitness
- develop understandings so that they can adopt healthy and physically active lifestyles
- develop positive attitudes about physical activity so that they engage in healthy and physically active lifestyles
Classroom Guidance
Students participate in classroom guidance activities facilitated by a school counselor. Each school provides a developmental guidance curriculum that encompasses dealing with feelings, peer relationships, decision making, protective behaviors and careers. Skills taught will assist each child in his/her academic, emotional and social development. This, in turn, will help ensure success in school, at home and in the community. |
