SECOND GRADE

​Language Arts

Phonics and Reading

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

Language

• 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
• Words using suffixes, prefixes, abbreviations, compound words, rhyming words, opposite words, same-meaning words, singular and plural words, singular possessive words, and contractions
• Alphabetizing words and other dictionary skills
• Word usage rules
• Writing of complete sentences, questions, exclamations, and short stories
• Creative writing
• Writing letters and thank-you notes

Spelling

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

Cursive Writing

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

​History and Geography

America, Our Home

• Our Flag
• Our Patriotic Holidays
• Our Songs

Tomorrow’s America
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The People Who Built America

• The Separatists
• America’s Indians
• The Colonists
• America’s Pioneers
• America’s Cowboys
• The New Americans

​SCIENCE

Plants

• Enjoying the Plant World

Animals

• Enjoying the Animal World

Health and Human Biology

• Enjoying Myself and Others 

Earth and Space

• Enjoying our Earth and Sky

Matter

• Enjoying the Air Around Us

Energy

• Enjoying the Air Around Us
• Enjoying Things That Move

Conservation

• Enjoying Things that Work Together

​Arithmetic

• Number recognition, counting, writing 1-10,000 and beyond
• Numbers greatest and least 1-1,000
• Counting and writing to hundred thousands, threes to 36, fours to 48
• Ordinal numbers
• Addition facts through 18, column addition, four-digit addition with carrying
• Subtraction facts through 18, four-digit subtraction with borrowing
• Multiplication facts 0-5
• Division facts 1-5
• Story problems
• Multiple combinations
• Estimation

• Rounding
• Numbers before and after by ones, twos, threes, fours, fives, and tens
• Counting and combining coins and bills

• Telling time to the nearest minute
• English and some metric measures
• Drawing and measuring lines to one-half inch
• Developing listening skills
• Calendars
• Place value to thousands
• Unit fractions
• Making change
• Reading a thermometer
• Reading pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs
• Roman numerals

​Health, Safety, Manners

Health

• Posture
• Nutrition
• Exercise
• Rest
• Cleanliness
• Fighting Disease

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 

​Bible

Finding God’s Promises

• Obedience comes through trusting God. 
• Students will study the life of Moses through the Book of Exodus.
  

TECHNOLOGY

All students will have the advantage of learning, using computers not only in the classroom but also in our state of the art Computer Lab. Students will become familiar with the basic components of the computer. Computers will be used with age and grade appropriate software. All software will correlate with the school’s curriculum to enhance the child’s learning.

​Spanish

• Numbers 1-20
• Introduction to Reading
• Action Verbs
• Family Members

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Art​

Music​

Physical Education​