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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