Language Arts
Second grade students will receive instruction in reading, writing, and listening, speaking, and viewing. By the end of the 2nd grade, students will be able to:
- Read more fluently
- Read to learn
- Apply phonics to more complex word studies
- Read longer, more complex texts, including chapter books
- Begin editing and revising their work
- Use symbolic language to denote abstract concepts such as courage, freedom, time, seasons
- Manipulate language for specific contexts
- Expand sentences and form new sentence structures with appropriate punctuation
- Engage in a variety of language and literary activities involving reading, writing, speaking, and listening
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Mathematics
All students will be actively engaged in developing mathematical understandings in real and relevant contexts. By the end of the 2nd grade, students will be able to:
- Understand place value and number relationships in addition and subtraction
- Understand the relationship between multiplication and addition, and use simple concepts of multiplication
- understand and compare common fractions with small denominators
- Represent problem-solving situations using mathematical expressions, including =, <, and >
- describe and classify shapes by recognizing their geometric attributes
- Measure length with appropriate units
- Tell time to the nearest 5 minutes and identify time relationships
- Count back change, and use decimal notation and dollar and cent symbols
- Pose questions and collect, analyze, and interpret data using simple tables, picture and bar graphs, and Venn diagrams
- Solve problems using strategies such as look for a pattern and guess & check
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Science
Second grade students will use inquiry to focus on questions about the world around them, including questions related to earth science, physical science, and life science. By the end of the 2nd grade, students will be able to:
- Raise questions about the world around them and seek answers through observation and exploration
- Recognize attributes of sun, moon, and stars
- Identify and describe energy
- Demonstrate changes in speed and direction using pushes and pulls
- Locate sources of heat and light energy
- Form ideas about natural and manipulated changes such as changes in the earth's surface and changes in the attributes of materials
- Investigate life cycles of plants, animals, and fungi
- Observe seasonal changes of trees
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Social Studies
Second grade students important historical figures in Georgia, as well as the Creek and Cherokee cultures in Georgia. In addition, 2nd graders will begin to examine the basic concept of government and continue to acquire basic economic concepts. By the end of the 2nd grade, students will be able to:
- Identify and describe the lives of significant figures in Georgia history and show how these figures exhibit positive traits of citizenship
- Describe the Georgia Creek and Cherokee cultures
- Locate and describe the major topographical features of Georgia
- Describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with historical figures in Georgia and with the Creek and Cherokee people
- Define the concept of government, identify the roles of specific elected officials, and identify specific government buildings
- Relate the concepts of opportunity costs and allocation of goods and services to prior understanding of economics
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Assessment
- Throughout the year, classroom teachers will assess each student's growth and progress toward achievement of the learning goals specified in the state curriculum (GPS or QCC if GPS has not been implemented).
- These classroom assessments will be used to guide instruction in order to provide every child with the opportunity to learn and to succeed.
- Students will be made aware of the performance expectations for 2nd grade and will acquire self-monitoring and self-assessing skills to help them maximize their achievement.
- In the spring, Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) in Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies will be administered to 2th graders in order to provide a standardized measure of student learning.
- Beginning in the year the Georgia Performance Standards are implemented for a content area, the CRCT will directly align with those GPS.
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