Grade 2 Academics
RELIGION
UNIT 1 – “Jesus
Christ Is With Us Always”
Chapter 3 - We
Celebrate God’s Love
Children will learn about the work of Jesus and the beginning of the
Church. They will learn about the sacraments and ways we worship God.
Chapter 4 - We
Celebrate Baptism
Children will learn that at Baptism we become children of God and members of
the Church. We receive grace, a share in God’s life.
Chapter 5 - We
Celebrate Confirmation
Children will learn that in the Sacrament of Confirmation will celebrate the
Gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit strengthens us.
Chapter 6 - The Church Year The
Children will learn that be means of the yearly cycle the Church celebrates the
whole mystery of Christ.
Chapter 7- Ordinary
Time
Children will learn that during Ordinary Time we celebrate
Jesus Christ and how to follow him.
This year as part of our Middle States
Accreditation will be studying The Corporal Works of Mercy. The Catholic Church gives a special name to
good deeds done for others. The Corporal Works of Mercy are actions done out of
love and care for other people
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS
Book 2
Unit-1 Look Around-There are surprises all
around us.
Stories of the Week
READING SKILLS
Genre Problem
and Solution
Make Inferences Role-Play
Sequence of Events Plot
Compare and Contrast Characters
Make Predictions Comprehension
Context Clues Cause and Effect
GRAMMAR
Chapter 3 -Verbs
Action Verbs Verbs- Saw and Seen
Verbs in Present Tense Verbs – Being Verbs-Am, Is, Are
Verbs Has and Have Verbs-
Being Verbs- Was, Were
Helping Verbs Adverbs
Writer’s Workshop –Friendly Letter
Parts of a Friendly Letter-Date, Greeting, Body, Closing, Signature
What is a
How-To-Article?
A how-to-article teaches others to make something or do something.
MATH
CHAPTER 6 - GEOMETRY
1.
Solid Figures
2.
Faces, Edges, and Vertices
3.
Plane Figures-Circles,
triangles, rectangle and squares
4.
To identify the number of
sides, vertices, and angles of closed figures.
5.
Congruent Figures
6. Lines of Symmetry
7.
Distinguish slides, flips
and turns
8.
Identify, describe and extend patterns with geometric shapes
9.
Problem Solving-Logical Reasoning-Use a Pattern and Multi-Steps
10.
Locate ordered pairs on a coordinate grid.
CHAPTER 7 – MONEY AND TIME
1. Value of
Pennies, Nickels and Dimes
2. Value of Quarters and Half Dollars
3. To show amounts of money in more than one
way.
4. To compare an amount of money to cost of an
item.
5. Making Change
6. Add and Subtract Money
7.
Identify Dollar and Cents.
8. To tell time to hour and half hour
9.
Five minute intervals and quarter hour
10. To determine elapse time
11. Estimate Time
SOCIAL STUDIES
UNIT 3 THEME- HISTORY – OUR PAST
1.
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2. “The Spanish Come to
3. “The Pilgrims Arrive” – Recognize how the
Pilgrims overcame hardship, and showed love of individualism.
4. “From Colonies to States” – Explain how
the original 13 colonies became the
5. “Our Country At
War” – Explain why the Civil War was fought.
6.
“From Sea to Sea” – Describe how the
SCIENCE
UNIT
B – HOMES FOR PLANTS AND ANIMALS
CHAPTER
3 –LAND HABITATS
1. “Where Plants and Animals Live-Define habitats and identify
the needs of plants and animals
2. “Life in a
3. “Life in a Rain Forest” – Identify features of a rain forest
and plants and animals that live there. Explore how rain forest animals find
shelter.
4. “Life in a Desert” – Identify features of a desert and plants and animals that live
there.
5. “Life in the Artic” – Identify features of an Artic habitat and the plants and animals
that
live there.