2nd Grade Curriculum

Religion

Second Grade Religion focuses on the preparation of our students to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.

• The Profession of Faith – understanding of the Trinity, that Jesus is both human and divine, and that Jesus teaches us about God in many ways.

• The Celebration of the Christian Mystery – developing and understanding that Jesus’ presence is in the Sacraments through the Sacrament of First Holy Communion

• Life in Christ – Understanding that sin is turning away from God and that God is a forgiving God through the Sacrament of Reconciliation

• Christian Prayer – Using prayer in Sacramental and everyday life.
  

• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction

• Add and subtract within 20

• Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication

• Understand place value and use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract

• Measure and estimate lengths in standard units and relate addition and subtraction to length

• Work with time and money

• Reason with shapes and their attributes

Language Arts Common Core

Reading

• Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

• Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and the overall structure of a story.

• Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the textDetermine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade level topic or subject area.

• Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently and identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author want to answer, explain, or describe.

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

• Understand the use of grade level irregular plural nouns, irregular verbs reflexive pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs.

Writing

• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

• Introduction to writing opinion pieces, narratives, and informative texts.

• Understand the process of revising and editing.

• Introduction of technology to produce and publish writing.

• Physical Sciences – Understand that the motion of objects can be observed and measured.

• Life Sciences – Understand that plants and animals have predictable life cycles.

• Earth Sciences – Understand that Earth is made of materials that have distinct properties and provide resources for human activities.

• Investigation and Experimentation – Introduction to that scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

Social Studies

• Differentiate between things that happened long ago and things that happened yesterday

• Demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environment

• Understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills

• Understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in our lives

• Introduction to the use of maps, graphs, charts, and tables to convey geographic meaning

• Perceive and respond to works of art, objects in nature, events, and the environment

• Apply artistic processes and skills, using a variety of media to communicate meaning and intent in original works of art

• Mastering skills in the use of tools and processes, such as the use of scissors, glue, and paper in a safe and responsible manner

• Understand the use of primary colors to create secondary colors

• Computer class 30 minutes once a week

• Music class 30 minutes twice a week

• PE class 30 minutes twice a week

• Spanish 30 minutes twice a week

• Library 30 minutes once a week