Second Grade Curriculum
Science
September – November:
- Earth Materials
December - February:
- Forces and Motions
March – June:
- Plant Diversity
Social Studies
September – October:
- Our Community’s Geography
November – December:
- New York City Over Time
January – March:
- Urban, Suburban, and Rural communities
April – June:
- Rights, Rules and Responsibilities
Math – Go Math/Engage NY
September - October:
- Number Concepts
October – November:
- Numbers to 1,000
November – December:
- Basic Facts and Relationships
December – January:
- 2-Digit Addition
January – February:
- 2-Digit Subtraction
February - March:
- 3-Digit Addition and Subtraction
March – April:
- Money and Time
April - May:
- Length in Customary Units
May – June:
- Length in Metric Units
ELA – Teachers College
September – October:
- Reading Growth Spurt
- Narrative Writing: Revving up writing muscles
October - November:
- Growing Word Solving Muscles
- Narrative Writing: Lessons from the Masters: Improve Narrative Craft
November – December:
- Becoming Experts: Reading Nonfiction
- Informative Writing: How to Guide to Nonfiction Writing
January – February:
- Studying characters and their stories
- Narrative Writing: Gripping fictional stories
February – March:
- Bigger Books Mean amping up Reading Power
- Poetry Writing
April – May:
- Reading Nonfiction cover to cover: Book Clubs
- Informative Writing: Lab reports and science books
May – June Reading:
- Series Book Clubs
- Opinion Writing about Books
