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Catholic School • Livonia, Michigan
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Grade 2 Curriculum
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Religion
Curricular Goals
Students in 2nd Grade will:
Explore God's laws and our obedience to them through love
Seek forgiveness of sins through Jesus' sacrifice
Prepare for life in heaven by receiving Jesus in the Eucharist
Text and Materials
Jesus Our Life, Faith and Life series
(Ignatius Press)
Formed (Catholic streaming service)
Blessed Reconciliation videos
Blessed Communion videos
Ruah Woods Theology of the Body
Reading
Curricular Goals
Students in 2nd Grade will:
Foster daily opportunities to express and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas through writing
Develop strategies for phonics and decoding
Develop accurate and fluent word recognition
Build connections with new vocabulary words
Build skills and strategies to aid comprehension of fiction and nonfiction text
Generate enthusiasm and appreciation for reading
Text and Materials
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Epic!
Centers and games
BrainPop Jr.
Language
Curricular Goals
Students in 2nd Grade will:
Reinforce concepts of spelling
Reinforce correct letter formation
Develop knowledge of parts-of-speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Expand vocabulary
Build complex sentence structure, punctuation, and capitalization
Text and Materials
Wordsmith Level 2
Writing Our Catholic Faith
BrainPop Jr.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Centers and Games
Mathematics
Curricular Goals
Students in 2nd Grade will:
Extend addition and subtraction strategies to include two- and three-digit numbers
Develop place-value understanding to 1,000
Develop an understanding of more complex geometric shapes
Review and practice measurement of time and length
Develop an understanding of money concepts
Interpret data using a variety of graphs
Introduce the concepts of multiplication and division
Text and Materials
Sadlier Math
BrainPop
Jr.
Math Manipulatives/centers/games
Science
Curricular Goals
Students in 2nd Grade will:
Explore the inquiry process; analysis, communication, and reflection
Explore design principals in
A World In Motion
program
Employ observation using the 5 senses
Identify physical and chemical properties of matter and water
Investigate plant and animal life cycles
Observe weather
Utilize simple tools for data collection
Text and Materials
AIMS
A World In Motion; Engineering Inspired by Nature
Non-fiction texts
BrainPop Jr.
Social Studies
Curricular Goals
Students in 2nd Grade will:
Explore government and civics, and learn how we can help our communities
Focus on different types of communities and the natural resources that help communities thrive
Identify tools and resources that can help us learn about different times in history
Compare and contrast our lives today with those in the past
Develop an understanding of the flow of money in a community
Develop map skills and world geography, including continents, countries, and oceans
Text and Materials
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Little 2nd Grade Social Studies Thinkers
BrainPop Jr.
Non-Fiction texts
Epic!
Specials
Students is 2nd Grade are enrolled in the following specials classes.
Art
Computers
Music
Physical Education
Spanish
STEM
Events and Experiences
Sacraments
First Reconciliation
First Holy Eucharist
Field Trips
Henry Ford Museum
Real Life Farm Field Trip
Featured Projects
Letters to Veterans
Participation in May Crowning
AWIM Building Helicopters and Parachutes Project
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