As you start thinking about next year, we hope the following information and suggestions will be helpful.
We look forward to working with you!
Mrs. Hester, Mrs. Whitbread and Mrs. Wilson
Subjects
Math
Major Units of Study
Highlights
•Double and triple digit addition and
subtraction
•Fractions
•Time, measurement, and money
•Patterns and arrays
•Graphing
•Geometry
•Weekly problem solving through
CGI
•Pretest and Post-test for
differentiation
•Hands-on Activities
•Genre studies: fiction vs. non-fiction,
historical fiction. fairy tales, folktales,
fables, and poetry
•Author study: Patricia Polacco
•CROPQV: connection, reaction, opinion,
prediction, question, visualization
•Inferencing
•Story Structure (beginning, middle, end)
•Guided Reading/Book clubs
•Daily Reading Practice
•Books on CD
•Character analysis
•National Day of Reading
•Lexile testing
•Matter
•Sound
•Weather
•Life cycles
•Professor Ken’s labs from Duke
•High Touch- High Tech science
enrichment program
•Daily science investigations
•Science notebooks with scientific
method
•All About… animal research projects
•Small moments
•Poetry
•Fiction
•Persuasive paragraphs
•Group writing project
•Daily Grammar Practice
•Technology integrated writing
•Research skills
•Plagiarism
Social Studies
•Regions of the USA: landmarks, landforms,
celebrations, history, culture
•Geography and map skills
•Economics
•Government
Celebration day for each region:
New York Day, Central Region,
Pickle Day, Southeastern Day, Dia
de los Muertos, Hawaiian luau
Fine Arts
•Students participate in a weekly fine arts
block consisting of visual art, music, drama,
and Spanish
Literature
Science
Composition
Second grade students are assigned to a homeroom class for Morning Meeting, Computer time, Reading, and
Phonics. Students will be flexibly grouped for Math amongst the three teachers. In the afternoons they will
travel as a homeroom class to Mrs. Wilson for Writing, Mrs. Whitbread for Social Studies, and Mrs. Hester
for Science. Students will have a weekly spelling list and quiz, nightly homework, nightly reading, and weekly
typing practice.
Students beginning the second grade at Endeavor are expected to read independently
for a minimum of twenty minutes. They should be able to work independently and
cooperatively. They should be able to write complete sentences with a beginning
capital letter and end punctuation. They should know addition and subtraction facts
up to twenty. They should be able to make a hypothesis and adjust it for accuracy
within the format of the scientific method. Students should also be able to identify
nouns in a given sentence.