In 2nd Grade we will work hard, respect others and ourselves and celebrate differences. We will THINK, learn, and have fun! We WILL Walk the Talk! We ARE Leaders!

Transitional Readers:

• Build fluency, develop comprehension & decoding skills
• Demonstrate reading strategies (making connections, predicting, visualizing, questioning, drawing inferences, determining importance, and synthesizing)
• Use reference materials
• Genres
• Graphic Organizers

• Narrative (stories – beginning/middle/end), expository, descriptive, & letters
• 6 Traits
• Mind Maps

• Basic Addition & Subtraction
• Ordinal #s
• Addition & Subtraction with/without regrouping/trading or borrowing
• Place Value, comparing #s, missing addends
• Problem solving
• Rounding to the nearest 10
• Money & time
• Measurement (length, weight, liquid volume, temperature)
• Fractions & probability

• Solids, Liquids, & Gases / Phase Changes / Mass & Volume
• Animal & Plant Life Cycles / Interdependency of living things
• Weather & Seasonal changes
• Plants as natural resources