SECOND GRADE CURRICULUM

• story structure (characterizations, setting, main idea)
• reading signs and warnings
• using a dictionary
• reading a map
• expressive writing
• sentence structure
• journals

• conflict/resolution
• poetry
• short narratives
• persuasive writing
• author unit
• exposition
• informative writing

Mathematics

• basic facts
• skip counting patterns
• number line theory
• ordinal numbers
• graphing techniques
• glyphs
• geometry
• 2-digit place value and 3-digit place value
• addition and subtraction without regrouping

• addition with regrouping
• measurement
• money concepts
• problem-solving
• subtraction with regrouping
• fractions
• multiplication
• division
• time

Science

• lab skills
• life cycles - butterflies
• safety
• seasonal changes

• matter (solids, liquids, and gases)
• balancing and weighing
• environmental studies
• recycling

Social Studies

• political systems
• mapping skills (geography)
• parts of a community
• economics
• occupations

• transportation
• communication
• types of communities
• USA - one nation, many communities
• leadership (past and present)