Mrs. Jo-Ann Howard

About Second Grade

Your child will be learning:

   Reading:

• Self-Selecting books on own level
• Strategies for decoding unknown words
• Reading is Thinking strategies (Predicting, Visualizing,

• Story Elements (Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution)
• Personal and critical response to literature through

• Author's Studies:  Cynthia Rylant, Leo Lionni, Chris Van Alsburg,

• Genre Studies (Biographies, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction)

Writing

• Capitalization and Punctuation
• Steps in the Writing Process
• Domains of Writing:  Focus, Content, Organization, Style,

• Leads and Endings
• Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives)
• Four Square Writing
• Narrative, Informative, and Persuasive Writing Genres

Math

• Addition and Subtraction Strategies
• Problem Solving
• Place Value
• Money
• Two-Digit Addition and Subtraction with and without Regrouping
• Time
• Fractions and Geometry Concepts
• Measurement

Social Studies

• Caring Communities-Lessons on Acceptance of Others
• Being a Good Citizen
• Government
• Living in Communities
• Types of Communities
• Map Skills

Science

• Plants
• Animals
• Fossils
• Matter
• Sound, Heat, Light
• Force, Magnets, Electricity
• Earth, Weather, Planets
• Care of the Body (Susan Byrnes Health Center Trips)

     Technology

• Skype
• Photo Story
• Audacity
• PowerPoint
• Paint
• Publisher
• Inspiration

  Field Trips

• Visits to the Susan Byrnes Health Education Center
• Performing Arts Presentation at the Strand Theater
• Second Grade Annual Field Trip