Second Grade

Welcome to Second Grade at Brandon Academy.  This class continues to enhance the skills covered in the areas of reading, math, writing/spelling, science, and social studies.  In addition to these core subjects, students take music, art, computer and physical education. Please see below for more information about each core subject

Reading - Students in 2nd grade reading continue to develop their fluency skills and reading strategies to independently comprehend age-appropriate reading materials.

• Students are able to identify important ideas, sequence events in a story, and make predictions
• Students can create summaries based on what they have read, with help
• Students should be reading beginning chapter books
• Students can read grade level text with accuracy and appropriate pace

• Students continue to build on comprehension skills and are beginning to apply those skills to independent reading
• Students are able to draw conclusions from reading material. (Synthesizing and summarizing fiction and non-fiction text)

• Students can apply reading comprehension skills in student led reading group
• Identifying and defining important vocabulary words
• Finding main ideas and supporting details
• Making connections to their selves, the world and other texts
• Student can read chapter books  above grade level with appropriate pace, accuracy and expression.

Language Arts - Students will experience a variety of styles of writing and further develop their writing pieces by focusing on adding more details.

• Students are able to follow the steps of the writing process, including planning, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.
• Students can write 5-6 sentences on topic.
• Students are able to uses correct capitalization, punctuation and conventional spelling in various forms of writing

• Students are able to develop a beginning, middle and end in a writing piece.
• Students can add more elaborate details in their writing.
• Students begin to learn cursive writing

• Writing becomes more descriptive and complex.
• Students are able to write 3 or more paragraphs on topic.

Math - Students in 2nd grade math will develop a strong multiplication foundation, and continue to develop number sense, including place value to the hundred thousands, and build on addition and subtraction skills.  Second grade students work a grade level ahead in a 3rd grade math book.

• Add and subtract one and two digit numbers, with regrouping
• Add three digit numbers, with regrouping
• Tell time to the hour and half hour
• Count money using pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, and dollars
• Understand place value, including ones, tens and hundreds place
• Can read and interpret bar graphs, pictographs, and tally charts

• Subtract three digit numbers, with regrouping
• Tell time to the minute
• Graphs- bar, pictograph, line plot and tally chart
• Place value to hundred-thousands
• Understands how to use repeated addition to multiply

• Can explain verbally how to solve problems
• Can do single digit multiplication
• Understand division by separating objects into equal groups
• Begin to understand multiple- digit multiplication

Social Studies - Students explore concepts of culture and community in 2nd grade social studies.

• Communities and Maps
• Government
• Native Americans, Columbus and Pilgrims
• Holidays around the World (focus on Christmas and Kwanzaa)
• States and Capitals
• Influential People

Science - In 2nd grade science, students will explore a variety of topics through experiments, discussion, field trips and projects.

• Pollution and Weather
• Plants and Animals
• Sounds and Magnets
• Dinosaurs
• Ocean Life