Second/Third Grade Main Lesson Blocks
- Fables and Nature Tales
- Dreamers and Doers
- Creation Stories from Around the World
- Farming
- Shelters around the World
- Stories of the Ancient Hebrew People
- Language Arts: Grammar
- Math: Place Value, Measurement, Money
- Class Play
Second Grade Language Arts
- Lower case letters
- Study of decoding and encoding via stories from cultures around the world, including the biographies of John Lewis, Wangari Maathai, Hehaka Sapa, and William Kamkwamba
- Building phonological awareness: rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmenting, syllable blending, and segmenting.
- Narrative sequencing and comprehension through retelling of stories
- Vocabulary expansion: finding synonyms, word association
- Continuing with the sequential approach to language arts from first grade: decoding and encoding long vowel words
- Introduction to elementary grammar: capitalization, basic punctuation, simple tenses, plural formation, nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Writing whole class and individual compositions to retell an event or a story
- Reading decodable books and stories, and beginning to read chapter books
- Recitation; speech exercises
- Poetry
- Introduction to cursive writing
Second Grade Math
- Review and extension of all previous content
- Regrouping (carrying) and renaming (borrowing) in addition and subtraction
- Introduction of place value
- Problem solving, cont. (transition from mental/manipulatives to written)
- Skip counting; 1-12
- Introduction of the multiplication tables, 1-12
- Numeracy: Subitizing 1-12
- Geometry (Form drawing) :
- Review and extension of previous content
- Progressions, moving forms
- Symmetry, cont.; horizontal & radial symmetry