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Language Arts

  • Through the literary elements of fiction, traditional literature, poetry, biography and non-fiction children will experience a wide range of instructional activities in listening, reading, writing, discussing and/or speaking.
Reading
  • Construct meaning from print and pictures
  • Make connections between themselves, their experiences and books
  • Predict, recall and summarize stories, information and experiences
  • Identify character, setting, problem/solution, and story sense
  • Acquire vocabulary and multiple word meanings
  • Sequence the events of a story
  • Identify and use traditional and electronic sources of information
  • Reread a paragraph or sentence to establish meaning
  • Understand that reading is a way of gaining information about the world
  • Respond in oral and written form to material read
  • Expand and apply a repertoire of reading strategies (concepts of print, graphophonic analysis, print structures, and structural analysis)
Listening and Speaking
  • Retell and react to stories
  • Follow simple directions
  • Ask questions to improve comprehension
  • Listen for specific purposes
  • Develop and expand vocabulary by speaking and listening
  • Retell story with details
  • Express feelings
  • Participate in classroom discussions
Writing
  • Use cursive handwriting skills
  • Use standard spelling
  • Revise to improve content, grammar, and sentence structure
  • Use pictures or words to develop topic
  • Use basic sentence structure and expand with descriptive words
  • Demonstrate logical flow
  • Begin to use time/order transitions and paragraphing (first, the next day, in summer)
  • Use capitalization and punctuation
  • Begin to write independently
Mathematics
  • Compare, read, order, and write numbers to 1,000
  • Use comparison symbols (<, >, =) correctly
  • Regroup and rename quantities of objects into hundreds, tens, and ones and record with placevalue notation
  • Construct fact families for addition/subtraction
  • Count by 2's, 5's, and 10's to 100, starting at various points
  • Explore and later investigate problem-solving situations involving joining and separating models  of addition and subtraction using manipulatives, language, symbols, and number sentences
  • Use measuring tools for centimeters and inches
  • Tell time to five minute intervals
  • Investigate values, quantities, equivalence, and number patterns with pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, and dollars
  • Order, count, and tally various types of information.
  • Explore counting a collection objects by arranging them into groups of equal size and connecting  them to number sense and patterns
Science
  • Identify components of a habitat and tell how they work together as a system
  • Predict how changes will impact a habitat
  • Build simple food chains
  • Identify the characteristics of liquids and gases
  • Predict how solids, liquids, or gases will change the input or or output of heat energy
  • Identify sound as a vibration
  • Identity factors that cause seasonal change.
  • Measure and record weather data and predict patterns of change
  • Ask questions, make observations, and describe patterns using scientific method
  • Name tools and explain how tools help us do work
Social Studies
  • Comprehend how people learn and work together
  • Understand different types of communities
  • Learn about farms, factories and trading
  • Gain knowledge about our country, its capital and government
  • Develop basic understanding of world citizenship and respecting others
  • Learn about celebrations of American history and around the world
  •  Use maps, atlases and globes
World Languages
By the end of second grade, students will:
  • Recognize basic language patterns (e.g., forms of address, questions, case)
  • Respond appropriately to simple commands and ask simple questions with prompts
  • Imitate pronunciation, intonation and inflection including sounds unique to the target language
  • Recognize the written form of familiar spoken language
  • Infer meaning of cognates from context
  • Copy/write words, phrases and simple sentences
  • Describe people, activities and objects from school and home
  • Use common forms of courtesy, greetings and leave-takings
  • Identify and demonstrate one or more art forms (e.g., Japanese origami, Spanish flamenco) representative of areas where the target language is spoken
Physical Education/Wellness
By the end of second grade, students should be able to:
  • Execute a variety of motor and social skills for individual and team sports and conditioning activities and know the effects of regular exercise and leisure activity
  • Recognize the importance of maintaining body control while participating in a variety of activities requiring starting, stopping, changing directions and levels, and know the positive effects of these activities
  • Demonstrate a variety of fitness and exercise components
  • Recognize the optimal amount of exercise needed per week
  • Recognize the affective benefits derived from regular participation in physical activity
Health
By the end of second grade, students will:
  • Know that major body parts work together
  • Understand the importance of exercise
  • Identify the components of wellness
  • Recognize the importance of safety
  • Learn appropriate steps to ensure their safety and health
General Music
Students will have instructional and experiential activities in:
  • Interactive listening process involving music perception, cognition, analysis, and evaluation resulting in aesthetic awareness
  • Personal experiential interaction with music through singing, playing, performing, and moving
  • Creative composition/arranging for organized sound designed to express feelings
  • Spontaneous creation of original music
  • Formal/constructive elements of music theory, vocabulary, syntax, and symbolic representations of music
  • Historical, social and cultural context for musical insight
Fine Arts
  • Recognize, identify, and demonstrate an understanding of the sensory elements and organizational principles of design as well as the expressive qualities of the visual arts
  • Recognize, identify, and demonstrate the basic use of materials and tools in order to understand  how works of art are produced
  • Create individual works of visual art
  • Understand that works of art shape, reflect and play a role in societies, cultures, and civilizations, past and present