What will your child learn this year?

What will your child learn this year?

To build reading skills, these are a few things your second grader will do this year:

Read more complex words, such as two-syllable words.
Read words with common prefixes and suffixes, for example: pre-, re-, un-, -able, -ad, and -er.
Read a variety of texts including fiction, non-fiction, fables, and poetry.
Understand the structure of a story, specifically the purpose of beginnings (introducing the text) and endings (concluding the text).
Understand the most important details of a text—its main purpose and the “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” “why,” and “how.”
Talk about characters’ responses, main events, lessons learned, and important ideas or concepts.
Begin to make connections within and between texts.
Compare at least two different versions of the same story.
Our topics that we will study using a variety of stories are: Schools and Community, Fossils and Paleontology, The secret world of Pollination, and Providing for Pollinators.
And lots more!!

To build math skills, these are a few things your second grader will do this year:

Adding and subtracting within 100 fluently.
Understanding even and odd numbers.
Understanding place value up to 1,000 (also being able to add and subtract within 1,000 using place value strategies).
Using and comparing standard units of measure, such as inches and centimeters.
Creating picture graphs, bar graphs, and number line plots.
Counting money and solving word problems involving money
Identifying shapes and describing them based on specific traits.
Making arrays (ex: 4 columns and 3 rows) and writing a repeated addition sentence.
And lots more!!

To build writing skills, these are a few things your second grader will do this year:

Write a variety of types of texts including:
- Opinion Pieces: Students state their opinions and provide reasons to support them, closing with a conclusion.
- Narrative Pieces: Students write about an event, describing actions, thoughts, and feelings, and provide a conclusion.
- Informative/Explanatory Pieces: Students introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a conclusion.
Revise and edit writing to improve it.
Use digital tools with the aid of the teacher to publish writing.
Research topics for shared, group, or class-wide research and writing projects.

To build Science and Social studies skills, these are the things your second grader will learn about this year: