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Language Arts
Second graders read a variety of literature including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The students are exposed to new vocabulary that relates to literature and content area study. Teachers use a wide variety of activities that foster reading for understanding. Teachers incorporate and build on comprehension strategies such as making connections to self, text and the world; visualizing; questioning and making inferences.
Writing
The second graders organize their fictional writing to include a beginning, middle, and end. They are encouraged to use their writing skills as they write across the curriculum. This will include correct application of capitalization rules and end punctuation for sentences. Students learn to apply spelling generalizations in their daily work.
Math
The second grade mathematics program includes: addition and subtraction strategies with regrouping, problem solving, patterns and numbers to 1000, money, time, measurement, geometry, fractions, probability, and the exploration of multiplication and division.
Science
The second grade science program includes: the classification of living and nonliving things, insects, animal groupings, food chains and webs. Insect and life cycles are a major hands-on unit of study. Students will also learn about environments with a special emphasis on the forest, desert and wetlands. Second graders also study force, motion, physics of toys, and simple machines.
Social Studies
The second grade social studies program includes topics in: citizenship, maps, Native Americans, economics, Old World explorers, ancient civilization of Mali, contemporary Mexico, and famous Americans.
For more information about the second grade curriculum, please check out the FCPS website: http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/OEIAS/grades/2.htm.
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