Religion
First Quarter
Students will learn:
• That God the Father sent his Son. Jesus, to be with us and that Jesus is Gods Greatest Gift.
• About the world of Jesus and the beginning of the Church.
• About the sacraments and ways we worship God.
• About Baptism.
• About loving and respecting all of God’s creation
• That everyone is called by God to love and serve him.
Second Quarter
Students will learn:
• About the Bible and God’s love.
• That Advent is a season of waiting and preparing for the coming of Jesus Christ.
• That Christmas is a season to give glory to God.
• About the commandments and how we show love and respect for God, ourselves, and others by following them.
• That at Mass we are united to Jesus Christ and one another.
• About sharing faith in class and at home
Third Quarter
Students will learn:
• About God’s mercy toward us when we fail to follow the commandments.
• About the sacrament of penance and reconciliation.
• How to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation.
• That in the Eucharist we remember and celebrate what Jesus did for us.
• That Lent is a season of preparing.
• That we celebrate the death and Resurrection of Jesus during the Easter Triduum.
• Easter is a season to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Students celebrate the sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.
Fourth Quarter
Students will learn:
• That the Holy Spirit comes to us in a special way in the sacrament of Confirmation.
• That we celebrate the different seasons of the Church year.
• That in Ordinary Time we celebrate Jesus Christ and learn to follow him.
• That the Liturgy of the Word is an integral part of the Mass.
• That the Liturgy of the Eucharist in an integral part of the Mass.
• About ways we continue to celebration of the Eucharist in our lives.
• About the importance of Mary and the Saints.
Language Arts
The second grade English/Language Arts curriculum of St. Damian encompasses the Michigan State Content Standards and Benchmarks and occurs throughout the day across all subjects taught as students learn the skills necessary to be literate individuals.
Integration of the English language arts occurs in multiple ways. First, the English language arts curriculum, instruction, and assessment reflect the integration of listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing. In accordance with the state of Michigan philosophy, the English language arts are not perceived as individual content areas, but as one unified subject in which each of the five areas supports the others and enhances thinking and learning. All of the learning outcomes of the language arts curriculum occur throughout the year in conjunction with one another. Learning outcomes will take place throughout the year as opposed to independent quarters.
Second Grade Learning Outcomes for Language Arts are as follows:
Students will:
• Use knowledge of print-sound mappings to sound out unknown words.
• Accurately read many irregularly spelled words and such spelling patterns as diphthongs, special vowel spellings, and common word endings.
• Read and comprehends both fiction and nonfiction appropriate for second grade.
• Reads voluntarily for interest, to gather information, learn procedures arid for own their purposes.
• Reread sentences when meaning is not clear. • Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs.
• Recall facts and details of texts.
• Read nonfiction materials for answers to specific questions or for specific purposes.
• Takes part in creative responses to texts such as dramatizations, oral presentations, fantasy play, etc.
• Discuss similarities In characters and events across stories.
• Connect and compare information across nonfiction selections.
• Pose possible answers to how, why, and what-if questions.
• Correctly spells previously studied words and spelling patterns in own writing.
• Represent the complete sound of a word when spelling independently.
• Show sensitivity to using formal language patterns in place of oral language patterns at appropriate spots in own writing (e.g., decontextualizing sentences, conventions for quoted speech, literary language forms, and proper verb forms).
• Makes reasonable judgments about what to include in written products.
• Productively discuss ways to clarify and refine writing of own and others.
• With assistance, add use of conferencing, revision, and editing processes to clarify and refine own writing to the steps of the expected parts of the writing process.
• Given organizational help, write informative well-structured reports.
• Attend to spelling, mechanics, and presentation for final products.
• Produce a variety of types of compositions (e.g., stories, reports, correspondence).
• Read with developing fluency a variety of texts, such as stories, poems, messages, menus, and directions.
• Employ multiple strategies to construct meaning, including word recognition skills, context clues, retelling, predicting, and generating questions.
• Employ multiple strategies to decode words as they construct meaning, including the use of phonemic awareness, letter-sound associations, picture cues, context clues, and other word recognition aids.
• Employ strategies to construct meaning while reading, listening to, viewing, or creating texts.
• Respond to the ideas and feelings generated by oral, visual, written, and electronic texts, and share with peers.
• Identify and use resources that are most appropriate and readily available for investigating a particular question or topic.
• Make connections between key ideas in literature and other texts and their own lives, the world around them, movies, etc.
• Discuss aspects of literature including problem/solution, story elements, genres and comprehension strategies including inferring, predicting, before, during and after reading
strategies among others.
• Respond to reading in a variety of ways including orally, written questions, journaling, buddy sharing, etc.
Handwriting
First Quarter
Students will learn:
• The correct paper position, pencil position and arm position for manuscript handwriting
• The basic strokes associated with manuscript handwriting
• The keys to legibility: shape, size, spacing and slant of manuscript letters to practice and perfect manuscript letters
Second Quarter
Students will learn:
• The correct paper position, pencil position and arm position for cursive handwriting
• The keys to legibility: shape, size, spacing and slant of cursive letters
• To read letters in cursive
• To read words in cursive
• The basic strokes associated with cursive handwriting
• Lowercase letters u,w,e,l,b,h,f,k,r,s andj in cursive
• Students learn to join the letters that are learned together and write words in cursive with the letters learned
Third Quarter
Students learn:
• The correct paper position, pencil position and arm position for cursive handwriting
• The keys to legibility: shape, size, spacing and slant of cursive letters
• To read letters in cursive
• To read words in cursive
• Lowercase letters j,p,a,d,g,o,c,q,n,m,y,xv, and in cursive
• Students learn the cursive numerals and practice them
• Students learn to join the letters that are learned together and write words in cursive with the letters learned
Fourth Quarter
Students will learn:
• The correct paper position, pencil position and arm position for cursive handwriting
• The keys to legibility: shape, size, spacing and slant of cursive letters
• To read letters and words in cursive
• All capitol letters in cursive
• Students learn the cursive numerals and practice them
• Students learn to join the letters that are learned together and write words in cursive with the letters learned
• To write using all cursive writing
Social Studies
Second grade Social Studies is a study of people and places. Students build an understanding of history, economics, geography, culture, citizenship, government, national symbols and science and technology in our world during the year. Specific skills are taught during each unit that connects with content to develop critical thinking skills.
First Quarter
• About the places in which people live and the characteristics of different places
• The ways people work together in the classroom and the community by obeying rules
and laws
• Explaining how rules can be made and changed by voting
• Recognizing diversity in communities
• Comparing rural, urban and suburban communities
• Locating communities, states and countries on a map
• Demonstrating map and globe skills
• Showing how to care for the Earth
• Identifying landforms and bodies of water on a map
• Comparing similarities and differences among families in different communities
• Explaining that areas can be classified as regions according to physical criteria
Second Quarter
• Distinguishing between producing and consuming
• Tracing the development of a product from a natural resource to a finished product
• Explaining how people depend on the physical environment and its resources to meet
their needs
• Identifying ways to conserve and replenish natural resources
• Identifying ways people can conserve and replenish natural resources
• That people make choices about earning, spending and saving money
• Making a decision is based on a step-by-step process
• Taxes are used to pay for services provided to the community
• Values of good citizenship
• Reading diagrams
Third Quarter
• Factories are buildings where people produce goods
• The development of goods sold to consumers can be traced from natural resources, which producers turn into finished products.
• Using a compass rose helps people understand directions and follow a route.
• People spend and save their money in different ways; people pay for goods and services in different ways.
• A pie chart is a good way to show information.
• Countries exchange goods by using different means of transportation
• People in the past bartered goods and services instead of using money to get what
they needed.
• Government is a group of people who work together to run a country, city, or state.
• Government leaders and citizens work together to make communities better and safer
places for us to live.
• State government works to establish order, provide security and manage conflict by
making laws and providing services.
• Government collects taxes to pay for services.
• Reading tables is one way to get useful information.
• Congress is part of the government that writes and votes on laws for all our states.
• The president is leader of a country.
• Citizens of the United States must learn about different candidates running for public
office so they can vote for the one best suited for the job.
• Citizens vote for the person who makes the laws in our country.
• America celebrates its heritage through songs, symbols and mottos.
• Using a map grid helps people locate places on a map.
• Each country’s flag is a special symbol.
Fourth Quarter
• Native American groups inhabit diverse regions of our country and have lifestyles
reflective of where they live.
• Native Americans traded with English colonists for different goods.
• St. Augustine, Jamestown and Plymouth were among the first European settlements in
North America.
• A map scale helps a person find the distance between two places.
• More people came to America to form 13 colonies. The colonists fought a war for
independence.
• Paul Revere warned people that British troops were arriving.
• Lewis and Clark explored the American West.
• A time line shows the events of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
• During the 1860’s, a railroad was built to join the East and West Coasts of America.
• Americans began to traffic in African slaves. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass,
who had been slaves themselves, helped other slaves find freedom.
• Sojourner Truth spoke out for the rights of African Americans.
• Many immigrants, hoping for a better way of life, entered the United States through
Ellis Island and Angel Island.
• Holidays mark important events from the past; customs people follow link generations
within a family.
• People all around the world celebrate spring.
• Calendars help people mark time.
• Important local and national landmarks tell about our country’s past.
• Landmarks in ancient China and Egypt tell about their past.
• Artifacts give important clues as to how people lived their daily lives in the past.
Inventions make life easier and more comfortable for people.
• Diagrams are pictures that give information in a succinct way.
• Science and technology change ways people communicate and ways they travel and
move goods.
Math
First Quarter
• Add and Subtract Whole Numbers
• Place Value to 100
• Add numbers with sums to 20
• Reread to solve word problems
• Write and solve related facts
• Count on to find sums
• Use multiple strategies to find sums
• Add a column of up to 4 numbers
• Subtract numbers from 12 or less
• Count back to find differences from 12 or less
• Write and solve related subtraction facts
• Identify, solve and write related subtraction facts in word problems
• Use addition to check subtraction
• Use multiple strategies to find differences
• Identify and write fact families
• Recognize and complete number patterns
• Choose the operation to solve addition and subtraction problem
• Identify a group of 10 ones as I ten
• Identify place and value of digits to 99 using place-value models
• Read and write numbers to 99 using numbers and number words
• Recognize numbers to 99 expressed as tens and ones
• Use various strategies to solve word problems
Second Quarter
• Place Value to 100
• Addition of Two Digit Numbers
• Subtraction of Two Digit Numbers
• Determine the value of a designated digit in a two-digit number
• Write the expanded form of a two-digit number
• Compare numbers using less then, greater then and equal symbols
• Compare and order numbers to 100 using various methods
• Estimate numbers to 100
• Round numbers to the nearest 10
• Count and complete number patterns
• Use ordinals through 100 to identify position
• Read and write ordinal numbers through 100
• Solve problems using logical reasoning
• Choose a strategy to solve a problem
• Identify even and odd numbers
• Count to 100 by 3’s and 4’s using a 100’s chart and real-world objects
• Add ones and tens without regrouping
• Use mental math strategies to add
• Use models to regroup
• Use a variety of skills to solve reading problems
• Add two digit numbers regrouping ones
• Estimate sums of two digit numbers
• Rewrite two-digit addition from horizontal to vertical and add
• Add three numbers with and without regrouping
• Explore various methods of finding sums, with and without regrouping
• Solve problems with more than one step
• Choose a strategy to solve a problem
• Subtract two-digit numbers without regrouping
• Use mental math strategies to subtract ones or tens
• Identify more than one way to write a number
• Use models to regroup 1 ten as 10 ones
Third Quarter
• Subtraction of Two Digit Numbers
• Place Value to 1000
• Addition and Subtraction of Three Digit Numbers
• Subtract two-digit numbers with regrouping
• Subtract one-digit numbers from two-digit numbers with regrouping
• Estimate differences of two-digit numbers
• Rewrite two-digit subtraction from horizontal form to vertical form and subtract
• Use addition to check subtraction
• Practice subtraction with and without regrouping
• Solve chain operations involving addition and subtraction
• Solve word problems using addition and subtraction
• Use a variety of methods to solve word problems
• Decide whether to estimate or find an exact answer to a problem
• Recognize 10 tens and I hundred
• Read and write numbers and number words for 100-900
• Recognize place value of numbers to 900
• Identify the place value of a designated digit in a 3-digit number
• Write 3-digit numbers in expanded form
• Count by l’s,2’s 3’s, 4’s, 6’s, 7’s, 8’s, 9’s, 10’s, 25’s, 50’s and 100’s
• Compare two 3-digit numbers using symbols
• Order 3-digit numbers from least to greatest and from greatest to least
• Use information in a table to help solve math problems
• Round numbers to the nearest hundred
• Make and use an organized list to solve problems
• Choose a problem solving strategy
• Add 3-digit numbers with and without regrouping
• Use mental math strategies to add 3-digit numbers
• Count on by l’s, 10’s and 100’s
• Explain and use patterns with numbers
• Add money with and without regrouping
• Use the regrouping strategy to find information in a problem
• Subtract 3-digit numbers with and without regrouping
• Count back by l’s, 10’s and 100's
• Explore regrouping using models
• Subtract money with and without regrouping
• Round 3-digit numbers to the nearest hundred, then add or subtract to estimate
• Use logical reasoning to solve a problem
• Choose a problem solving strategy
Fourth Quarter
• Money and Time
• Geometry
• Data and Graphs
• Measurement
• The value of a group of coins consisting of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and 1/2 dollars
• To show money amounts in more than one way
• To give the fewest number of coins to equal a given amount
• To compare money to the cost of an item
• To find the amount of change after making a purchase
• To apply regrouping in addition and subtraction of money
• To identify a dollar bill and a dollar coin
• To count and find amounts of coins equal to a dollar
• To identify place value of money amounts
• To find the value of a group of bills and coins
• To tell time to the hour, !6 hour, ¼ hour, 5 minute intervals
• To tell time in 2 ways- before the hour and after the hour
• To determine elapsed time
• To tell what time it will be in a given length of time
• To read a schedule to solve math problems
• To estimate the duration of an event
• To read and interpret a calendar
• To use the Guess and Test strategy to solve a problem
• To choose a strategy to solve a problem related to time or money
• Identify cones, cubes, cylinders, pyramids, rectangular prisms and spheres
• Identify flat and curved surfaces of solid figures
• Identify the faces, edges and vertices of solid figures
• Make plane figures by tracing flat surfaces of solid figures
• Identify circle, triangle, rectangle and square
• Identify the number of sides, vertices, and angles of closed plane figures
• To sort plane figures and solid figures by I and 2 attributes
• Identify congruent figures in different orientation
• Draw a figure congruent to one shown
• Identify and draw a line of symmetry, slides and flips, turns, and distinguish the difference
• To combine and separate figures to form other figures
• To predict the result of combining or separating figures
• To understand math words in order to solve math problems
• Locate ordered pairs on a coordinate grid
• Use a pattern to solve problems
• Use information from a table to problem solve
• Use information from a tally chart to make a pictograph, read and interpret a pictograph
• Use information from a tally chart to make a bar graph, read and interpret a bar graph
• Gather, record and interpret data and construct survey questions
• Find the range, mode and median and describe data using it
• Predict future data based on present data
• Compare data from 2 different sources
• Read and interpret circle graphs, line plots, Venn diagrams, and use information to problem solve
• Estimate and measure length using nonstandard units of measure.
• Compare and order objects by length.
• Estimate and measure length to the nearest % inch, in feet, yards, height,
• Choose inches, feet or yards as the most appropriate unit of measure.
• Find equivalencies of cups, pints, quarts, gallons
• Choose cups, pints and quarts as the best unit of capacity
• Use problem solving methods related to measurement
• Measure and estimate weight in ounces and pounds and order objects by weight
• Choose ounces or pounds as the best measure
• Estimate length and height in centimeters and meters
• Measure the perimeter of a figure in inches and centimeters
• Estimate and find the area of a figure in square units
• Choose grams or kilograms as the best unit of mass
• Choose the best estimate for capacity in liters
• Find the volume of a solid figure
• Read a thermometer in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit and compare temperatures
• Identify appropriate units of measure and the appropriate tool to use
Science
First Quarter
• All things are made of matter, which can be a solid, liquid, or gas.
• Matter can change physically or chemically.
• Everything is made up of matter and has mass.
• Matter can be a solid, liquid or a gas.
• Matter can undergo a physical change or a chemical change.
• Energy, the power to make matter move or change, can take the form of heat, light or
sound.
• Energy is the power to make matter move or change.
• Heat, one kind of energy, can change the state of matter.
• Light, another kind of energy, lets us see. It travels in straight lines.
• Sound, a third kind of energy, is produced when something vibrates.
Second Quarter
• Forces- pushes and pulls- move things. Friction slows down movement. Levers and
ramps are simple machines that make movement easier.
• Pushes and pulls are forces that make something move or change direction. Gravity is a force that pulls things toward Earth.
• Friction is a force that slows down moving things.
• Simple machines, such as levers, make moving things easier.
• A ramp, a simple machine with a slanted surface, makes it easier to push a load to a higher place.
• Magnetic force can push and pull.
• Magnets have many uses in homes and workplaces. Earth’s north and south poles are
giant magnets.
Third Quarter
• Changes in Earth’s weather are caused in part by the water cycle.
• Earth changes slowly through erosion and quickly through earthquakes, landslides and
volcanoes.
• As water evaporates and condenses in the water cycle, it creates rain and snow.
• Wind and water can wear away or move rock, soil and sand.
• Earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes cause quick changes in Earth’s surface.
• Fossils give us clues about plants and animals that lived long ago and are now extinct.
• Some living things today are becoming extinct because they cannot meet their basic
needs.
• Fossils are what is left of living things from the past.
• Scientists use fossils to learn about what animals that lived in the past, especially
dinosaurs.
• Living things become extinct when they can no longer meet their needs.
• Earth’s rotation on its axis causes day and night, while its orbit around the sun causes
seasons
• The moon orbits Earth, while Earth and other planets orbit the Sun.
• Stars are huge objects that produce their own heat and light.
• The moon does not produce light and seems to move because of Earth’s rotation.
• The moon seems to change shape because of how light from the sun shines on it
Fourth Quarter
• Plants are living things that come in many shapes, sizes and colors.
• The parts of plants help them meet their needs and make new plants.
• Plants make seeds that grow new plants.
• We use plants for various things.
• Animals are classified into six groups.
• Animals need air, water and food to meet their needs.
• Baby animals grow up to look like their parents.
• Different plants and animals live in different habitats.
• Animals and plants form food webs in the ocean
• We can reduce pollution in Earth’s water, air and land