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Reading/English/Language Arts

Phonics/Word Identification:  ELA2R1:  The student quickly applies knowledge of letter sound correspondence and spelling patterns to decode unfamiliar words

• Reads words containing blends, diagraphs, and dipthongs

• Recognizes, reads, and writes words containing regular plurals, irregular plurals, and possessives

• Reads compound words and contractions in grade appropriate texts

• Reads and spells words containing r-controlled vowels and silent letters

• Reads and spells words containing irregular vowel patterns

• Reads multi-syllabic words

• Applies learned phonics skills when reading and writing words, sentences, and stories

Fluency:  ELA2R2:  The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy and expression

• Applies letter sound knowledge to decode quickly and accurately

• Automatically recognizes additional high-frequency and familiar words within texts

• Reads familiar text with expression

• Reads second-grade texts at a target rate of 60 words correct per minute

• Uses self-correction when subsequent reading indicates an earlier misreading within grade-level text

Vocabulary:  ELA2R3:  The student acquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively

• Reads a variety of texts and uses new words in oral and written language

• Recognizes and applies the appropriate usage of homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms

• Determines the meaning of unknown words on the basis of content.

Comprehension:  ELA2R4: The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text

• Reads a variety of texts for information and pleasure

• Makes predictions from text content

• Generates questions before, during, and after reading

• Recalls explicit facts and infers implicit facts

• Distinguishes fact from fiction in a text

• Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences

• Self-monitors comprehension and attempts to clarify meaning

• Recognizes plot, setting, and characters within text, and compares and contrasts these elements among texts

• Uses word parts to determine meanings

• Uses dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary skills to determine word meanings

Writing:  ELA2W1: The student demonstrates competency in the writing process

• Writes text of a length appropriate to address a topic and tell a story

• Prewrites to generate ideas orally

• Uses planning ideas to produce a rough draft

• Rereads writing to self and others, revises to add details, and edits to make corrections

• Begins to write a response to literature that demonstrates understanding of the text and expresses and supports an opinion

• Creates documents with legible handwriting

• Uses nouns (singular, plural, and possessive) correctly

• Uses common rules of spelling

• Uses appropriate capitalization and punctuation (periods, question and exclamation marks) at the end of sentences (declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory/simple and compound)

Listening, Speaking, Viewing:  ELA2LSV1:  The student uses oral and visual strategies to communicate

• Interprets information presented and seeks clarification when needed

• Begins to use oral language for different purposes:  to inform, to persuade, and to entertain

• Uses increasingly complex language patterns and sentence structure when communicating

• Listens to and views a variety of media to acquire information

• Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge

Math

NUMBER AND OPERATIONS: M2N1: Students will use multiple representation of numbers to connect symbols to quantities.

• Represent numbers using a variety of models, diagrams, and number sentences      up to tens place.

• Understand the relative magnitudes of numbers using 10 as a unit. Represent 2-digit numbers with drawings of tens and ones.  

NUMBER AND OPERATIONS: M2N2: Students will build fluency with multi-digit addition and subtraction.

• Correctly add and subtract two whole numbers up to two digits each with       regrouping.

• Understand and use the inverse relation between addition and subtraction to       solve problems and check solutions.

• Use mental math strategies such as benchmark numbers to solve problems.

• Use basic properties of addition (commutative, associative, and identity) to implify problems (e.g. 98 + 17 by taking two from 17 and adding it to the 98 to make 100 and replacing the original problem by the sum 100 + 15).

• Estimate to determine if solutions are reasonable for addition and subtraction.

NUMBER AND OPERATIONS: M2N5: Students will represent and interpret quantities and relationships using mathematical expressions including equality and inequality signs (=, >, <).

• Include the use of boxes or ___ to represent a missing value.

• Represent problem solving situations where addition or subtraction may be applied using mathematical expressions.

DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY: M2D1: Students will create simple tables and graphs and interpret their meaning.

• Organize and display data using picture graphs, Venn diagrams, bar graphs, and simple charts/tables to record results.

• Know how to interpret picture graphs, Venn diagrams, and bar graphs.

Process Standards: M2P1: Students will solve problems (using appropriate technology).

• Build new mathematical knowledge thorough problem solving.

• Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.

• Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.

• Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving.

Process Standards: M2P2: Students will reason and evaluate mathematical arguments.

• Recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics.

• Make and investigate mathematical conjectures.

• Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs.

• Select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof.

Process Standards: M2P3: Students will communicate mathematically.

• Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication.

• Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.

• Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.

• Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.

Process Standards: M2P4: Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines.

• Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.

• Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole.

• Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.

Process Standards: M2P5: Students will represent mathematics in multiple ways.

• Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.

• Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems.

• Use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.

Science

Life Science: S2L1: Students will investigate the life cycles of different living organisms.

• Determine the sequence of the life cycle of common animals in your area: a mammal such as a cat or dog or classroom pet, a bird such as a chicken, an amphibian such as a frog, and an insect such as a butterfly.

• Relate seasonal changes to observations of how a tree changes throughout a school year.

• Investigate the life cycle of a plant by growing a plant from a seed and by recording changes over a period of time.

• Identify fungi (mushroom) as living organisms.

Earth Science:  S2E3:  Students will observe and record changes in their surroundings and infer the causes of the changes.

• Recognize effects that occur in specific area caused by weather, plants, animals, and/or people.

Habits of Mind: S2CS1: Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works.

• Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of the questions by making careful observations and measurements and trying to figure things out.

Habits of Mind: S2CS2: Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and following scientific explanations.

• Use whole numbers in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences.

• Readily give the sums and differences of single-digit numbers in ordinary, practical contexts and judge the reasonableness of the answer.

• Give rough estimates of numerical answers to problems before doing them formally.

• Make quantitative estimates of familiar lengths, weights, and time intervals, and check them by measuring.

Habits of Mind: S2CS3: Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities.

• Use ordinary hand tools and instruments to construct, measure, and look at objects.

• Assemble, describe, take apart, and reassemble constructions using interlocking blocks, erector sets and other things.

• Make something that can actually be used to perform a task, using paper, cardboard, wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects.

Habits of Mind: S2CS4: Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.

• Identify the parts of things, such as toys or tools, and identify what things can do when put together that they could not do otherwise.

• Use a model—such as a toy or a picture—to describe a feature of the primary thing.

• Describe changes in the size, weight, color, or movement of things, and note which of their other qualities remain the same during a specific change.

• Compare very different sizes, weights, ages (baby/adult), and speeds (fast/slow) of both human made and natural things.

Habits of Mind: S2CS5: Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.

• Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.

• Draw pictures (grade level appropriate) that correctly portray features of the thing being described.

• Use simple pictographs and bar graphs to communicate data.

The Nature of Science: S2CS6: Students will be familiar with the character of scientific knowledge and how it is achieved.

• When a science investigation is done the way it was done before, we expect to get a similar result.

• Science involves collecting data and testing hypotheses.

• Scientists often repeat experiments multiple times and subject their ideas to criticism by other scientists who may disagree with them and do further tests.

• All different kinds of people can be and are scientists.

The Nature of Science: S2CS7: Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry.

• Scientists use a common language with precise definitions of terms to make it easier to communicate their observations to each other.

• In doing science, it is often helpful to work as a team. All team members should reach their own individual conclusions and share their understandings with other members of the team in order to develop a consensus.

• Tools such as thermometers, rulers and balances often give more information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without help.

• Much can be learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but care must be taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for them. Advantage can be taken of classroom pets.

Social Studies

Introduction of Connecting Themes:

• Distribution of Power

• Individuals, Groups, & Institutions

• Location, Production

• Distribution, & Consumption, Scarcity

• Time, Change, Continuity

Historical Understandings: SS2H1: The student will read about and describe the lives of historical figures in Georgia history.

• Describe how everyday life of these historical figures is similar to and different from everyday life in the present (food, clothing, homes, transportation, communication, recreation, rights, and freedoms).

Geographic Understandings: SS2G1: The student will locate major topographical features of Georgia and will describe how these features define Georgia’s surface.

• Locate all the geographic regions of Georgia: Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau.

• Locate the major rivers: Ocmulgee, Oconee, Altamaha, Savannah, St. Mary’s, Chattahoochee, and Flint.

Government/Civic Understanding: SS2CG1: The student will define the concept of government and the need for rules and laws

Government/Civic Understanding: SS2CG2: The student will identify the roles of the following elected officials:

• President (leader of our nation)
• Governor (leader of our state)
• Mayor (leader of a city)

SS2CG4 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the state and national capitol buildings by identifying them from pictures and capitals of the United States of America (Washington, D.C.) and the state of Georgia (Atlanta) by locating them on appropriate maps.

Economic Understandings:  SS2E2: The student will identify ways in which goods and services are allocated (by price; majority rule; contests; force; sharing; lottery; command; first-come, first-served; personal characteristics; and others).

Map and Globe Skills:

• Use cardinal directions
• Use intermediate directions
• Use letter/number grid system to determine location
• Compare and contrast the categories of natural, cultural, and political features found on maps

Information Processing Skills:

• Compare similarities and differences
• Organize items chronologically
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Identify and use primary and secondary sources

 

 

 

 

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