Second Grade Curriculum Overview

Language Arts

• Develop fluency in decoding words
• Develop a pool of known high frequency words
• Distinguish homonyms, antonyms, and synonyms
• Recognize compound words and possessive words
• Respond to text by predicting, analyzing characters, and sequencing
• Summarizing, recognizing context clues, and identifying cause and effect
• Participate in oral reading
• Write descriptive paragraphs
• Character descriptions
• Make comparisons and contrasts
• Revise and edit work for correct use of verbs, tenses, capital letters, and punctuation
• Give directions and descriptions, and make introductions
• Broaden vocabulary by listen to discussions
• Listen politely and use complete sentences in making relevant responses
• Participate in oral reading

Mathematics

• Basic number sense
• Graphing
• Addition and subtraction concepts
• Fact families, doubles plus one
• Number patterns, counting by 2's, 5's, 4's, 6's, and 10's
• Count and use money
• Time
• Two digit addition and subtraction with regrouping
• Place value to the thousands place
• Measurement including length, perimeter, area, temperature, weight, and capacity
• Geometric shapes
• Fractions
• Multiplication and division concepts
• Strategies for problem solving, analyzing, and decision-making
• Connect concrete with abstract

Science

• Plants (kinds and classification)
• Inside a seed, how seeds are scattered
• Parts of the plant, growth and change, and uses of plants
• Lifecycle of frogs and butterflies
• Habitats
• Food chains
• Fossils
• Matter
• Heat, sound, and light
• Force and magnets
• Electricity
• Earth science including erosion, physical features, and resources
• Conservation
• Weather and seasons
• Solar system
• Human body, health, and nutrition
• Read charts and graphs
• Learn about animals, plants, the human body, earth, and physical science
• Processing skills

Social Studies

• Map skills
• Good citizenship and thinking skills
• Family ties
• Calendar skills
• Transportation through time
• Earth as our home
• State, country, continents, and the oceans
• Goods and services
• Farm to Factory
• Trade and money
• Our government
• Time lines
• People and places in history

Islamic Studies

• Islamic Adab and Akhlaq
• Terminology of the Holy Quran
• Revelation of the Holy Quran
• Books of Allah (SWT)
• Angels mentioned in the Quran
• Iman
• Arkan of Islam
• Importance of the Masjid and Jumah
• Wudu and Salat
• Seerah of Rasulullah (SAW)
• Our Prophet's (SAW) morals and compassion
• Companions of the Prophet (SAW)
• Stories of the Prophets
• Islamic holidays

Arabic Level 1

• Learn how to read and write words and short phrases

Arabic Level 2

• Learn how to read paragraphs in Arabic and Surahs
• Write simple sentences
• Introduction to simple Arabic dialogue