Second Grade Scope
What Your Child Will Learn in Calvert's Second Grade Course
Reviewing word analysis techniques, long vowels, digraphs, consonant clusters, vowel pairs, blends, and r-controlled vowels; developing comprehension skills; building strategies for comparing, contrasting, predicting, inferring, and drawing conclusions; identifying cause and effect; summarizing; recognizing topics, main ideas, and details; reading appealing anthologies and phonics library book of stories; developing critical thinking skills Writing/CompositionPracticing Calvert Script as reinforcement of learning to read; writing dictated words and sentences; writing compositions; practicing spelling and vocabulary; learning rules of punctuation MathematicsFeaturing Calvert Math. Adding and subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers; money; patterns in addition and subtraction; measuring weight, capacity, and temperature; problem-solving strategies; telling time in 5-minute increments; 2- and 3-dimensional geometric figures; fractions; sets; introducing multiplication and division ScienceDeveloping natural curiosity; questioning, investigating, experimenting; studying living things, our Earth, weather, matter, motion, and energy. Social StudiesExploring original read-aloud narratives that include biographies of legendary Old World figures, explorers, inventors, and leaders in American life, as well as accounts of famous events (Paul Revere’s ride, fall of the Berlin Wall); investigating the five themes of geography, compass direction, maps, symbols, globes, continents, relative and exact locations, boundaries, and regions; extending the fundamentals of American civics and government (cooperation, accountability, conflict resolution, patriotism); examining the economic concepts of goods and services, income, scarcity of resources, markets, and banking; activities included TechnologyApplication lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tool integrated with curriculum: keyboarding; introduction to touch typing; word processing basics; introduction to spreadsheets; using e-mail and the Internet; beginning database skills; visual mapping. Internet activities integrated with ArtDeveloping new skills in drawing; studying famous paintings Go back to Calvert's Second Grade Curriculum page.
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