Reading/Language Arts

 

                                                                         

Instructional Goals for Students: 

 

·        Apply phonics skills to decode words

·        Apply prior knowledge and prediction to increase comprehension

·        Accurately read most commonly used words and many irregularly spelled words

·        Read basic sight vocabulary

·        Demonstrate the use of meaning and sound to decode new words

·        Use phonics knowledge and structural analysis to read multi-syllable words

·        Understand the use of meaning, sound and picture clues to self-correct

·        Show understanding of what is read through recognition of main idea, details, inference and logical conclusions

·        Use table of contents

·        Read for pleasure in class

·        Participate in class discussions

·        Follow two-step oral directions

·        Read aloud with fluency and comprehension text for second grade

·        Interpret information from diagrams, charts, maps

·        Recall fact and details from text

·        Read to find answers to specific questions

·        Brainstorm and organize ideas during prewriting activities – graphic organizers

·        Develop writing fluency

·        Arrange ideas logically in written compositions

·        Share writing in a variety of ways

·        Understand the basic parts of a sentence

·        Apply spelling rules and concepts appropriate to second grade

·        Use a period after abbreviations, initials and at ends of sentences

·        Use capital letters in proper nouns, places, days, months

 

 

Mathematics

 

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Instructional Goals for Students:    

 

¨     Develop a mathematical language and relate math to daily life

¨     Identify and create a variety of patterns

¨     Explore the four-step problem solving process and strategies

¨     Investigate estimation with quantities and measurement

¨     Practice mental math strategies

¨     Develop an understanding of numeration (1s, 10s, 100s) place value

¨     Memorize addition and subtraction facts through 18

¨     Compute two-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping

¨     Explore meaning of fractions (to 1/8, 1/3, 1/6)

¨     Solve problems involving meaning of fractions

¨     Estimate, measure, and compare lengths, volumes, and weights

¨     Identify time to 5 minute intervals

¨     Count unlike coins to one dollar and five dollars

¨     Sort, classify and discuss properties of plane shapes

¨     Explore congruent figures

¨     Collect, organize and graph information (symbol, bar graphs)

¨     Explore open sentences (3 + _ = 7) (<> greater than, less than)

¨     Write an open sentence to involve a problem

¨     Relate fractions to concrete models

¨     Compare and order numbers

¨     Read various scales such as ruler, protractor, and thermometer

¨     Recognize/use patterns of continuing, repeating

¨     Find solution to problems stated verbally

¨     Determine attributes to classify a set and vice-versa

¨     Construct tables from data

¨     Measurement/partition models for division

¨     Find products of multiples of 10 and 100 mentally

 

 

 

 

Science

                                                    

          Instructional Goals for Students: 

 

·        Construct new scientific knowledge by asking them questions that help them learn about the world

·        Develop solutions to unfamiliar problems

·        Develop strategies and skills for information gathering and problem solving

·        Construct charts and graphs and prepare summaries of observations

·        Reflect on scientific knowledge by:

o       Developing an awareness of the need for evidence in making decisions scientifically

o       Describing ways in which technology is used in everyday life

o       Developing an awareness of and sensitivity to the natural world

o       Developing an awareness of contribution made to science by people of diverse cultures and backgrounds

·        Explain how rocks and fossils are used to understand the history of the earth

·        Explain how fossils provide evidence about the nature of ancient life

·        Describe the basic requirements for all living things

·        Explain how physical and/or behavioral characteristics of organisms help them to survive in their environments

·        Identify familiar organisms as part of a food chain

·        Explain common patterns of interdependence and interrelationships of living things

·        Use simple measurement devices to make metric measurement

·        Measure weight, dimensions, and temperature of appropriate objects and materials

·        Describe or compare motions of common objects in terms of speed and direction

·        Describe how forces are needed to speed up, slow down, stop, or change the direction of a moving object

·        Describe sounds in terms of their properties

·        Explain how sounds are made

·        Describe light from a light source in terms of its properties

·        Explain how shadows are made

 

 

 

 

 

                                                    

 

 

          Social Studies

                                             

      Instructional Goals for Students:

 

¨      Use analog and digital clocks

¨      Use weeks, months, and years as intervals of time

¨      Distinguish among past, present, and future

¨      Identify who was involved, what happened and where it happened in stories about the past

¨      Explain why accounts of the same event differ

¨      Describe ways in which the environment has been changed

¨      Suggest ways people can help improve the environment

¨      Describe consequences of not having rules

¨      Identify rules at school and in the local community and consider consequences for breaking rules

¨      Describe fair ways for groups to make decisions

¨      Understands Core Democratic Values – Pursuit of Happiness, Patriotism, and Equality

¨      Identify ways families produce and consume goods and services

¨      Connect economic needs with businesses that meet them

¨      Identify careers in community

¨      Identify examples of markets they experience in their daily life

¨      Identify United States coin and currency denominations and describe the role of cash in the exchange of goods and services

¨      Locate and organize information using people, books, audio/video recordings, photos, simple maps, graphs, and tables

¨      Help to determine, interpret, and enforce school rules

¨      Participate in projects designed to help others in their local community

 

 

 

 

 

 

           
ADDITIONAL CURRICULUM

 

 

 

       Art

 

                    Students attend art class once a week and receive instruction in a variety of techniques.

 

                                                         

      

 

 

 

       Computers

 

                   Students meet regularly and participate in lessons designed to support classroom curriculum. 

 

 

                                                                                                                            

                              

 

                                                 

  Music

 

                   Students participate in music instruction based on the Orff philosophy. 

                    

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       Physical Education

 

Students participate in physical education activities that support individual & team skill development and lifelong physical fitness. 

 

                                                                                                                                     

     

 

 

Assessment

 

 

                   Teachers use a variety of methods when assessing students.

                   They may include:      

 

                             *  Portfolio Collection            *  Peer Evaluations

                             *  Observations                      *  Surveys

                             *  Demonstrations                  *  Checklists

                             *  Conferences                        *  Formal Assessment

                             *  Self-evaluations                      Instruments