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School Curriculum
These pages feature the curriculum for each grade level. This curriculum is followed by our teaching staff to provide the highest possible level of achievement with each student. While our teachers have the freedom to add to the curriculum on an as need basis, each parent can expect the basic curriculum to be the guide for each class.
Additional information will be added to these class pages by our teaching staff. Please visit often to review the curriculum and see additional material that is added.
To view the curriculum for a grade, click that grade on the links below.
Second Grade Curriculum Guide
Bible
- Students have daily exposure to God's Word through Bible stories, memory verses, and Bible workbook.
- Students learn a weekly memory verse.
- A Bible story is read daily, followed by prayer.
- Students attend Chapel weekly.
- Students learn about the Bible through our Bible workbook, reading the Bible, and in our discussions.
- In our classroom Bible studies we learn about:
- The Life of Jesus
- God’s Plan for Joseph
- Using the Bible
- How God Cares for His People
Text: ACSI, Grade 2 Series
Art
Art is integrated in many areas of the curriculum and students receive special instruction weekly. The focus will be directed towards promoting and developing student confidence by involving them in art activities that they can directly relate to. They will learn to observe their surroundings and make discoveries. Exploration of their imaginations is valued as much as observations made of their surroundings. Eye and hand coordination is developed through various art media and tools. Art history, aesthetics, and criticism are introduced in simple terms. Whenever possible, art lessons will be integrated with the core subjects from the classroom.
Computer
Students receive weekly instruction in the computer lab where keyboarding skills are taught as well as other special assignments. Students also have access to computers in the classroom.
Computer Software Used:
Type to Learn-Sunburst Math Rescue and Word Rescue-Crystalvision
Math Magic 1 & 2-Jacobson Knight's Castle-Fisher Price
ColorMe –Innervision Ready For Letters-The Learning Company
Outnumbered-The Learning Company Treasure Mathstorm-The Learning Company
Word Processing -Microsoft Works
Critical Thinking
Problem solving and critical thinking are stressed in all area of the curriculum.
History/Geography (Social Studies)
Students learn about the following areas:
- Families and Neighbors
- Community Helpers
- Neighborhood Stores
- How We Travel/Travel Museum
- Communication in the Past and Present
- Maps/Landforms & Memorization of Continents/Oceans
Students follow current events such as the Olympics, Elections, and the President.
Students study themes such as Black History Month and Famous Inventors.
Text: Our America, History/Geography Reader (ABeka)
Language and Writing
- Students practice handwriting.
- Students continue to practice manuscript and begin cursive writing during the third quarter of school.
- Students learn sentence structure and types of sentences.
- Students are able to identify and write complete sentences using capitalization and punctuation.
- Students identify and describe declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.
- Students learn parts of speech.
- Nouns: singular, plural, common and proper
- Verbs: action, regular and irregular, verb tenses
- Pronouns: personal, subject, object, possessive
- Adjectives
- Students are introduced to different types of poetry and compose original poems.
- Students identify rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and alliteration.
- Students learn various forms of writing:
- Personal Narratives
- Descriptive Writing
- Invitations
- Friendly Letters
- Thank You Letters
- Envelopes
- Book Reports
- Journals
- Poems
- Taking Messages
- Students compose original stories using the writing process.
- Students brainstorm, complete a draft, make corrections with the teacher, rewrite and publish stories.
Texts: Language Arts Today (ABeka); Sounds & Letters (ABeka)
Math
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following:
- Addition and Subtraction Facts Numbers and Patterns to 1000
- Place Value, Odd/Even, Comparing Numbers, Rounding, Order Data and Graphing
- Tally, Pictograph, Bar Graphs, Money
- Identifying and counting coins, Making change
- Adding and Subtracting Two-Digit and Three-Digit Numbers
- Geometry, Fractions and Probability
- Multiplication and Division
- Problem Solving Strategies are incorporated in each unit.
Text: Purposeful Design Mathematics, ACSI, Grade Two Edition
Length: all year
Music
- Students receive weekly-organized instruction and are exposed to different types of music in the classroom as well.
- Eighth rest, Step/skip/repeat, Treble clef, Space notes, Line notes, Bar lines, Measure, Harmony, Meter, Form: ABC/ABABA
Physical Education
- Students will gain movement competency while exploring gross and fine motor skills.
- Students will demonstrate responsible behavior while learning cooperative teamwork.
- Healthy life style choices will be stressed.
Reading
- Students receive instruction in whole group and small group settings.
- Students learn phonics and word decoding skills:
- Short and Long Vowels
- Consonant Digraphs
- Consonant Blends
- Contractions
- Compound Words
- Syllabication
- Students expand their vocabulary.
- New words are introduced daily through "Word of the Day", daily oral reading, current events, poetry, and other genres.
- Students expand their listening and reading comprehension. Students learn comprehension skills through:
- Guided Reading
- Following Directions
- Predicting Outcomes
- Drawing Conclusions
- Distinguishing between Fact and Fiction
- Identifying Main Ideas and Supporting Details
- Compare and Contrast Characters and Stories
- Accelerated Reader
- Students are able to recall and sequence events in a story and define story elements:
- Beginning, Middle, and End, Setting, Characters, Problem, Solution
Texts: World of Reading (Silver Burdette); Clues for Better Reading (Curriculum Associates)
Length: all year
Science
The purpose of the second grade science curriculum is to stimulate students' interest through a study of the wonders of creation. The following topics are explored:
- Living and Nonliving
- Animals - Life Cycles, Habitats, Rainforest
- Insects
- Magnets
- Introduction to Space
- Weather/Water Cycle/Oceans
Text: Enjoying God’s World; ABeka
Spanish
- Students will demonstrate a progressive ability in communicating both orally and written in Spanish.
- Students will begin to understand the spoken language in familiar phrases, animals, foods, colors, numbers, months, familiar objects, and weather phrases.
- Students will explore customs from Spanish-speaking countries.
Text: Espanol para ti
Spelling
Students have a weekly Spelling List and are given a test each Friday. Dictation sentences are also given along with the list words.
Text: ACSI: Spelling, Grade 2 Series
Length: all year
Study Skills
Students begin developing study skills in the following areas:
- Parts of a Book
- Dictionary Skills
- Entry Words
- Guide Words
- Definitions
- Alphabetical Order
- Using an Encyclopedia
- Using Maps, Charts, and Calendars
- Telephone Skills
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