Second Grade Curriculum Guide
The Catholic School is a unique faith-centered community, which integrates thinking and believing in ways that encourage intellectual growth, nurture faith, and inspire action.
The commitment to academic excellence, which fosters the intellectual development of all students, is an integral part of the mission of our school.
RELIGION
Your child will learn:
- Prepare and receive the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist
- A journey that covers topics:
- The Creed
- The Trinity
- Mary, the Mother of God
- The Church as the People of God
SOCIAL STUDIES
Your child will learn:
- Read maps and globes
- Communities—past and present
- Consumerism including
- Buying and selling
- Goods and services
- Transportation
- Communication
- Citizenship including
- Laws and Rules
- Community service
MATH
Your child will learn to:
- Count, compare, read, write and order whole numbers to 1000
- Identify the place value of digits ones, tens, hundreds and thousands
- Add and subtract one digit numbers
- Add and subtract with regrouping two digit and three digit numbers
- Tell time to the hour, 1/2 hour, 5 minute and one minute intervals using both standard and digital clocks
- Identify and count: pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters, half-dollars and dollars
- Add and subtract all of the above money amounts
- Read and apply the correct math concepts to problem solving
SCIENCE
Your child will learn:
- General areas of study including
- Dinosaurs
- Solar system
- Animals
- vertebrates
- invertebrates
- LASER Inquiry Based Science Kits
- Balancing and Weighing
- Soils
- Organisms
READING
Your child will learn to:
- Develop vocabulary
- Read Independently
- Use decoding skills when reading
- Read with clarity and expression
- Use reading and pre-reading strategies
- Use context clues
- Retell a story recalling details and sequences
- Distinguish between fantasy and reality
- Draw conclusions
- Map a story-knowledge of setting, characters
- Understand alphabetical order
WRITING
Your child will learn to:
- Write for a wide variety of purposes
- Letters
- Paragraphs
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Use capitalization
- Use ending punctuation
- Write complete, coherent sentences
- Write legibly
- Cursive writing
SPELLING
Your child will learn to:
- Apply spelling generalizations & spelling strategies
- Spell correctly in daily writing
ACTIVITIES
- Sacrament of Reconciliation
- Sacrament of First Holy Communion
- Various field trips
- Weekly science centers
- EDITH House Fire Safety
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Students go to the computer lab on a weekly basis to experience the following:
- Basic keyboarding
- Basic functions
- Basic word processing
- Using educational games
- Computers are in the classroom.
P.E.
Students receive 30 minutes of P.E. two times a week in which the focus is on gross and fine motor skills, learning new games, participation, and respect for others.
MUSIC
Students receive 30 minutes of music twice a week. They continue to focus on singing, adding in movement and background about the songs. They will start learning how written music works. Instruments are used to focus on understanding basic concepts of music. They are expected to perform at least once per year.
ART
The elements and principles of art are integrated into the classroom curriculum through 1 hour of instruction each week with our school’s art teacher.
Your child will create art projects related to the 2nd grade social studies and science curriculum:
- Fish and animal life
- Dinosaurs
- The solar system
Your child will learn skills involved in:
- Watercolor and tempera paints
- Printmaking
- Contour drawing
- Collage
- Papier mache’ and paper and play dough sculpture
- Marbling
- Mobiles
- Proper use and care of materials
HEALTH
- Dental Health
- Nutrition
- Body
September 2007