Grade 2 Curriculum
Guiding bright minds to the top.
Second grade students have an increasing attention span, meaning that they can learn more difficult concepts in one sitting and apply them to real life. They will learn advanced addition and subtraction, and work hard to become a fluent reader.
Goals for a Grade 2 Student
- Build a strong academic foundation and study routine
- Practice social skills by interacting with family members, teachers, and classmates
- Practice and apply new information taught at school and extracurriculars
English 2 Curriculum
• Read with basic comprehension and attention to punctuation
• Make predictions and connections using simple inferences
• Use knowledge to connect to stories and make meaning
• Understand literary elements, and poetic and figurative language
• Retell the main idea of a story and participate in group discussions
Make real life connections to numbers using personal life
Introduce visualization strategies with mathematical concepts to allow for realistic understanding
Familiarize student with mathematical vocabulary and visuals, such as graphs and charts
Challenge student to justify mathematical answers with explanations instead of numerical responses
Math 2 Curriculum
• Explore time, measurements, and identify coins
• Read and write numbers through the hundreds
• Measure using length, time and weight
• Collect data and use simple charts and graphs
• Draw and sketch geometric shapes
Make real life connections to numbers using personal life
Engage in problem solving stories that are connected to real-life
Introduce math vocabulary, such as more, less, and equal
Represent ideas in pictures and symbols, such as building blocks