Second Grade
National PTA: Second Grade Parents' Guide to Student Success
Language Arts
- Reading: demonstrate fluency, comprehension and appreciation of written material
- Writing: write complete sentences which form a story
- Listening: attend and comprehend oral instruction
- Speaking: communicate idea clearly and distinctly
- Convention/Structure: demonstrate use of basic punctuation and capitalization
- Spelling: learn spelling techniques to apply to written language
Mathematics
- Number sense: Develop an ability to compare, identify, and measure numbers; develop a sense of place value
- Geometry: Recognize features of two and three dimensional shapes
- Measurement: Demonstrate ability to measure length, weight , and volume of real materials
- Operations and computation: Choose the correct mathematical approach to solve problems; add or subtract numbers requiring regrouping; immediate recall of addition/subtraction facts to 20
- Patterns and relationships: Recognize and create patterns with materials and numbers
- Probability and statistics: Communicate when events are more, less, or equally likely to occur; collect , organize and analyze data about the physical world
Science
- Content: participate in hands-on activities in the following areas:
- Astronomy: planetarium
- Earth Science: water cycle
- Health: nutrition
- Life Science: life cycles
- Physical Science: sink or float
- Skills: predict
- observe
- collect and record data
- interpret
- classify
- draw conclusions
Social Studies
- Content: explore the many facets of neighborhoods and communities
- Skills: develop citizenship, conduct research, and use maps and graphs