2nd Grade Academics
Below is a list of what we will be learning this year in 2nd Grade. Many of the things that we will be learning this year build on what was taught in 1st Grade last year. I’ll be updating everyone weekly in our class newsletter what we will be learning for that week.
Let me know if you have any questions! Happy Learning!
Language Arts/ Reading
Answer who/what/when/ where/ why/ how questions
Find the main idea and details of a story/paragraph
Recount fables and folktales
Recognize the lesson or moral of a story
Recognize rhythm and alliteration
Understand plot, structure, points of view, and cause and effect in a story
Compare multiple versions of a story
Distinguish long and short vowels, common prefixes and suffixes, and irregular spellings of words
Write complete sentences
Read for fluency and comprehension
Mathematics
Extend understanding of base-ten notation
Understand and use place value
Build fluency with addition and subtraction
Represent and solve multi-step story problems involving addition and subtraction.
Use standard units of measurement
Describe and analyze shapes
Partition shapes into halves, thirds and fourths.
Can tell and write the time of an analog clock to the nearest 5 minutes
Solve word problems involving pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills
Represent and interpret data.
Writing
Informative- Can write about a specific topic, giving facts, definitions and details in their own words.
Narrative- Provides a complex sequence of more than 3 events, using details and transitional words to signal event order and adds a well-developed sense of closure related to the topic sentence.
Opinion- Introduces a clear topic, opinion is complex and clear, supplies 2-3 reasons that are supported with facts and details, uses linking words or phrases to connect reasons, has a well developed closing statement.
Science
Understand the relationship between sound and vibrating objects.
Understand properties of solids and liquids and the changes they undergo.
Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather that occur from day to day.
Understand animal life cycles.
Identify characteristics of various environments and the resources they provide to help
people survive.
Social Studies
Understand how various sources provide information about the past such as time lines, historical people, historical documents, and historical pictures
Use geographic representations, terms and technology to process information from a spatial perspective. Interpret maps that contain symbols, legends, and cardinal directions.
Understand the effects of humans interacting with their environment.
Understand basic economic concepts. Consumer, producer, supply and demand, saving, spending, borrowing, giving.
Understand the purpose of governments.
Understand the roles and responsibilities of citizens.
Understand how various cultures influence communities.