Second Grade Expectations
Upon entering second grade students should be able to:
Writing:
- Write on loose-leaf paper
- Write the Ogden School Heading
- Know basic sentence format (begins with a capital letter, ends with a punctuation mark)
- Know types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative
- Distinguish vowels from consonant letters
- Know the writing process
- Be able to write one paragraph
- Alphabetize words (by one letter)
- Use a glossary
Reading:
- Know how to use decoding strategies and context clues to sound out words and develope word knowledge
- Exposure to chapter books or beginning chapter books (depending on reading level)
- Recognize base words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Distinguish fiction from non-fiction
- Rhyming schemas
Math:
- Be familiar with the hundreds chart
- Know how to use a number line
- Recognize odd and even numbers
- Shape patterns
- Count by twos, fives, and tens
- Counting back and forward on a number line
- Read charts and graphs
- Addition and subtraction facts to 12
- Use a method system to solve story problems
- Know the value of coins, count an amount of money
- Tell time to the hour and half hour
- Identify shapes two vs. three dimensional
- Read a calendar
- Use a calculator
- Measure in inches and centimeters
Science:
- Living vs. nonliving things
- Forms of matter
- Identify parts of the human body
- Solar System (names of other planets besides Earth)
- The Seasons
Social Studies:
- Know their phone number and home address
- Identify Illinois on a map
- Know the names of leaders (president, mayor, governor)
- Name the seven continents
Technology:
- Use calculators
- Know the parts of a computer: mouse, screen keyboard….
- What can a computer be used for
- How to access the Internet
Other Skills:
- Raise the hand to ask a question
- Be familiar with words like: in, out, over, beneath, under, left, right, etc…
- Hallway and bathroom etiquette