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Overview of our goals and expectations for the year. This will give you a feeling for things to come throughout the year and the tone of the classroom.

Development in Reading

• Learn to use different strategies in order to become more independent readers.
• Extend their competence in decoding and comprehension.
• Learn to use higher order thinking skills in their comprehension
• Develop and maintain a love for reading.

Reading Curriculum Overview for 2nd Grade:

• Develop different strategies for decoding and comprehending text independently (sounding out, chunking, context and picture clues)
• Identify and use literary components of character, setting, conflict/ problem, events, conclusion, main idea, and details.
• Learn to understand and use higher order thinking skills in comprehension such as predictions, inferences, cause and effect, character mapping, and point of view.
• Identify and use parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns.
• Identify and use contractions, antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms.

Development in Writing

• Understand and learn how to use process writing. (prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, publishing, sharing)
• Understand and learn how to write a 5 sentence paragraph (topic sentence, 3 detail sentences, and a conclusion sentence).
• Develop and maintain a love of writing.

Writing Curriculum Overview for 2nd Grade:

• Will Write Clearly and Effectively (develop concepts and designs, write appropriately for audience and purpose, apply writing conventions such as complete sentences, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.)
• Will Write in a Variety of Forms for Different Audiences and Purposes
• Will understand and use the Steps of the Writing Process (pre-write, draft, revise, edit, publish)
• Will analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of written work
• Will develop Reflective Thought and Positive Moral and Religious Values through Writing

Growth in Faith

• Learn to make prayer an integral part of their life.
• Develop a personal relationship with Jesus.
• Understand the gift of the sacraments especially Eucharist and Reconciliation.
• Receive First Reconciliation in December and First Eucharist in May.

Religion Curriculum Overview for 2nd Grade:

• Discovering our Parish (identify places and items found in the church and used during the Mass)
• Understanding the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation
• Understanding the Sacrament of Reconciliation (in-depth study in order to prepare for Sacrament of Reconciliation)
• Understanding the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist
• Understanding the Sacrament of Eucharist (in-depth study in order to prepare for the Sacrament of the Eucharist)

Develop investigative minds for Science and Social Studies.

Science Curriculum Overview for 2nd Grade:

• Plants
• Animals
• Fossils/Dinosaurs
• Matter
• Sound/Light/Heat
• Force/Magnets/Electricity
• How Your Body Works
• Nutrition
• Keeping Healthy
  * All concepts include use of the scientific method and hands-on experiments and investigations.

Social Studies Curriculum Overview for 2nd Grade:

• Family Ties (family trees, heritage, heirlooms and traditions)
• Earth, Our Home (the fifty states, countries around the world, natural resources, compass rose, reading and using maps, landform maps.)
• A Working World (goods, services, production in farms and factories, trading goods and services, use of money, reading and using route maps)
• We the People (government structures of city, states, and country, exploring Washington D.C., our flag, flags from other countries, use of laws, understanding and using timelines)
• Discovering Our Past (brief history of our country including Native Americans, explorers, colonists, Revolutionary War, Civil War, slavery, pioneers, use of grid maps)
• People, Places, and Holidays (special Americans, special places in America, holidays, celebrations, and customs in the U.S. and other countries, understanding and using bar graphs)

Become more independent problem solvers.

Math Curriculum Overview for 2nd Grade:

• Understanding Addition and Subtraction
• Using Fact Strategies – Sums to 18
• Using Fact Strategies – Differences to 18
• Place Value and Counting Numbers to 100
• Geometry and Graphing
• Money
• 2 Digit Addition (includes trading ones for tens)
• 2 Digit Subtraction (includes trading tens for ones)
• Time
• Measurement and Fractions
• Place Value and Counting Numbers to 1,000
• 3 Digit Addition and Subtraction
• Understanding Multiplication and Division
  * All areas include activities in estimation and problem solving

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