Second Grade

CURRICULUM

  Art

• Learn & demonstrate the elements of art (line, shape, color, value, texture, form, space) 
• Develop drawing and observational skills

Drama

• Develop memorization and performance skills at age appropriate levels with plays, poetry, and music

 Language Arts

• Read stories with class discussion & questions to test understanding (Open Court Collections for Young Scholars)
• Read fiction, non-fiction and poetry
• New vocabulary and spelling words
• Important reading strategies
• Grammar and language usage: punctuation, parts of speech identification, capitalization
• Sentence structure & early writing skills
• Handwriting skills
• Alphabetizing and proofreading skills
• Short & long vowel sounds, vowel pairs, phonograms
• Consonant blends, diphthongs, digraphs, syllables
• Suffixes, prefixes, word endings

 Religion

• Our Heavenly Father & His Creations
• Holy Mass & Eucharist
• Holy Spirit
• God's Family - The Church
• Jesus is always present
• Baptism & Penance
• Following God's Laws
• Special Virtue focus each week
• Lives of the Saints

 Spanish

• Exposure to Spanish through songs, activities and written work

 Mathematics

• Identify place value to the hundreds place
• Know & use symbols <, >, =
• Add & subtract up to three digits
• Solve problems using coins & dollars
• Meaure length, weight & capacity of objects
• Solve word problems
• Telling time
• Multiplication & division
• Geometry
• Graphs

 Music

• Fundamentals of Music - Reading, Rhythm & Time
• Voice Control and Choir

 Physical Education

• Jumping, running, skipping skills
• Cooperation & teamwork
• Rhythmic activities

 Science (Scott Foresman 2)

• Taking care of yourself
• The animal world
• Energy and movement
• Air & Weather
• Oceans & Continents

 Social Studies

• Community & Culture
• World History (Ancient Greece, Vikings, Middle Ages & Feudalism)
• 13 Colonies & American Government
• Important historical events & people
• Symbols & monuments