Students will typically develop skills and learn about concepts not addressed on this page. This resource provides one insight into broad aspects of core curriculum.

• Over the course of a school year, students learn much more than can be depicted in one resource.
• Core curriculum is stated as general expectations for all students.
• This page describes what students must know and be able to do at the end of their school year.
• In all cases, instruction must fit each student’s needs.
• Classroom teachers are the best resource for parents wishing to learn more about their children’s education.
• For more information on materials and approaches used in classrooms, contact the building principal.

Second grade students will....

 
• Use weeks, months and years as intervals of time
• identify and explain how individuals in history demonstrated good character and personal virtue
• recall situations in their lives that required decisions
• describe how people use the environment to meet human needs and wants
• suggest ways that people can help improve their environment
• describe regions in their immediate environment
• compare their community with others
• describe consequences of not having rules
• identify ways families produce and consume goods and services
• connect economic needs with businesses that meet them
• identify an unmet local economic need and propose a plan to meet it 

Second grade students will....

• Identify and explore favorite authors
• describe, compare, and contrast fables and fairy tales
• read and understand short story, personal narrative, journals information and fiction
• use reading, writing, listening, speaking and viewing to make connections
• identify and use parts of speech
• recognize and use complete sentences
• use appropriate punctuation 
• present information to groups
• understand and use word structure to spell correctly
• examine word structure
• use writing process to create original written pieces
• understand and identify author’s main purpose
• identify main idea and draw conclusions

 

Second grade students will....

• Develop solutions to questions about the world
• observe and record evidence of science in their world
• conduct experiments, record and discuss results
• solve unfamiliar problems
• develop strategies and skills for information gathering
• construct charts and graphs
• describe ways in which technology can be used in everyday life
• develop an awareness of and sensitivity to the natural world
• describe basic requirements for all living things

Second grade students will....

• explore numbers by applying part/whole concepts
• add two and three digit whole numbers with regrouping
• subtract two and three digit whole numbers without regrouping
• understand calendars (year, month, week, day)
• understand and use metric measurement
• use monetary skip counting
• add mixed coins
• define and use symmetry and congruency
• use various hands-on materials to learn mathematical concepts