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Scope and Sequence - Second Grade

Science

Life Science

Insects

• Ways insects are helpful and harmful to people (pollination, spreading disease)
• Parts of insects (six legs and three main body parts)
• Metamorphosis (caterpillars changing to butterflies)
• Social insects (ants and honey bees)

Human Body

• Cells: the building blocks of all plants and animals
• Idea that cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs and organs work in systems)
• The digestive system (salivary glands, small and large intestines)
• Excretory system (kidneys, bladder)
• Healthy diet ( food pyramid, vitamins and minerals)

Physical Science

Magnetism

• Magnetic poles: north-seeking and south-seeking poles
• Magnetic fields (strongest at poles)
• Law of magnetic attraction: unlike poles attract, like poles repel
• How to use a compass

Simple Machines

• How simple machines make work easier (lever, inclined plane)
• What friction is, and how to reduce it (lubricants, rollers)

Earth Science

Cycles of Nature

• The seasons change as the earth orbits the sun
• How seasons affect living things (migrations, hibernations)
• The life cycle: birth, growth, reproduction, and death
• Basic life cycles of plants and animals
• The water cycle (evaporation, condensation, and precipitation

Math

Numbers and Number sense

• Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 1,000
• Count forward and backward by 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s, 50s, 100s
• Use a number line
• Identify ordinal position 1 – 20
• Identify even and odd numbers
• Identify place value in 3 digit numbers
• Round numbers to the nearest 10
• Make and read simple chars and bar graphs
• Extend patterns that use numbers and symbols (5, 8, 11, 14 …) (@, #, *, $, ^, @, #...)
• Recognize simple fractions ½, 1/3, ¼, 1/5, 1/6, 1/9

Money

• Read and write money amounts using signs for dollar, cents and decimal points
• Show different combination of coins that = the same amount

Computation

• Learn addition and subtraction facts to 18
• Add and subtract two and three digit numbers
• Estimate sums and differences
• Use addition to check subtraction
• Practice multiplying single digit numbers by 1,2,3,4,5
• Solve simple word problems involving addition, subtraction and multiplication.
• Solve simple equations in the form of ___ - 9 = 7, 4 x __ = 8

Measurement

• Estimate, measure, compare objects by size, weight, capacity and quantity
• Make measurements using standard units (quarts, degrees, feet…)
• Tell time to 5 minute intervals
• Learn to write the date and find it on the calendar
• Solve simple problems using elapsed time (how much time has passed)

Geometry

• Learn properties of basic shapes (squares, triangles, rectangles)
• Measure perimeter of basic shapes
• Associate solid figures with planar shapes (sphere / circle, square / cube)
• Identify lines of symmetry and create simple symmetric figures (object that is divided into two symmetrical pieces by a line)

Bible*

*(These objectives are under review this year and will be reconstructed during this year)

Bible Characters

• Moses, Joshua, Daniel, Job
• Esther, Elijah, Jesus, Ruth
• David, Nehemiah, Miriam, Abraham
• Mary & Martha, Peter, Paul, Barnabas
  

Language Arts

Reading

In addition to first grade objectives,

• Continue to sound out words
• Accurately read single-syllable and most two-syllable words
• Recall incidents, characters, facts, and details of texts
• Answer what, how, why, and what-if questions about reading
• Discuss similarities in characters and events from different stories
• Retell stories and explain information learned from a text in their own words
• Read outside of school at least fifteen minutes daily.

Literature

• Read and listen to poems (Christina Rosetti’s Hurt No Living Thing, Nancy Byrd Turner’s Lincoln, Clement C. Moore’s The Night Before Christmas)
• Read and listen to stories (Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The African tale, Talk)
• Read nonfiction prose (accounts of real-life heroes)
• Read Greek myths (How Prometheus Brought Fire, Oedipus and the Sphinx)
• Read American tall tales (Johnny Appleseed. Daniel Boone)
• Learn more basic literary terms (myth, limerick, mood, tone, characterization, setting, plot, dialogue, suspense, surprise, point of view, narration)
• Tell and write their own stories

Other Language Arts

• Correctly spell words containing spelling patterns studied so far
• Learn and review spelling rules
• Begin using dictionary to check spelling and word meanings
• Learn some common contractions and abbreviations
• Provide synonyms and antonyms for given word.
• Identify subjects and predicates in simple sentences
• Learn what nouns are, how to make singular nouns plural
• Study correct usage of verbs, how to change from present to past tense
• Learn what adjectives are, use adjectives to compare by adding er and est
• Practice using capital letters, periods, question marks, exclamation points
• Learn to use commas in dates and addresses

Writing

In addition to first grade objectives,

• Write paragraphs (expository, descriptive, and narrative) that use 3-5 sentences and have a beginning, middle and ending, as well as supportive detail.

Technology

• Computer Basics – working on-line
• Introduction to Word - Create new documents, save, print and re-open documents
• Keyboarding
• Working online (supervised)
• Websites using classroom topics

Social Studies*

*(These objectives are under review and will be reconstructed during this year)

• Continents
• States
• American People Groups
  • Colonists
  • Pioneers
  • Indians
  • Cowboys
• Black History Month
• Christmas around the world
• Iditarod
• New Americans
• Tomorrow’s America
• Geography
• Hawaii