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Core Syllabi: Following are the specific items taught in the second grade curricular areas.
Grading Practices follow the syllabi.
2nd Grade Math
- In addition to whole group instruction, concepts are taught through use of various manipulatives, small group activities, and explorations.
Addition
o Use one and two digit addition strategies
o Identify missing addends
o Solve number stories
o Know basic facts and fact families
· math fact practice – program ranges from addition to division
Subtraction
o Use one and two digit subtraction strategies
o Solve number stories
o Know basic facts and fact families
Geometry
- Identify 2D and 3D shapes
- Identify symmetrical figures
- Find common attributes of shapes
- Identify parallel and nonparallel line segments
- Draw line segments
Time
o Tell time to 5 minute intervals
o Compute elapsed time
o Demonstrate calendar concepts and skills
Money
o Calculate the values of coin and bill combinations
o Make change
o Show equivalent amounts of coins
o Estimate approximate costs and sums
o Solve money stories
o Read and write money in decimal notation
o Exchange pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Graphing
o Plot data on a bar graph
o Compare quantities from a bar graph
Number sense
o Identify place value for numbers up to five digits
o Find equivalent names for numbers
o Compare numbers using <, >, and =
o Make tallies and give the total
o Identify number patterns
o Count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
Fractions
o Identify simple fractions of a whole or a set
o Compare simple fractions
Multiplication/Division
o Multiply numbers with 0, 1, 2, 5, or 10 as a factor
o Construct multiplication/division fact families
o Solve simple multiplication/division number stories
Measurement
o Read degrees F on a thermometer
o Measure to the nearest inch, ½ inch
o Measure to the nearest centimeter, ½ centimeter
o Use appropriate units for measurement
o Find area and perimeter
Common Assessments:
Basic Facts Assessments – five times during the year
Pre and Post Tests for Grade level, Fall and Spring
Quarterly assessments for report card
Unit Assessments
2nd Grade Language Arts
Reading Content/Genres:
Fiction
- Identify text as fiction.
- Read a variety of fiction text.
Non-fiction
o Identify text as non-fiction.
o Read a variety of non-fiction text.
Poetry
o Identify rhyming patterns and rhythm.
o Read a variety of poetry.
o Interpret meaning of the text.
· Group performance poetry in April
Reading Skills:
Text Structure
- Identify beginning, middle, end, character, plot, setting, problem, and solution.
o Able to identify cause and effect.
o Determine main ideas and details of text.
Reading Strategies
o Students are able to make connections to the text.
o Students are able to determine importance and ask questions related to text.
o Students use visualization and monitor comprehension in order to understand what is read.
Vocabulary Development
o Recognize words with unknown meanings.
o Use context clues to determine word meaning.
o Use picture/text clues to determine word meaning.
Literary Devices
o Identify rhyming patterns
Word Recognition
- Identify familiar patterns in words. (root words/base words, prefixes, suffixes)
o Recognize beginning sounds.
o Uses known words to figure out new words. (spelling patterns)
Writing Topics/Genres
Content Topic 1- Personal Narrative
o Includes beginning, middle, and end.
Content Topic 2- “How To” article
o Compose a piece in sequential order.
Content Topic 3- Letters
o Demonstrates correct letter format.
Content Topic 4- Report
o Includes main idea and supporting details.
Writing Skills
Control of Language
o Capturing a beginning, middle, and closing in their writing.
Content/Composition
o Uses the writing process. (planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing)
Grammar/Spelling
Content Topic 1- Word Wall
o Use word wall words correctly.
o Spell word wall words correctly.
Content Topic 2- Sentence Writing
o Constructs a complete sentence including subject and predicate.
o Applies capitalization and punctuation.
Content Topic 3- Parts of Speech
o Identify and use nouns and pronouns correctly.
o Identify and use verbs correctly.
o Identify and use adjectives correctly
Common Assessments:
- Reading comprehension assessments
- Rigby benchmarks
2nd Grade Science
Animal Life Cycles
o Identify that living things produce offspring that resemble their parents but have individual differences.
o Distinguish that life cycle changes are different for different animals.
o Explain how some animals change form as they grow from baby to adult, and how changing structures help them function in different environments.
Environments
o Demonstrate understanding that an environment is made up of plants and animals, and nonliving things such as soil, water, rocks, and air.
o Describe how living things meet their needs in two habitats: a stream habitat and a woodland habitat.
o Discuss how natural and human-made changes can affect the living things in an environment.
Energy Needs
o Describe how living things get energy from food.
o Show how energy passes from one living thing to another in food chains and webs.
o Recognize that eating healthful foods from each food group gives humans energy and helps them stay healthy.
Rocks, Soils, and Fossils
o Identify that rocks and soils have different properties that make them useful in different ways.
o Describe how weathering and erosion change Earth’s surface.
o Interpret how fossils provide clues about plants and animals that lived in the past.
Using and Saving Resources
o Identify natural resources people use (such as air, water, soil, rocks, and plants).
o Recognize how people can change the environment in harmful and helpful ways.
o Share ways in which people can conserve natural resources by reducing their use of natural resources and recycling and reusing items made from natural resources.
Comparing Matter
o Explain that objects can be described by properties such as size, shape, and color.
o Classify matter as solid, liquid, or gas.
o Illustrate how taking away or adding heat can cause matter to change states.
Making Sound
o Demonstrate that sound is made when matter vibrates, and understand that vibrations in the human ear cause us to hear that sound.
o Discuss how sound travels differently through different states of matter.
o Describe sounds in terms of pitch and volume.
Objects in motion
o Describe how the position of an object can be described by locating it in relation to another object, and pushes and pulls are forces that change the positions of objects.
o Discuss how distance and speed are measures of motion.
o Explain how ramps, levers, and pulleys are simple machines that make work easier.
Magnets
o Demonstrate how magnets attract and repel each other and some other objects.
o Determine that objects that contain iron are magnetic; objects made from glass, paper, wood, or plastic are not.
o Explain how a magnet can attract or repel only those objects that are in its magnetic field.
Scientific Method
o Learn and use the steps of the scientific method:
State the problem
Observe to form a question
Hypothesize
Experiment/Test the hypothesis
Make a conclusion
2nd Grade Social Studies
Communities Past and Present
o Compare the life of pioneers to life today after field trip to Pioneer Village
o Identify the goods and services in a community
o Identify community helpers
· Walking field trip to the Fire Station
· Walking field trip to the Vet Clinic
Map Skills
o Locate the continents and oceans
o Locate the U.S. and Wisconsin on a map and globe
o Identify landforms
o Interpret maps
Citizenship
o Understand the need for laws and rules
o Explain the significance of national and state holidays
o Discuss current events using Weekly Reader or Scholastic News
Individual Syllabus for Mr. Casetta
o Opportunities for individual and group work
o Regular practice and timed tests of math facts to improve confidence and efficiency
o Regular classroom meetings for teacher/students to build community, share ideas and concerns
o Writer’s workshop process of plan, rough, draft, revise, edit, publish (possible ways of publishing: adding illustration, typing on the computer, reading to class, displaying in room)
o Regular time for student self-selected reading
o Weekly computer lab time (possible projects: software emphasizing curricular topics, Internet navigation, preparing/presenting PowerPoint slideshow presentations)
o Walking field trips to highlight elements of the curriculum (e. g., environment/habitat, elements of a community)
o Bussed field trips to augment curriculum (possible trips: Pioneer Village, Riveredge Nature Center)
Grading Practices
-Students are graded individually based on their achievement in relation to state or district standards for second grade.
-Our report card has separate grades for academic achievement and behavior/work habits.
-Grading is used as a reference to help identify areas of student strength and assist students in areas of need.
-Not all work is graded, but can be checked or utilized to again help identify strengths and assist students in areas of need.
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