Second Grade at a Glance

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Second Grade at a Glance

• Teachers
• Lynda Dowd, Therese Coon, Michelle Martin, Angie
  Quintana, Paulina Pillow, Danielle Dolick

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Language Arts

• Reads a variety of materials, such as pattern
  books, fantasy, multicultural stories,
  environmental print, poems, fairy tales, folk
  tales, and plays.
• Makes and confirms predictions about what is
  read.
• Connects personal experiences and background
  knowledge to what is read.

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Reading

• Makes and confirms predictions about what is
  read.
• Retells a story including characters, setting,
  beginning, middle, and end, problem and solution.
• Identifies main idea in nonfiction reading.
• Correctly answers questions about what they have
  read and what has been read to them.

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Reading Strategies

• Uses a variety of ways to figure out unknown
  words
• Using beginning and ending letter sounds.
• Context (deciding if the word makes sense in the
  story)
• Rereads if necessary
• Stops when reading doesnt make sense and
  attempts to self-correct

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Writing

• Chooses a topic and brainstorms ideas before
  writing,
• Can write about one main idea using beginning,
  middle, and ending.
• Uses criteria to help evaluate own writing.

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Writing Products

• Writes three personal narratives.
• Writes a friendly letter with correct format.
• Writes three reports.

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Writing Skills

• Revises writing by adding and/or deleting
  information so that the meaning is clear.
• Proofreads and corrects for basic capitalization,
  punctuation, subject-verb agreement,
  contractions, plurals.
• Spells most Grade 2 words correctly.
• Writes legibly.

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Mathematics

• Number sense
• Algebraic methods
• Statistics and Probability
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Computation

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Number SenseStandard I

• Students develop number sense and use numbers and
  number relationships in problem-solving
  situations and communicate the reasoning used in
  solving these problems.

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AlgebraStandard II

• Students use algebraic methods to explore, model
  and describe patterns and functions involving
  numbers, shapes, data, and graphs in
  problem-solving situations and communicate the
  reasoning used in solving these problems.

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Statistics and ProbabilityStandard III

• Students use data collection and analysis,
  statistics, and probability in problem-solving
  situations and communicate the reasoning and
  processes used in solving these problems.

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GeometryStandard IV

• Students use geometric concepts, properties, and
  relationships in problem-solving situations and
  communicate the reasoning used in solving real
  world problems.

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MeasurementStandard V

• Students use a variety of tools and techniques to
  measure, apply the results in problem-solving
  situations, and communicate the reasoning used in
  solving these problems.

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ComputationStandard VI

• Students link concepts and procedures as they
  develop and use computational techniques,
  including estimation, mental arithmetic, paper
  and pencils, calculators and computers, in
  problem-solving situations and communicate the
  reasoning used in solving these problems.

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Science

• The students will
• Conduct experiments
• Observe and describe the life cycle of insects.
• Explore the properties of magnets
• Separate, sort, and identify soil mixtures.

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Social StudiesGeography/Civics/Economics

• Uses a map key and symbols.
• Draws a map of a neighborhood
• Uses a map of a neighborhood to give directions
• Compares the characteristics of rural, urban, and
  suburban areas.
• List the features of a neighborhood.

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History/Civics/Economics

• Studies the neighborhood.
• Measures a calendar time by days, weeks and
  months.
• Creates a time line.
• Explores historical evidence field trips, books,
  movies and interviews.
• Recognizes goods and services.
• Identifies elements of culture in school,

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This slide show is a list of key skills and
information your child will be learning
throughout the year. You should see evidence of
this work in the papers brought home and topics
your child talks about. If you have any questions
about the curriculum please feel free to stop by
any classroom. Thank you for your support.