Language Arts 

• Through the literary elements of fiction, traditional literature, poetry, biography and non-fiction children will experience a wide range of instructional activities in listening, reading, writing, discussing and/or speaking. 

Reading 

• Construct meaning from print and pictures 
• Make connections between themselves, their experiences and books 
• Predict, recall and summarize stories, information and experiences 
• Identify character, setting, problem/solution, and story sense 
• Acquire vocabulary and multiple word meanings 
• Sequence the events of a story 
• Identify and use traditional and electronic sources of information 
• Reread a paragraph or sentence to establish meaning 
• Understand that reading is a way of gaining information about the world 
• Respond in oral and written form to material read 
• Expand and apply a repertoire of reading strategies (concepts of print, graphophonic analysis, print structures, and structural analysis) 

Listening and Speaking 

• Retell and react to stories 
• Follow simple directions 
• Ask questions to improve comprehension 
• Listen for specific purposes 
• Develop and expand vocabulary by speaking and listening 
• Retell story with details 
• Express feelings 
• Participate in classroom discussions 

Writing 

• Use cursive handwriting skills 
• Use standard spelling 
• Revise to improve content, grammar, and sentence structure 
• Use pictures or words to develop topic 
• Use basic sentence structure and expand with descriptive words 
• Demonstrate logical flow 
• Begin to use time/order transitions and paragraphing (first, the next day, in summer) 
• Use capitalization and punctuation 
• Begin to write independently 

Mathematics 

• Compare, read, order, and write numbers to 1,000 
• Use comparison symbols (<, >, =) correctly 
• Regroup and rename quantities of objects into hundreds, tens, and ones and record with placevalue notation 
• Construct fact families for addition/subtraction 
• Count by 2's, 5's, and 10's to 100, starting at various points 
• Explore and later investigate problem-solving situations involving joining and separating models  of addition and subtraction using manipulatives, language, symbols, and number sentences 
• Use measuring tools for centimeters and inches 
• Tell time to five minute intervals 
• Investigate values, quantities, equivalence, and number patterns with pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, and dollars 
• Order, count, and tally various types of information. 
• Explore counting a collection objects by arranging them into groups of equal size and connecting  them to number sense and patterns 

Science 

• Identify components of a habitat and tell how they work together as a system 
• Predict how changes will impact a habitat 
• Build simple food chains 
• Identify the characteristics of liquids and gases 
• Predict how solids, liquids, or gases will change the input or or output of heat energy 
• Identify sound as a vibration 
• Identity factors that cause seasonal change. 
• Measure and record weather data and predict patterns of change 
• Ask questions, make observations, and describe patterns using scientific method 
• Name tools and explain how tools help us do work 

Social Studies

• Comprehend how people learn and work together
• Understand different types of communities 
• Learn about farms, factories and trading 
• Gain knowledge about our country, its capital and government 
• Develop basic understanding of world citizenship and respecting others 
• Learn about celebrations of American history and around the world 
•  Use maps, atlases and globes 

World Languages
By the end of second grade, students will: 

• Recognize basic language patterns (e.g., forms of address, questions, case) 
• Respond appropriately to simple commands and ask simple questions with prompts
• Imitate pronunciation, intonation and inflection including sounds unique to the target language 
• Recognize the written form of familiar spoken language 
• Infer meaning of cognates from context 
• Copy/write words, phrases and simple sentences 
• Describe people, activities and objects from school and home 
• Use common forms of courtesy, greetings and leave-takings 
• Identify and demonstrate one or more art forms (e.g., Japanese origami, Spanish flamenco) representative of areas where the target language is spoken 

Physical Education/Wellness 
By the end of second grade, students should be able to: 

• Execute a variety of motor and social skills for individual and team sports and conditioning activities and know the effects of regular exercise and leisure activity 
• Recognize the importance of maintaining body control while participating in a variety of activities requiring starting, stopping, changing directions and levels, and know the positive effects of these activities 
• Demonstrate a variety of fitness and exercise components 
• Recognize the optimal amount of exercise needed per week 
• Recognize the affective benefits derived from regular participation in physical activity 

Health 
By the end of second grade, students will: 

• Know that major body parts work together 
• Understand the importance of exercise 
• Identify the components of wellness 
• Recognize the importance of safety 
• Learn appropriate steps to ensure their safety and health 

General Music
Students will have instructional and experiential activities in: 

• Interactive listening process involving music perception, cognition, analysis, and evaluation resulting in aesthetic awareness 
• Personal experiential interaction with music through singing, playing, performing, and moving 
• Creative composition/arranging for organized sound designed to express feelings 
• Spontaneous creation of original music 
• Formal/constructive elements of music theory, vocabulary, syntax, and symbolic representations of music 
• Historical, social and cultural context for musical insight 

Fine Arts 

• Recognize, identify, and demonstrate an understanding of the sensory elements and organizational principles of design as well as the expressive qualities of the visual arts 
• Recognize, identify, and demonstrate the basic use of materials and tools in order to understand  how works of art are produced 
• Create individual works of visual art 
• Understand that works of art shape, reflect and play a role in societies, cultures, and civilizations, past and present