CURRICULUM - 2nd GRADE

LANGUAGE ARTS

Phonics and Reading

  • Review of vowels, consonant, blends, one and two-vowel words, consonant blends
  • Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
  • Special rules: doubling consonants, dropping silent ‘e’, changing ‘y’ to ‘i’
  • Oral reading

Cursive Writing

  • Review of letter formation
  • Guided creative writing
  • Daily seatwork practice in all academic areas
  • Creative writing journal

Spelling and Poetry

  • Weekly phonics-based word list
  • Reinforcement activities
  • Spelling glossary
  • Weekly test
  • Vocabulary words and definitions second semester
  • Seven poems committed to memory

Language

  • Word usage rules
  • Writing letters and thank-you notes
  • Creative writing
  • Capitalization of first word in a sentence, days of the week, months of the year, special holidays, people and places
  • Correct punctuation at the ends of sentences
  • Complete sentences, questions and exclamations
  • Alphabetizing words and other dictionary skills
  • Writing of complete sentences, questions, exclamations and short stories
  • Words using suffixes, prefixes, abbreviations, compound words, rhyming words, opposite words, singular and plural words, singular possessive words, and contractions


HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

  • America, Our Home:
    • Our Flag – Our Patriotic Holidays – Our Songs
    • The People Who Built America – The Separatists – American Indians – The Colonists – America’s Pioneers – America’s Cowboys – The New Americans

SCIENCE

Plants

  • Enjoying the plant world

Earth And Space

  • Enjoying the Stars and Planets
  • Enjoying Planet Earth

Energy

  • Enjoying the Air Around Us
  • Enjoying Things That Move

Animals

  • Enjoying the Animal World
  • Discovering insects

Health and Human Biology

  • Enjoying Myself and Others

Matter

  • Enjoying the Air Around Us

Conservation

  • Enjoying Things That Work Together

HEALTH, SAFETY, MANNERS

Health

  • Posture – Nutrition – Exercise – Rest – Cleanliness - Diseases Safety
  • At home and away from home – On streets – Around water – During bad weather
    Manners
  • Politeness – Kindness – Cheerfulness – Respect – Thoughtfulness – Thankfulness – Patience – Table and telephone manners

ARITHMETIC

  • Counting and combining coins and bills
  • Numbers greatest and least 1-1,000
  • English and some metric measures
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Multiplication facts 0-5
  • Division facts 1-5
  • Story problems
  • Multiple combinations
  • Estimation
  • Rounding
  • Reading pictographs, bar graphs and line graphs
  • Number recognition, writing and counting 1- 10,000 and beyond
  • Counting and writing to hundred thousands, threes to 36, fours to 48
  • Subtraction facts through 18 and four-digit subtraction with borrowing
  • Numbers before and after by ones, twos, threes, fours, fives, and tens
  • Addition facts through 18, column addition, four-digit addition, four-digit addition with carrying
  • Roman numerals
  • Telling time to the nearest minute
  • Reading a thermometer
  • Drawing and measuring lines to one-half inch
  • Developing listening skills
  • Calendars
  • Place value to thousands
  • Unit fractions
  • Making change


BIBLE

  • Lessons such as Salvation Series, Life of Moses, Tabernacle, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,
    Jonah
  • Memory verses
  • Hymns/choruses
  • Bible Doctrine

ACTIVITIES

  • Chapel
  • Spanish
  • Art
  • Music
  • Gymnastics
  • Field Trips