Grade 2

List of 9 items.

• Art

  Collage, Drawing, Installation, Painting, Sculpting (clay), Video

  
  

  Introduction to sketchbook

  LEARNING GOALS FOR ART:

  • Study classical and contemporary artists
  • Demonstrate observational skills (drawing and recording from real life)
  • Learn when and how to use different media for different projects
  • Begin to plan art projects by sketching first
  • Draw from imagination and observation
  • Explore how to use shadow to create a 3-D image
  • Develop patience and reverence for material and subject matter

   

• Health and Wellness

  BODY HEALTH
  

  • Make colorful choices at lunch and try something new
  • Manage and understand the importance of self-care routines such as loose teeth/lost tooth, hand washing, and bathing
  • Understand the importance of movement

  
  SOCIAL HEALTH
  

  • Develop the 12 Toolbox Project Tools
  • Develop language for creating positive friendships and healthy conflict resolution
  • Develop self-advocacy skills such as asking for help and requesting personal space

  
  EMOTIONAL HEALTH
  

  • Develop the concept of personal Identity
  • Name and share feelings
  • Name and understand values of the Hamlin Creed
  • Develop skills to manage uncomfortable feelings

• Language Arts

  CORE RESOURCES:

  Teachers College Reading & Writing Project by Lucy Calkins
  Unitsof Study for Primary Writing by Lucy Calkins
  GuidedReading by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
  Variety of spelling resources

  Developmentally appropriate literature

  WilsonFundations™

  LEARNING GOALS FOR READING:

  • Read a variety of genres
  • Build reading stamina
  • Build and develop vocabulary
  • Choose independent reading level books
  • Develop and strengthen fluency
  • Develop comprehension skills
  • Make connections
  • Develop strategies for monitoring for meaning
  • Notate thoughts and feelings to prove/show evidence of one’s thinking
  • Develop envisioning skills while reading (think about five senses when creating a mind picture)
  • Analyze characters and their traits
  • Participate in book conversations and class discussions based on teacher read aloud texts
  • Strengthen understanding of story elements (e.g., plot, characters, setting)
  • Explore elements of non-fiction (table of contents, glossary, index, captions)
  • Use a storyteller’s voice while reading (attention to punctuation, pacing, expression, articulation)
  • Hone decoding skills (e.g., context, phonics, syntax, patterns)

  LEARNING GOALS FOR WRITING:

  FORMS OF WRITING: Fiction; Non-Fiction; Personal Narratives; Poetry; Writer’s Notebooks

  • Use writing process: plan; rough draft; revise; self-edit; teacher-edit; publish
  • Learn to use writer’s notebook to collect thoughts and ideas
  • Write from own experiences
  • Learn to be a reflective writer
  • Focus and organize ideas to create a vignette
  • Construct a personal narrative
  • Incorporate detail, interesting language, dialogue, main idea, etc. into writing
  • Explore various elements of poetry (e.g., rhythm/music, word choice)
  • Write a variety of poems
  • Explore various elements of non-fiction and create non-fiction pieces
  • Write in complete sentences
  • Apply conventions of spelling, mechanics, and grammar

  LEARNING GOALS FOR HANDWRITING:

  CORE RESOURCE: Zaner-Bloser Handwriting, Zaner-Bloser, Inc.

  • Write in manuscript throughout the year
  • Learn and practice lower case cursive alphabet

  LEARNING GOALS FOR LISTENING AND SPEAKING:

  • Follow multi-step directions
  • Actively participate in class discussions
  • Speak clearly and with confidence
  • Ask relevant questions
  • Respond to questions with a complete thought
  • Explain thinking
  • Deliver oral presentations

• Library & Information Literacy

  CORE RESOURCES:
  Standards for the 21st century Learner AASL
  Adaptation of California School Library Recommended Library Skills
  
  

  • Begin to understand simple keyword search in the online catalog to locate books
  • Begin to understand Dewey Decimal classification
  • Define biography books
  • Identify parts of books
  • Recongize and describe the characteristics of award-winning books
  • Recognize specific genres

  
  
  ¥    Begin to understand Dewey Decimal classification
  ¥    Define biography books
  ¥    Identify parts of books
  ¥    Recognize and describe the characteristics of award-winning books
  ¥    Recognize specific genres
  
  

• Music

  Philosophy of Zoltán Kodály and Carl Orff

  LEARNING GOALS FOR MUSIC:

  • Gain an appreciation of classical music, world music, and composers through Composition of the Week (COW) program
  • Discover and explore different uses of the voice
  • Understand how voice and body can be a musical instrument
  • Read and write more challenging musical notation (flag eighth notes, crooked eighth notes, whole notes, dotted half-notes)
  • Read two-part music on the staff
  • Learn more complex rhythmic and melodic skills
  • Continue to develop attentive listening skills
  • Continue to develop aural memory
  • Understand and use pentatonic scale (do, re, mi, so, la)
  • Engage in two- and three-part singing through rounds, canons, partner singing, and soprano and alto parts
  • Begin to understand relationship of absolutes (ABCDEFG) in conjunction with solfège
  • Play percussion and Orff instruments
  • Understand own singing voice and its relationship to group
  • Develop performance practice skills (e.g., walking on stage, singing with expressive faces, following a conductor)

• Physical Education

  LEARNINGGOALS FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

  • Demonstrate sportsmanship
  • Develop locomotor skills (e.g., running, hopping, sliding)
  • Develop non-locomotor skills (e.g., bending, twisting, stretching)
  • Develop body awareness
  • Develop hand/eye coordination
  • Develop foot/eye coordination
  • Develop balance
  • Engage in fitness activities
  • Develop ball skill
  • Participate in cooperative games
  • Develop skills for sports

• Science and Engineering/Computer Science

  THEME: Metamorphosis
  
  UNITS:
  Simple Machines
  Life Cycles
  Rock Cycles
  Nutrition
  
  LEARNING GOALS FOR SCIENCE:
  

  • Practice reading scientific literature
  • Begin to understand mistakes as part of process
  • Perform 3-step Scientific Method

  -    Guess, test, tell

  • Practice Scientific Method

  -    ORHECK (observation, research, question, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, knowledge)

  • Begin to connect experiments and content
  • Ask scientific questions
  • Sort scientific questions in curiosity box and understand the difference between “what?” and “why?” questions
  • Discuss “what happened” in experiments and begin to theorize why
  • Use and apply technology
  • Practice steps of Engineering Design Process

  -    Identify challenge, brainstorm, design, build, test, evaluate, redesign, share solution

  • Begin to understand concept of “trial and error”

  TECHNOLOGY
  
  EQUIPMENT TYPICALLY USED: 1:1 iPads; camcorders; desktops; digital cameras; document cameras; headphones; iPods; USB microphones
  
  APPLICATIONS TYPICALLY USED: Animation software; graphics editing software; Internet browsers; Microsoft® Office Suite; screencasting applications; book publishing applications; IXL; Dreambox; RAZ Kids
  
  CORE RESOURCES: LEGO® WeDo, LEGO® Education; Hopscotch, Hopscotch Technologies
  
  LEARNING GOALS FOR PROGRAMMING
  

  • Motion (move, rotate/turn, change x,y, repeat)
  • Lines (leave a trail, set line width, set line color, clear)
  • Looks (scale by, change costume)
  • Controls (repeat)
  • Develop understanding of positive/negative numbers, x,y coordinates

  
  LEARNING GOALS FOR ROBOTICS
  

  • Motors, displays, inputs, sensors
  • Develop understanding of simple machines (gears, pulleys, levers), time, measurement

  MATHEMATICS
  
  CORE RESOURCE: Bridges in Mathematics Second Edition, Math Learning Center
  Context for Learning Mathematics, Catherine Twomey Fosnot
  
  LEARNING GOALS FOR MATHEMATICS:
  
  NUMBER SENSE AND OPERATIONS:
  

  • Develop understanding of place value to 1,000
  • Count, read, write, and compare numbers to 1,000
  • Skip count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
  • Understand odd and even numbers
  • Use estimation strategies
  • Understand the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction
  • Know addition facts to 20 and subtraction facts from 10
  • Add and subtract with and without regrouping for two-digit numbers
  • Explore multiplication
  • Recognize and name common fractions
  • Explore fractions as parts of a whole and parts of a group
  • Solve addition and subtraction word problems
  • Use visual models and manipulatives to develop conceptual understanding of math concepts

  MONEY
  

  • Know value of coins to $1.00
  • Know equivalents and make change
  • Solve problems using combinations of coins and bills

  ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS
  

  • Recognize place value patterns on number grid
  • Understand, create, and predict patterns
  • Find missing addends

  GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT
  

  • Identify, describe, classify, and sort two and three dimensional shapes
  • Explore symmetry and construct symmetrical designs
  • Solve spatial problems (2-D and 3-D problems, pattern block problems, tangram puzzles, etc.)
  • Measure length, weight, capacity, area, and perimeter in non-standard and standard units
  • Tell time to the minute
  • Know relationships of time (e.g., minutes in an hour, days in a month)

  STATISTICS, DATA ANALYSIS, AND PROBABILITY
  

  • Collect, represent, and organize data
  • Interpret graphs

  PROBLEM SOLVING
  

  • Develop and use a range of effective problem solving strategies
  • Explain problem solving method orally and in writing
  • Develop mental math strategies

• Social Studies

  UNIT:

  What is a city?
  Intro to Geography & Maps
  San Francisco: past and present
  Immigration
  City Planning 
  
  

  LEARNING GOALS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES:

  • Learn about components of a city
  • Learn about the features, advantages, and disadvantages of urban, rural, and suburban communities.
  • Learn about the needs and wants of cities
  • Learn about the roles and responsibilities within cities
  • Learn the cardinal directions and create compass roses
  • Learn about map symbols, legends, and coordinates
  • Develop and use map skills and make own maps
  • Use maps to navigate San Francisco
  • Learn to identify geographic features and locate them on a physical map.
  • Learn about the cultures in San Francisco
  • Learn about the impact various groups have had on San Francisco’s history and development
  • Explore major events in San Francisco’s history and how they have impacted what San Francisco is today (Earthquakes, Fire)
  • Learn about various important locations and landmarks in San Francisco
  • Begin exploring the links between past and present with a study of San Francisco and how it has changed over time
  • Learn about immigration
  • Study the impact of immigration on San Francisco (Gold Rush, Angel Island) 

• World Language: Spanish

  CULTURAL CONTENT: Spanish Across the Globe

  LEARNING GOALS FOR SPANISH:

  • Geography
  • Traditions
  • Develop global awareness
  • Develop an “ear” for the language
  • Strengthen listening comprehension
  • Develop speaking skills
  • Develop sound recognition and pronunciation skills
  • Build and develop vocabulary
  • Develop grammar skills
  • Practice reading and writing