2nd Grade

2A) Mrs. Theresa Allen

2B) Miss Megan Early

FAITH FORMATION HIGHLIGHTS
• First Reconciliation
• First Communion

MAJOR FOCUSES OF SECOND GRADE
• Reading Fluency, small reading groups
• Reading Comprehension – Skills: Main Idea, Compare and Contrast, Author’s Purpose, Story Structure, Cause and Effect, Sequence of Events, Summarizing – Genre: Fiction and Non-Fiction/Informational Text
• Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Building
• Six Writing Traits – Composition and the Writing Process – Journal Writing
• Accelerated Reading (AR)
• Math: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction with or without regrouping, Problem Solving – Skills: Introduction to Geometry, Fractions, Time and Money
• Science/Studies: Research Projects, Simple Experiments, Scholastic Weekly Readers. Topics include: Animals, Space, Natural Resources, Earth Day, Communities, Map Reading

MAJOR PROJECTS OF SECOND GRADE
• First Communion
• Creative Writing
• STREAM

SUBJECTS, TEXTBOOKS & CURRICULUM
• Language Arts – Reading: sadlier ELA
Phonics: Sadlier, English/Grammar: Macmillan and McGrawHill,
Handwriting: Writing our Catholic Faith
• Math – Sadlier Progress in Mathematics
• Religion – Christ in Us Series – Sadlier
• Science – Scott Foresman
• Social Studies – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Spanish (once a week)
• PE (twice a week)
• Art (once a week)
Music (twice a week)
• Clubs/Extra Curricular Activities – Beginning Band- Violins, Ballet, Drama, Irish Step Dancing, Spanish Club, STREAM club, soccer, and more!

TECHNOLOGY
• BenQ Interactive Board, one to one iPads
• Research using the web – World Book/Britannica Online
• Art Projects using Paint/Publisher

FIELD TRIP
• Butterfly World

SUMMER PREPARATION
• READ
• Math Fact Fluency
• IXL.com
• Summer Reading Books (See list on school website)

Ray Daas Math