Second Grade...Where Young Minds Grow!

We are five teachers with 75 combined years of teaching experience. We teach 88 students how to read, write, compute, think scientifically, and become good citizens. Combined, we have visited 38 countries around the world, speak 8 languages, and WE LOVE TO TEACH! What do we expect from our students? Kindness and compassion. Hard work! The desire to challenge ourselves. A smile and a curiosity of the world.

Please read with your child every night. Twenty minutes is a great amount of time. At this age, children still love to be read to, so please enjoy this time with them. It helps them build strong bonds with you.

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2nd Grade

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2nd Grade

    What Do We Expect from our Students
    • Kindness and compassion;
    • Hard work;
    • The desire to challenge ourselves;
    • A smile and a curiosity about the world!
    What We're Learning in. . .

    Crew

    • Important ideas: developing relationships, exploring our world, leadership, Habits of a Scholar (executive skills, perseverance, enthusiasm, compassion, teamwork), goal-setting, cultural connections, current events, literacy, numeracy, Second Step

    Literacy

    • Important topics: key ideas of grade-level text; comprehension of grade-level text; using text features like bold words and captions; grade level phonics (short and long vowels, digraphs and blends, bossy r, C+le, prefixes/suffixes, contractions, compound words); strategies for reading new words; communicating about reading through conversation, writing, and digital formats; conducting research; reading and writing poetry; writing narratives, opinions, and informational text; spelling grade-level appropriate words

    Math

    • Important topics: Important topics: math facts to 20; double digit addition and subtraction; place value to 1,000; time; money to $1.00; reading, analyzing and creating charts and graphs; measurement in inches, feet, centimeters, and meters; simple fractions; names and attributes of 2D and 3D shapes, multiplication through repeated addition

    Social Studies

    • Key ideas: citizenship; communities and maps; Basalt history; saving and spending money on what we want and need; resolving conflict

    Science

    • Key ideas: animals and plant adaptations, properties of materials, landforms and water bodies, Earth’s forces like erosion and flooding, patterns, modeling, fast and slow changes, structure and function, tracking energy flows through systems, cause and effect

2nd Grade Team