Reading:

• Self-selecting books on own level
• Strategies for decoding unknown words
• Reading is Thinking Strategies (Predicting, Visualizing, Connecting, Clarifying, Summarizing, Author's Message)
• Story Elements (Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution)
• Personal and critical response to literature through discussion and writing
• Favorite 2nd Grade Authors:  Tomie dePaola, Leo Leonni, Chris Van Allsburg, Gail Gibbons, and Cynthia Rylant
• Chapter Book Read Alouds

Writing:

• Grammar and Handwriting  
     appropriate capital letter usage, types of punctuation and appropriate usage, complete sentences, nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, syllables, plurals, root words, prefixes and suffixes, contractions, compound words, homophones
•  Steps in the writing process
•  Domains of writing: Focus, Content, Organization, Style, and Conventions
• Types of Writing
       Small Moments, Using Authors as Mentors for our own writing, Many Moment stories, Realistic Fiction, Informational Writing, Letter Writing, Persuasive Pieces, Non-fiction, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, and Poetry

 Math:

•    Rocket Math to master our basic addition and subtraction facts
•    Addition and subtraction strategies
•    Problem solving and word problems
•    Place value (ones, tens, and hundreds)
•    Money (identifying coins and counting sets of money to 99 cents)
•    Two-digit Addition and Subtraction with regrouping
•    Telling time to the 5 minutes
•     Fractions
•     Geometry (two and three-dimensional shapes, symmetry, congurency, slides, flips, and turns)
•      Probabliity

 Social Studies:

•   Caring Community-Lessons on acceptance of others
•    Being a good citizen
•    Government
•    Living in communities
•    Types of communities 
•    Landforms 
•    Map skills

Science:

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

 Technology:

• Skype
• Photo Story
• Audacity
• Paint

Field Trips:

• North Museum in Lancaster
• Visits to the Susan Byrnes Health Center in October and March.