2nd Grade
Course Description
Second grade instruction builds upon the foundation for students to read, write, listen, and speak effectively. Second graders will become more fluent readers by increasing knowledge of high frequency words, applying phonics, and demonstrating strategies to solve words. Students will build on their communications skills when listening, speaking, reading and writing. They will apply comprehension strategies to develop a deeper understanding of fiction and informational text. Students will write opinion, narrative, and informative pieces. Instruction may be in small groups, whole group, and/or individually, depending on the needs of the students.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Applies Word Analysis Skills When Solving Words
- Reads Grade Appropriate Text Fluently
- Comprehends Grade Appropriate Fiction Text
- Comprehends Grade Appropriate Informational Text
- Reads Independently
- Organizes and Develops Writing to Communicate Ideas for Appropriate Task and Purpose
- Revises and Edits to Improve Writing
- Applies Grade Appropriate Spelling Patterns in Writing
- Applies Grade Appropriate Grammar in Writing
- Writes Complete Sentences with Correct Capitalization and Punctuation
- Participates in Collaborative Conversations
- Reports on a Topic or Tells a Story
Course Description
Second grade instruction consists of inquiry-based skills including questioning, gathering, and using evidence to understand social studies concepts: the history of our nation, a reason for government, local, regional, and global geography, & regional economics. Students will ask and answer compelling questions to guide learning and connect to our world today.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Civics - Describe the Roles and Responsibilities of Citizens and People in Authority
- Geography - Explain How Geography Helps Us Understand Our World
- Economics - Explain How Economic Decision Making is Based on Scarcity and Personal Choices
- History - Recognize and Explain the Significance of National Symbols and People Who Influenced Our Nation
Course Description
Second grade instruction includes concept and skill development through hands-on instruction and practice of basic addition and subtraction facts, introduction to multiplication, real-world problem solving, place value, mental math, measurement, money, time, fractions, graphing and concepts of geometry. Instruction may include whole-group, partners, individual, and/or small groups when needed.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Understand Place Value of Three Digit Numbers
- Use Place Value to Read and Write Numbers Within 1000
- Use Number Patterns to Count
- Use Place Value to Add
- Use Place Value to Subtract
- Measure and Estimate Length in Standard Units
- Develop Foundations for Multiplication and Division
- Measure and Estimate Mass and Volume in Standard Units
- Understand Shapes and their Attributes
- Understands Fractions
- Tell and Write Time to the Nearest Five Minutes, Using A.M. and P.M.
- Count and Show Money Using Bills and Coins
Course Description
Wind and Water Change the Land: students will learn about the surface of the Earth, including what covers the surface of the Earth, how the surface of the Earth is changed by wind and water, and what engineers can do to help solve problems related to wind erosion. This unit emphasizes the Crosscutting Concepts of Stability and Change and Patterns. Tools of the Trade: How do scientists use science practices, scientific tools and measurements to form hypotheses and draw conclusions? This unit emphasizes the Crosscutting Concepts of Structure and Function and Cause and Effect, and highlights the influence of science, engineering, and technology on society and the natural world. Using Waterhouse Hawkins and his dinosaurs as an example, Students explore how tools help scientists learn more, how tools and technologies have changed over the years and how students can use engineering to design a tool themselves. Home for a Penguin unit will have students learn how scientists and engineers work together to solve problems as they engage in the Science and Engineering Practices. The project for this unit is to design a new zoo habitat for emperor penguins that will meet the needs of the penguins and the zoo visitors. The activities in the unit also emphasize the Crosscutting Concepts of Patterns, Cause and Effect, and Energy and Matter. In Helping Seeds Travel, students investigate the needs of plants, parts of plants, biodiversity, and interactions of plants and animals. Students view a phenomenon of a strawberry growing. Throughout the unit, they will figure out what is needed for this to occur. The Crosscutting Concepts of Cause and Effect and Structure and Function are featured prominently as students conduct plant growth experiments and create models of pollen or seed dispersal.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Recognizes changes to earth’s surface
- Compares designs of weathering solutions
- Creates models of land and water formations
- Researches information about water on earth
- Evaluates properties of materials used for a specific purpose
- Evaluates that object components can be deconstructed and reconstructed
- Investigates and classifies properties of different materials
- Evaluates materials to design specific objects
- Collects evidence about temperature change of materials
- Investigates plant needs and growth
- Designs and develops objects that imitate nature
- Collects evidence about living things in their habitats
Course Description
Second Grade Art focuses on thinking creatively and critically through exploratory investigation and collaboration. Students will engage in the artistic processes of planning, creating, and reflecting through practicing the Studio Habits of Mind. A variety of skills, techniques, and media will be developed, including but not limited to: drawing, painting, mixed media, collage, fibers, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics. Students will learn visual literacy strategies and develop empathy by relating to the arts of other times, places, and cultures and will communicate about their work throughout the artmaking process. Students will learn about personal voice (or exhibit curiosity) by exploring their interests and/or backgrounds while creating original ideas
Expected Course Outcomes
- CREATING: Play & Ideation - Brainstorm, collaboratively, multiple approaches to an art or design problem. VA:Cr1A.2
- CREATING: Investigation - Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity. VA:Cr1B.2
- CREATING: Skill Acquisition - Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design. VA:Cr2A.2
- CREATING: Reflect-Refine-Continue - Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork. VA:Cr3A.2
- Responding: Interpret - Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form. VA:Re8A.2
- Responding: Evaluate - Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork. VA:Re9A.2
Course Description
This course will focus on exploring the musical processes of creating, performing, and responding, while forming connections within arts and non-arts disciplines. Students will develop the skills necessary to experience music as a performer and consumer, thus encouraging a lifelong appreciation of music.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Read, notate, perform and create using grade specific rhythms.
- Read, notate, performing and create using grade specific pitches and melodic patterns.
- Follow directions, completes work, and cares for equipment.
Course Description
The Second Grade Health/Physical Education curriculum is based on student’s participation in sequential and developmentally appropriate activities selected by the teachers from the suggested facilitating activities. The teachers will focus on and are not limited to, locomotor (combining two or more) and non-locomotor skills, general space awareness, manipulative skills (passing, throwing, catching), health-related fitness, parts of a workout, benefits of being fit, heart rate, decision making, problem-solving, risk-taking, goal setting, safety, sportsmanship, safety, and first aid as well as disease prevention.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Participate in health-enhancing physical activities
- Participate in a variety of activities that will increase and/or enhance their level of physical activity
- Demonstrate and apply locomotor and non-locomotor skills.
- Demonstrate and apply personal and social responsibilities.
- Demonstrate rhythmic and dance activities.
- Demonstrate and apply manipulative skills.
- Understand and apply safety concepts in the areas of the home, fire, stranger, bicycle, motor, and water.
- Understand how germs are spread.
- Identify symptoms of illness.
- Understand how to prevent the spread of germs.
Course Description
The Library Media program for grades 1-3 will continue to develop students’ abilities to navigate and access a variety of current library resources while learning library skills. The program will emphasize growth as lifelong readers and as appropriate users of current technology.
Expected Course Outcomes
- In order to become lifelong learners and readers, students will be able to find, filter, and apply digital and print resources ethically and responsibly.
Course Description
The goal of our program is to have students spend as much time in their regular classroom as possible. Each English Learner (EL) receives support from a certified ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Teacher. The ESOL teacher provides academic support in all content areas, and partners with classroom teachers and other education professionals to ensure that ELs’ needs (academic, social, personal) are met. Rockwood employs a variety of instructional models to support students’ needs. Students may receive services in class, in a small group, or one-on-one depending on their level of proficiency. All ELs also work on developing portfolios as another way to track their academic growth and their English language development.
Expected Course Outcomes
- English language learners communicate for social and instructional purposes within the school setting.
- English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of language arts.
- English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of mathematics.
- English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of science.