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Our
Second Grader will be immersed
in the reading skills
that will propel our students as a learner .Phonics
storybooks , appealing anthologies, and a critical
thinking book enhance our
studentsf
education.
Our
children will begin to express ideas in original
compositions.
With
the Calvert Math series, our studentfs confidence
will grow, along with the ability to think
mathematically.
New
Technology lessons focus on touch typing,
spreadsheets, using e-mail and the Internet, visual
mapping, and database skills.
Science,
history read-aloud stories, map and globe skills,
and art add to a well-rounded curriculum.
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What
Our Children Will Learn...
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Technology Application
lessons, activities, and online
interactive learning tool integrated
with curriculum: keyboarding; introduction
to touch typing; word processing basics;
introduction to spreadsheets; using e-mail
and the Internet; beginning database
skills; visual mapping. Internet
activities integrated with Reading and
Science texts
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Reading
Reviewing
word analysis techniques, long vowels,
digraphs, consonant clusters, vowel pairs,
blends, and r-controlled vowels;
developing comprehension skills; building
strategies for comparing, contrasting,
predicting, inferring, and drawing
conclusions; identifying cause and effect;
summarizing; recognizing topics, main
ideas, details; reading appealing
anthologies, phonics library book of
stories; developing critical thinking
skills
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Writing/Composition
Practicing
Calvert Script as reinforcement of learning
to read; writing dictated words and
sentences; writing compositions; practicing
spelling and vocabulary; learning rules of
punctuation
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Mathematics
Featuring
Calvert Math. Adding and subtracting 2- and
3-digit numbers; money; patterns in
addition, subtraction; measuring weight,
capacity, temperature; perimeter, area,
volume readiness; problem-solving
strategies; telling time in 5-minute
increments; 2- and 3-dimensional geometric
figures; fractions, sets, probability;
introducing multiplication and division
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Science
Developing
natural curiosity; questioning,
investigating, experimenting; studying
changes in animals, plants, Earth,
environment; sound; light; measuring; human
growth; health; heat, air, weather; Earth
and the Sun; forces; machines
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History
Exploring
36 original read-aloud stories; biographies
of well-known explorers, pioneers,
inventors, and political figures; accounts
of famous events (Paul Reverefs ride, fall
of the Berlin Wall); activities included
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Geography
Understanding
the five themes of geography; studying land
and water features; cardinal directions;
maps, symbols, and map keys; compass rose;
globes; continents; oceans; relative and
exact locations; boundaries; inset maps;
regions
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Art
Developing
new skills in drawing; studying famous
paintings
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Calvert
Writer