Welcome to Second Grade

Second Grade is sailing into the second nine weeks! Here’s what your child will learn and practice during this time:
 
Reading Workshop
• Questioning
• Visualizing
• Inferring
• Retelling a Sequence of Events into Beginning, Middle, and End
Writing Workshop
• Developing Drafts with Organization
• Editing
• Word Study
Math
• Counting Money
• Mental Addition
• Mental Subtraction
• Adding Two Digit Numbers
• Subtracting Two Digit Numbers
Science
• Characteristics of Living Things: Plants
• Characteristics of Living Things: Animals
• Changes in the Night Sky and Seasons
Social Studies
• Holidays: Veterans’ Day, History of Thanksgiving
• Historical Figures: Thurgood Marshall
• Identify and Locate State and National Capital and Major Texas Cities on a Map
• Functions of Three Branches of Government
• Customs, Symbols, and Celebrations Explored through Holiday, Family, and Cultural Traditions
• Citizen’s Responsibilities Such as Voting