In Grade Two, students will. . .

RELIGION:

THE CATHOLIC FAITH

· Proclaim the goodness of God

· Know that God loves us and cares for us

· Know that all people and creation deserve respect

· Develop a loving relationship with God

· Relate life experiences to the Good News

· Know that we are responsible for our choices and the consequences

· Define sin as a selfish and unloving choice

· Understand that our conscience helps us to know right from wrong

· Know what a Sacrament is and be able to name the seven Sacraments

· Understand the essentials of the Sacrament of Reconciliation

· Recite an Act of Contrition

· Know that bread and wine at Mass becomes the Body and Blood of Jesus

· Prepare to receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist for the first time

· Know that the Bible is the word of God speaking to us today

· Learn that Mary is the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too

Text: Christ Our Life: God Cares for Us (Loyola Press)

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading

· Silent and oral reading with emphasis on phonics, word attack, context clues and sight words.

· Learn to recognize important details and sequence events in a story

· Predicting outcomes

· Drawing conclusions

· Decoding skills

· Comprehension

· Topic, main idea, details

· Time sequence

· Cause and effect

· Predict outcome

· Fact and opinion

· Character, setting, plot

· Elements of grammar

Listening and Speaking

· Develop listening and speaking skills

· Variety of listening experiences are presented: literature, folk tales, children’s books

Text: (Scott Foresman)

Grammar

· Learn to use capitalization and punctuation correctly

· Learn parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and how to use them

· Learn to write simple compositions

Writing:

· Pre-writing, brain storming

· Revising, proofreading

· Final Draft

· Narrative, descriptive, persuasive paragraphs

· Parts of a letter

Text: (Houghton Mifflin)

Phonics

· Consonant and vowel sounds, blends, digraphs, diphthongs

· Prefixes, suffixes, plurals

· Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

Text: (Modern Curriculum Press)

MATH

· Know addition and subtraction facts through 18

· Learn place value of ones, tens, hundreds

· Telling time to 5 minute intervals

· Counting money

· Naming fractional parts

· Learn to read, interpret and make tables and graphs

· Place value to 1,000

· Two and three digit addition and subtraction with regrouping

· Learn problem solving strategies

· Building number sense: Place value and counting

Text: (Silver Burdett Ginn)

SCIENCE

· Plants: parts and cycles

· What plants need to grow

· How organisms live together

· Groups of organisms

· Different habitats in which animals live

· Properties of matter and how it can change

· Describe source, movement, and measurement of heat and how heat can change

· Learn about seasonal and weather changes

Text: (Scott Foresman)

SOCIAL STUDIES

· Learn to read maps and globes, to interpret basic symbols and to tell direction

· Learn about tradition, celebrations, history, and transportation

· Learn about different communities

Text: (Silver Burdett Ginn)

ART

· Develop visual awareness through concepts of line, shape

· Identify secondary colors

· Regular and irregular pattern

· Asymmetrical forms are introduced

· Guidelines for letters, balanced designs, simple clay work

MUSIC

· Sing by rote with awareness of notes

· Creatively use simple forms

· Explore rhythm

· Move to music

· Appreciation of various styles of music

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

· Primary emphasis is on the motor development of each student

· Locomotor activities include movement,

· Rhythmic activities,

· Simple games

· Relays, stunts

· Conditioning exercises

TECHNOLOGY BENCHMARKS

· Use input devices: Mouse, Keyboard

· Use output devices: Monitor, Printer

· Use appropriate terminology

· Use Home Hand row position

· Introduce use of proper fingers

· Type Text, choose Graphic, then Edit and Print

St. Anthony School Curriculum Guide

Developed, 2003