{"id":1035,"date":"2007-01-04T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T04:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2009-11-09T02:58:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T09:58:19","slug":"grade-2-curriculum-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Grade 2 Curriculum Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Social Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

* Holidays and festivals<\/span><\/p>\n

* Patriotic celebrations<\/span><\/p>\n

* Communities in other lands: past and present<\/span><\/p>\n

* Family and family history<\/span><\/p>\n

* Families around the world<\/span><\/p>\n

* Neighborhoods<\/span><\/p>\n

* Community services and helpers<\/span><\/p>\n

* Shelters, stores, and food<\/span><\/p>\n

* Citizenship and social responsibility<\/span><\/p>\n

* Interdependence of people<\/span><\/p>\n

* Basic geography: oceans, continents<\/span><\/p>\n

* Map skills <\/span><\/p>\n

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Science<\/span><\/p>\n

* Useful and harmful animals<\/span><\/p>\n

* Life cycle<\/span><\/p>\n

* Birds and insects in winter<\/span><\/p>\n

* Animal babies<\/span><\/p>\n

* Animal defense of themselves and their young<\/span><\/p>\n

* Plant and animal food<\/span><\/p>\n

* Dinosaurs and other extinct animals<\/span><\/p>\n

* Food chain<\/span><\/p>\n

* Plant reproduction and growth<\/span><\/p>\n

* Habitats and homes<\/span><\/p>\n

* Weather and its effects on earth <\/span><\/p>\n

* Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants<\/span><\/p>\n

* Climate<\/span><\/p>\n

* Water cycle<\/span><\/p>\n

* Air and atmosphere<\/span><\/p>\n

* Magnets and forces<\/span><\/p>\n

* Gravity<\/span><\/p>\n

* Earth and sky<\/span><\/p>\n

* Sun, moon, planets<\/span><\/p>\n

* Simple constellations<\/span><\/p>\n

* Exploring space<\/span><\/p>\n

* Scientific method and scientific inquiry <\/span><\/p>\n

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Language Arts<\/span><\/p>\n

* Reading silently for purpose<\/span><\/p>\n

* Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading<\/span><\/p>\n

* Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading<\/span><\/p>\n

* Story development: beginning, middle, end<\/span><\/p>\n

* Simple book reviews<\/span><\/p>\n

* Listening skills<\/span><\/p>\n

* Organizing ideas and impressions<\/span><\/p>\n

* Alphabetizing through second letter of a word<\/span><\/p>\n

* Using dictionary guide words<\/span><\/p>\n

* Vocabulary development <\/span><\/p>\n

* Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms<\/span><\/p>\n

* Methods of word attack<\/span><\/p>\n

* Ways to study spelling<\/span><\/p>\n

* Simple punctuation and capitalization<\/span><\/p>\n

* Refining manuscript handwriting<\/span><\/p>\n

* Writing independently in manuscript form<\/span><\/p>\n

* Brief and simple letters and journals<\/span><\/p>\n

* Narration, description, letters, poetry<\/span><\/p>\n

* Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index <\/span><\/p>\n

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Health and Safety<\/span><\/p>\n

* Personal cleanliness<\/span><\/p>\n

* Dental hygiene<\/span><\/p>\n

* Basic food groups <\/span><\/p>\n

* Communicable diseases<\/span><\/p>\n

* Preventive measures against disease<\/span><\/p>\n

* Neighborhood safety <\/span><\/p>\n

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Mathematics<\/span><\/p>\n

* Counting, reading, writing to 1,000<\/span><\/p>\n

* Counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 10’s<\/span><\/p>\n

* Ordinal numbers to 10<\/span><\/p>\n

* Zero as a place holder<\/span><\/p>\n

* Using sets and number facts<\/span><\/p>\n

* Addition and subtraction facts to 20<\/span><\/p>\n

* Basic multiplication and division facts<\/span><\/p>\n

* Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations<\/span><\/p>\n

* Multiplication properties of 0 and 1<\/span><\/p>\n

* Place value through 100’s <\/span><\/p>\n

* Fractions in daily life<\/span><\/p>\n

* Decimal numeration system<\/span><\/p>\n

* Basic concept of ratio<\/span><\/p>\n

* Geometry puzzles and activities<\/span><\/p>\n

* Estimation<\/span><\/p>\n

* Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape, temperature<\/span><\/p>\n

* Telling time and using the calendar<\/span><\/p>\n

* Handling money (coins)<\/span><\/p>\n

* Problem solving<\/span><\/p>\n

* Charts and graphs<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social Studies * Holidays and festivals * Patriotic celebrations * Communities in other lands: past and present * Family and family history * Families around the world * Neighborhoods * Community services and helpers * Shelters, stores, and food * Citizenship and social responsibility * Interdependence of people * Basic geography: oceans, continents * Map […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,13],"tags":[86,87,389,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}