Second Grade Scope and Sequence

Grade 2 Curriculum Guide 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 skills Science Useful and harmful animals * Life cycle * Birds and insects in winter * Animal babies * Animal defense of themselves and their young * Plant and animal food * Dinosaurs and other extinct animals * Food chain * Plant reproduction and growth * Habitats and homes * Weather and its effects on earth * Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants * Climate * Water cycle * Air and atmosphere * Magnets and forces * Gravity * Earth and sky * Sun, moon, planets * Simple constellations * Exploring space * Scientific method and scientific inquiry Language Arts * Reading silently for purpose * Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading * Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading * Story development: beginning, middle, end * Simple book reviews * Listening skills * Organizing ideas and impressions * Alphabetizing through second letter of a word * Using dictionary guide words * Vocabulary development * Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms * Methods of word attack * Ways to study spelling * Simple punctuation and capitalization * Refining manuscript handwriting * Writing independently in manuscript form * Brief and simple letters and journals * Narration, description, letters, poetry * Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index Health and Safety Personal cleanliness * Dental hygiene * Basic food groups * Communicable diseases * Preventive measures against disease * Neighborhood safety Mathematics * Counting, reading, writing to 1,000 * Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 10's * Ordinal numbers to 10 * Zero as a place holder * Using sets and number facts * Addition and subtraction facts to 20 * Basic multiplication and division facts * Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations * Multiplication properties of 0 and 1 * Place value through 100's * Fractions in daily life * Decimal numeration system * Basic concept of ratio * Geometry puzzles and activities * Estimation * Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape, temperature * Telling time and using the calendar * Handling money (coins) * Problem solving * Charts and graphs