Second Grade is such an eventful and exciting year at BJKM Elementary!
Religion
- Review Baptism
- Explore the parts of the Mass
- Become familiar with some popular saints
- Prepare for and receive the Sacrament of First Reconciliation
- Prepare for and receive the Sacrament of First Eucharist
- Celebrate a special Mass in May to honor all of our First Communicants
Math
- Identify place value through the hundreds place
- Add 1-digit, 2-digit, and 3-digit numbers with and without regrouping (borrowing)
- Make and analyze tables and graphs
- Recognize and count coins (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half dollars)
- Tell time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour and minute
- Explore customary and metric measurement
- Explore plane shapes and solid figures
- Introduce basic fraction skills
Social Studies
- Identify and describe different types of communities
- Describe basic government function on the local, state, and federal levels
- Discriminate between needs and wants
- Identify the importance of managing money
- Define and describe various landforms, bodies of water, climates, and resources
- Use map and globe skills
- Discuss a variety of cultures and holidays
- Identify famous inventors and American heroes
Phonics and Spelling
- Long and short vowel sounds
- Blends
- Digraphs
- Vowel pairs
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Compound words
- Multiple syllables
- Antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms
Handwriting
- Review correct formation of manuscript (printed letters)
- Write uppercase and lowercase cursive letters in isolation as well as in words and phrases
Grammar
- Identify the different kinds of sentences
- Correctly choose punctuation for the end of sentences
- Identify proper and common nouns
- Form possessive nouns
- Discriminate between and form singular and plural nouns
- Identify action verbs and linking verbs
- Form contractions
- Identify adverbs and adjectives
- Correctly use quotation marks and commas
- Identify prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Combine and separate compound sentences
Earth Science
- Investigate plants and animals.
- Study their habitats. How do they get food? Where do they sleep? How do they survive?
- Look at different states of matter – solids, liquids, and gases and how they change
- Study the weather and how it affects us.
- Examine the sun and the moon
- Why we have night and day and four seasons.
- Travel to space and explore the planets and stars
In Reading, we read stories from a variety of genres, including…
- Realistic fiction
- Nonfiction
- Informational text
- Expository
- Fantasy
- Drama
- Folk tales
- Biography
- Humorous fiction
In Reading, we also learn a variety of comprehension skills, including…
- Main idea and details
- Character, setting, plot, and theme
- Compare and contrast
- Cause and effect
- Fact and opinion
- Fantasy and reality
- Author’s purpose
- Sequential order
- Drawing conclusions