Second Grade

SECOND GRADE

Curriculum Map

Our Place on the Planet

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Intro. PBIS/ Lifeskills
• Community Building
• Conflict Resolution

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Reading Assessment
• English Language Development (ELD)
• Set-up Guided Reading Groups
• Reading Buddies
• On Demand Writing Prompt#1

MATH

• Beginning of year assessment
• Envision Math – Topic 1- Understanding Addition and Subtraction
• Envision Math – Topic 2- Understanding Addition Strategies
• Envision Math Topic 3- Subtraction Strategies

Exploring the Earth

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Leveled Reading Groups
• Begin Writer’s Workshop
• Grammar: nouns, adjectives, verbs, capitalization, periods.

MATH

• Envision Math Topic 4-Working With Equal Groups
• Envision Math Topic 5-Place Value to 100
• Envision Math Topic 6-Mental Addition

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Unit 2 – The Land Around Us/Geography
• Unit 3 – Governing the People

SCIENCE

• FOSS: Pebbles, Sand/Silt
• Science-in-Action

ART

• Study Trip to the Cantor Arts Center – Stanford University

Comparing Today with Long Ago

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Story Elements
• Writer’s Workshop
• Grammar – commas, quotation marks, compound words, synonyms, antonyms

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Unit 1 - Families, Now and Long Ago
• Heritage Unit

MATH

• Envision Math Topic 7-Mental Subtraction
• Envision Math Topic 8-Adding Two-Digit Numbers
• Envision Math Topic 9-Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers

Caring about our Community

LANGUAGE ARTS

• On Demand Writing Prompt#2
• Non-Fiction reading and Informational writing
• Grammar – Homonyms, contractions, abbreviations
• Using Resources – Thesaurus, dictionary, atlas
• Read Around the Clock Pajama Day

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Biographies of “Proud Americans”

MATH

• Envision Math Topic 10-Place Value to 1,000
• Envision Math Topic 11-Three-Digit Addition and Subtraction
• Envision Math Topic 12-Geometry

Where Our Food Comes From

LANGUANGE ARTS

• Prefix, suffix, word analysis
• Writer’s Workshop Publishing
• Review of all concepts

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Unit 4 – Food Production and Consumption Long Ago and Today
• Study Trip to Heal Farm in Half Moon Bay
• Unit 2 – Communities
• Community Project
• Open House
• Unit 5 – People in the Marketplace

MATH

• Envision Math Topic 13-Counting Money
• Envision Math Topic 14-Money
• Envision Math Topic 15-Measuring Length

Growing in the Garden

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Continue to review all writing conventions
• Writer’s Workshop Publishing (con’t)
• Insect Reports
• Playing with Poetry with TheaterWorks

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Mapping
• MATH
• Envision Math Topic 16-Time, Graphs, and Data

SCIENCE

• FOSS: Balance and Motion
• FOSS: Plant lifecycle/School Garden
• FOSS: Insects
• Science-in-Action

END OF YEAR ASSESSMENTS

• District Narrative On Demand Writing Prompt#3
• End of year Reading Assessment
• End of Year Math Assessment