GRADE 2 CURRICULUM *Sample Lesson Request Form at the Bottom of the Page*
Language Arts • Learning to develop basic reading skills • Vocabulary • Reading for information using classic children stories including: Cinderella, A Christmas Carol, Hansel and Gretel, Peter Pan, and Greek and Roman myths Enjoying poetry • Sayings and phrases • Beginning to understand parts of speech • Sentences • Using proper punctuation.
Math • Focusing on math review including basic addition and subtraction problems with 2- and 3-digit numbers; • Multiplication problems as repeated addition problems • Multiplication tables • Understanding numbers to 1,000 by various ways of counting, adding and subtracting horizontally and vertically • Telling time • Measuring • Regrouping • Beginning geometry • Fractions • Multiplication
Science • Introducing the cycles of life from birth to death • Zoology • Botany • Beginning with the seasons. • Presenting experiments to see the world • Understanding health and human growth • Introduction to chemistry • Physics • Astronomy • Earth science • Meteorology
Social Science • Beginning to use maps to find oceans, continents, and the four cardinal directions • Looking at geography • Early history of Mexico, Central America, South America, the Mediterranean countries, Africa, India, China. • Beginning American history to 1776
Fine Arts • Introducing music and the instruments in the orchestra • Kinds of music • Chopin • Architecture of the Greeks • Painters including: Miro, Charles Demuth, Pieter Bruegel and Jan Vermeer • Observing and appreciating sculpture and color. • Acting in a play