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Elementary Academics Second Grade
Bible:
Biblical Choices, Eastside Christian Press
- Describe Gods plan to rescue the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
- Relate Egypt and the Israelites to sin in their own lives
- List the miracles that were part of the Exodus
- Understand the importance of the 10 Commandments that their application in a Christians daily life
- Explain the significance of the Ark of the Covenant
- Describe the reasons for the 40 years in the wilderness
- Recognize the importance of people such as Moses, Aaron, Joshua
- Apply the Greatest Commandment to their lives
- Explore the biblical models of worship, prayer, generosity, service, forgiveness
- Describe the role of a missionary
- Explore the concept of Christian unity
Reading:
Reading for Christian Schools 2, Bob Jones University Press
Reading and Decoding Skills - Students will use using phonics, syllabication, and word parts to decode words up to three syllables. They apply this knowledge to achieve fluent oral and silent reading.
- Recognize and use knowledge of spelling patterns (e.g., diphthongs, special vowel spellings) when reading.
- Apply knowledge of basic syllabication rules when reading (e.g., vowel-consonant-vowel = su/ per; vowel-consonant/consonant-vowel = sup/ per).
- Recognize common abbreviations (e.g., Jan., Sun., Mr., St.).
- Identify and correctly use regular plurals (e.g., -s, -es, -ies) and irregular plurals (e.g., fly/ flies, wife/ wives).
- Read aloud fluently and accurately and with appropriate intonation and expression.
- Understand and explain common antonyms and synonyms.
- Use knowledge of individual words in unknown compound words to predict meaning.
- Know the meaning of simple prefixes and suffixes (e.g., over-, un-, -ing, -ly).
- Identify simple multiple-meaning words.
Reading Comprehension - Students will read and understand a wide variety of grade-level-appropriate material. The Bob Jones Second Grade curriculum includes narrative, poetry and nonfiction text.
- Use titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings to locate information in text.
- Restate facts and details in the text to clarify and organize ideas.
- Determine the main idea or purpose of text.
- Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a text.
- Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs.
- Follow two-step written instructions.
Literary Response and Analysis
- Recognize use of figurative language
- Compare and contrast plots, settings, and characters presented by different authors.
- Identify the use of rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration in poetry.
Spelling:
Spelling and Poetry 2, A Beka
- Correctly spell: basic short-vowel, long-vowel, r-controlled, consonant-blend patterns and frequently used, irregular words (e.g., was, were, says, said, what, why).
- Correctly add simple suffixed to short and long vowel words
Writing:
Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea.
- Group related ideas and maintain a consistent focus.
- Create readable documents with legible handwriting.
- Understand the purposes of various reference materials (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus).
- Revise drafts to improve mechanics, spelling, word choice and descriptive detail.
- Write brief narratives based on their experiences
- Write a friendly letter complete with the date, salutation, body, closing, and signature.
English:
English for Christian Schools 2, Bob Jones
- Distinguish between complete and incomplete sentences.
- Recognize and use the correct word order in written sentences.
- Identify and correctly use parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives in writing and speaking.
- Use commas in greeting and closure of a letter and with dates and items in a series.
- Use quotation marks correctly.
- Capitalize all proper nouns, words at the beginning of sentences and greetings, months and days of the week, and titles and initials of people.
Penmanship:
Writing with Phonics, A Beka
- Beginning in January, learn the formations of all lowercase and capital cursive letters
- Join cursive letters to make correct and legible simple words
Mathematics:
Excel Math, AnsMar Publishers
Number Sense
- Count, read, and write whole numbers to 1,000 and identify place value for each digit.
- Use words, models, and expanded forms (e.g., 45 = 4 tens + 5) for numbers to 1,000
- Order and compare whole numbers to 1,000 by using the symbols <, =, >.
- Understand and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., an opposite number sentence for 8 + 6 = 14 is 14 - 6 = 8) to solve problems
- Find the sum or difference of two whole numbers up to three digits long.
- Memorize addition and subtraction facts us to 10
- Use repeated addition, arrays, and counting by multiples to do multiplication.
- Use repeated subtraction, equal sharing, and forming equal groups with remainders to do division.
- Know the multiplication tables of 2s, 5s, and 10s (to "times 10")
- Recognize, name, and compare unit fractions from 1/10 to 1/2.
- Recognize fractions of a whole and parts of a group
- Solve problems using combinations of coins and bills.
- Know and use the decimal notation and the dollar and cent symbols for money.
- Recognize, describe, and extend patterns and determine a next term in linear patterns
Measurement and Geometry
- Measure the length of objects by iterating (repeating) a nonstandard or standard unit.
- Measure the length of an object to the nearest half inch and/ or centimeter.
- Tell time to the minute
- Determine the duration of intervals of time in hours (e.g., 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.).
- Describe and classify plane and solid geometric shapes
Social Studies:
Heritage Studies for Christian Schools 2, Bob Jones
American History
- Compare and contrast their daily lives with those of the American colonists.
- Describe the primary reasons for the founding of the American colonies.
- Identify the major historical figures in Europe at the time of the Revolution.
- Relate the French and Indian War to the events that began the Revolution.
- Order the main events leading up to the American Revolution.
- Recognize the differences between the American and the British views of the war.
- Discuss the importance of the following people: Daniel Boone, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Nathan Hale, King George III, Thomas Jefferson
Map Skills
- Locate specific locations on a simple letter-number grid system
- Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, compass rose, scale,
Economics
- Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including farmers, distributors, land and water resources.
- Understand the role and interdependence of buyers and sellers of goods and services.
- Compare and contrast a barter based system with a monetary system+
Science:
Science for Christian Schools 2, Bob Jones
Physical Sciences
- Identify the effects of these forces: gravity, friction, magnetism, mechanical force
- Predict movement based on changes in any of the four forces
- Understand relationship between light, shadows
Life Sciences
- Describe the functions of the skeleton and muscles
- Classify bones based on physical characteristics
- Match the motion, location and names of the types of joints
- Use scientific names for specific bones and muscles
Earth Sciences
- Define a fossil
- Describe the information that can be learned from fossils about the history of the earth
- Compare types of ocean, freshwater shorelines
Investigation and Experimentation
- Make predictions based on observed patterns.
- Compare/sort bjects according to two or more physical attributes (e. g., color, shape, texture, size, weight).
- Write or draw descriptions of a sequence of steps, events, and observations.
- Construct bar graphs to record data, using appropriately labeled axes
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