Here's What is Happening in Second Grade

Your child will be learning:

Reading:

• Self-Selecting books on own level

• Strategies for decoding unknown words

• Reading is Thinking strategies (Predicting, Visualizing, Connecting, Clarifying, Summarizing, Author's Message)

• Story Elements (Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution)

• Personal and critical response to literature through discussion and writing

• Genre Studies (Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction)

Writing

• Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Sentence Structure

• Steps in the Writing Process

• Domains of Writing: Focus, Content, Organization, Style, and Conventions

• Opinion, Informative and Narrative Writing Genres

• Parts of Speech

Math

• Addition and Subtraction Strategies

• Number Patterns

• Place Value

• Two & Three-Digit Addition and Subtraction 

• Money

• Time

• Fractions and Geometry Concepts

• Measurement

Social Studies

• We Belong to Many Groups 

• Where We Live

• We All Work Together

• People Make History

• Being a Good Citizen

• People in Time and Place

• Map Skills

• Holidays

Science

• How the Earth Changes

• Structures and Properties of Matter

• How Do Plants and Animals Depend on Each Other

• Electricity

• Care of the Body (Susan Byrnes Health Center Trips)

Field Trips

• Second Grade Annual Field Trip - Lancaster Science Factory