Second Grade

Month English Math Science Social Studies Writing/Projects

Aug/September The Sentence Unit 1 Number Sense Plants People and Places Composition

What is a sentence? Number sense to 1000 Plants are Living Things All Kinds of Groups A Worm in my Apple

This unit includes lessons to teach the

Naming Parts and Action Parts
concepts related to numbers within 100 and
within 1000 (comparing and ordering
numbers, reading and writing numbers and
number words, place value to 100 and 1000,
skip counting by 1s, 5s, 10s, 100s to 1000). The
unit starts as a review of numbers to 100 and Review maps, globes, symbols and
builds up to larger numbers within 100. Parts of Plants directions Book Report #1

Living Together/Biography Maggie

Is it a Sentence? Telling Sentences Palnts make new Plants Cervantes/Using a Grid Portrait book report

Questions and Which Kind of

Sentence Everyone needs Plants Cities and Suburbs/ Read a Calendar

Commands and Exclamations Chapter 1 Test Rural Communities/Markets

October Writing a Personal Narrative Unit 2: 2 Digit Addition and Subtraction Animals Ways of Living Composition
 What makes a great personal Writing a Personal
narrative? Animals Narrative

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using

strategies based on place value, properties
of operations, and/or the relationship
Write a personal narrative between addition and subtraction. Animals meet their needs Read a Timeline/Sharing Cultures Project

Family From Many Places/Immigrants

Revising personal narrative Animals grow and change at Ellis Island Ancestors Project

Publish personal narrative chapter 2 Test Read a Timeline/Sharing Cultures

Writing a Freindly letter America's Symbols

Where plants and animals We Celebrate Holidays/ Cesar

live Chavez

November Nouns and Pronouns Unit 3: Addition and Subtraction to 1000 Land Habitats America's Past Composition

Nouns, More Nouns, one and more

than one Life in a Rain Forest First Americans I am Thankful for..
 Add and subtract within 1000, using
concrete models or drawings and strategies
based on place value, properties of
operations, and/or the relationship between
addition and subtraction; relate the strategy
to a written method. Understand that in
adding or subtracting three-digit numbers,
one adds or subtracts hundreds and
hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and
Nouns with -es, Nouns that change sometimes it is necessary to compose or
spelling decompose tens or hundreds. Life in a desert Explorers Travel the World Project

Special nouns, pronouns Life in the Arctic Jamestown and Plymouth Timeline Project

Naming yourself last, nouns endind Where plants and animals

w 's and s' live Past Heroes

Communities Change

December Writing a Story Unit 4: Multiplication Concepts Water Habitats Places Near and Far Composition

Work with equal groups of objects to gain

The Writting Process foundations for multiplication. Life in a fresh water habitat Your address/Parts of a globe Story Writing (Hero)

Choosing a problem Life in a salt water habitat Land and Water Project

Developing a Character
Determine whether a group of objects (up to
20) has an odd or even number of members,
e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by
2s; write an equation to express an even Holiday Celebration
number as a sum of two equal addends. Caring for Earth's habitats Weather and Climate Project

Regions/Identifying Main Idea and

Mapping your story Details (in-class)

Use addition to find the total number of

objects arranged in rectangular arrays with
up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an
equation to express the total as a sum of
Beginning your story equal addends. Resources

Weather and other Earth

January Verbs Unit 5: Division Concepts Changes Our World Composition

Having a solid foundation of what division is

Verbs, Verbs that tell about now, and how it works is the most important thing
Pronouns and verbs to teach children in 2nd grade. Water and Our Weather Places around the world Fact and Opinion

Verbs with -ed, ran, run, came, There are also different ways of looking at
come, saw, seen, went, and gone division such as: Earth can slowly change Cultures in different places Project

division as grouping - how many groups of ...

make ...division as sharing - what is ... shared
between ...division as repeated subtraction, Resources and struggles of different
Did, done, gave, given, is and are division as the inverse of multiplication Earth can change quickly regions Book Report #2

Was and were, contractions Biography Book Report

February Writing Instructions Unit 6: Measurement Earth Yesterday and Today Families Composition

Measure the length of an object by selecting

and using appropriate tools such as rulers,
yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring Martin Luter King
The Writing Process tapes. Clues in rocks Different types of families Writing

Measure the length of an object twice, using

length units of different lengths for the two
measurements; describe how the two
measurements relate to the size of the unit
Using other words chosen. Putting the Clues Together HIstory of Families Project

Measure to determine how much longer one

object is than another, expressing the length
Topic Sentence difference in terms of a standard length unit. Life on Earth Changes Your Family

Complete sentences

March Adjectives Unit 7: Mental Math The Sun and The Earth People at Work Compostion

Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number

100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100
How things Look from a given number 100-900. Day and Night Needs, Wants and Choices Writing Instructions

Taste and Smell Seasons Work/First Farmers Project

 Sound and Texture Goods and Services Book Report #3

Using a and an, adjectives with -er

and -est People Save Money Mobile Book Report

The Moon From Field to Market

April Writing a Description Unit 8: Fractions Moon, Stars, and Planets Government Composition

Partition circles and rectangles into two,

The Writing Process
three, or four equal shares, describe the
shares using the words halves, thirds, half
of, a third of, etc., and describe the
whole as two halves, three thirds, four
fourths. Recognize that equal shares of
identical wholes need not have the same
shape. Moon Changes, Stars Government and People Writing a Description

Using your senses Planets Citizens Make a Difference Project

In-Class Science Fair

Writing Similies Leaders Project

Topic Sentence Different Governments

 More capitalization and
May Punctuation Unit 9: Money and Time Matter Your Mental Health Composition

review about telling time to the whole hour

and to the half hour (from 1st grade), and
learn to tell time to the quarter hour and to
Days, Holidays, and Months the five-minute intervals. Matter All Around Taking care of yourself Persuasive Essay

Tell and write time from analog and digital

clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m.
Titles for People, Writting Book Titles and p.m. Three States of Matter Feelings Project

Ending Sentences, Commas in review counting money and word problems Animal Research
Dates of using money Changing Matter Helping others Project

Commas with names of places,

Quotation Marks

Geography, Ladmarks, and

June Writing to Express an Opinion Unit 10: Geometry, Data, and Graphing Energy Influential People in History Composition

Recognize and draw shapes having

specified attributes, such as a given number
of angles or a given number of equal faces.1
Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons,
Explaining with examples hexagons, and cubes. Heat Special places around the world Bucket List

Partition a rectangle into rows and columns

of same-size squares and count to find the
Openings and Closings total number of them. Light People you should know about Project
 Partition circles and rectangles into two,
three, or four equal shares, describe the
shares using the words halves, thirds, half of,
a third of, etc., and describe the whole as
two halves, three thirds, four fourths.
Recognize that equal shares of identical
Writing with Voice wholes need not have the same shape. Sound Book Report #4

Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with

single-unit scale) to represent a data set with
up to four categories. Solve simple put-
together, take-apart, and compare
problems1 using information presented in a
bar graph. Recipe for a Story