Second Grade

While in Art, your student will be learning these standards in our classrooms:

• Develop art skills using a variety of media such as drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, mixed media, or textile/fiberwork
• Develop an awareness and appreciation of many artists and cultures from historical and aesthetic perspectives
• Distinguish between man-made and natural lines, shapes, and textures
• Explore how a pattern is created by repetition of shapes
• Explore light and dark colors and uses them in their own artwork
• Recognize and use overlapping shapes to show depth in an art production

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:

• Express and support their ideas through the writing process for a variety of purposes
• Independently read and comprehend literature and informational text at grade level
• Apply strategies to read with accuracy and expression at grade level.
• Know and apply grade level phonics and word recognition skills

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Respect and understand personal safety, peers safety, and classroom safety
• Understand growth and development
• Understand and practice disease control and prevention
• Practice Interpersonal skills

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Use flexible thinking to demonstrate numbers
• Demonstrate and understand of the various representations of numbers
• Apply and explain strategies and skill to solve real-world problems and mathematical equations
• Accurately measure using various units and tools
• Create and interpret data

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Apply reading skills to meet individual needs
• Select and use appropriate technology for educational and personal goals
• Analyze information in electronic and print media
• Use a variety of productivity tools to communicate
• Follow a systemic research process
• Recognize ethical practice in a global society

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Sing a variety of songs tunefully
• Read and notate music
• Sing and read do-re-mi-so-la patterns
• Echo/read/perform rhythm patterns using whole, half, quarter, eighth notes and rests
• Improvise, create, perform, and listen to music
• Begin part work
• Value and appreciate music
• Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Know the benefits of physical activity
• Contribute to a team effort
• Play by the rules
• Demonstrate locomotor movements: start, stop, walk, run, hop, jump, skip, gallop
• Demonstrate manipulation skills: catch, throw, pass, shoot, striking
• Move in various directions: forward, backward, sideways
• Move at varying speeds: slow, fast, increasing,decreasing
• Develop a positive self-image and attitude
• Practice good sportsmanship in success and failure
• Listen and follow directions

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics:

• Nature of Science and Engineering
• Sound
• Rocks
• Life Cycles

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics:

• Citizenship: Rights, Rules, Constitution and Voting
• Economics: Goal Setting, Needs and Wants, and Resources
• Geography: Maps and Globes
• History: Calendars,Timelines and Native Americans in Minnesota
• The US Constitution: Three Branches of Government Established by the Constitution