WELCOME TO

SECOND GRADE

Ms. Miranda Gera

mgera@arlington.k12.ma.us
Website:
http://msgerasecondgrade.weebly.com

Language Arts
Reading
Readers Workshop
Whole Group Instruction
Fiction and nonfiction text
Reading response writing
Read to Self
Read to Someone
Work on Writing
Word Work
Listening to Reading / RAZ Kids / iPad / Scholastic News

Students choose to work on two/three while teacher works with small

reading groups and conferences with children
Builds independence

Fundations
Daily whole group instruction
Hands on activities to teach phonics and spelling

Weekly trick words introduced and added to word wall

Bi-weekly unit tests to assess understanding of spelling concepts taught

Writing
Writers Workshop: Lucy Calkins
Students write in a variety of genres including personal narrative (small
moments, opinion writing, informational writing, and poetry

Students use the writing process: brainstorm, draft, revise/edit, publish

and share

Math
TERC Investigations

Students spend time exploring problems in depth

Students develop their abilities to reason mathematically (to explain, justify, make
conjectures and generalize)
Students develop their own strategies and approaches
Work in a variety of groupings (individually, pairs, small groups, whole class)
Students explore mathematics in their environment and make connections

Math Facts
Addition facts 0-20

Subtraction facts 0-18

Home reinforcement and practice
Play a variety of number sense games

Place value

Money
Coin identification and value

Adding coins and dollars

Time
Hour, half hour, quarter hour

Analog and digital time

Calendar-months of year, days of the week

Data Analysis

Measurement
Linear measurement

Picture graphs
Bar graphs
Plot graphs
Pie graphs
Line graphs

Geometry
Exploring and Identifying Shapes
2D 3D Geometry
Fractions

Social Studies
Geography

Name and locate continents

Name and locate oceans
Directions on a compass rose
Basic map skills
Important landmarks

Teosinte and Japan

Arlington sister schools

Geographical features
Culture
Home and school life
Arts and crafts
Comparing and contrasting Teosinte and Japan

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Science
Physical Science: Solids and Liquids

 Earth Science: Pebbles, Sand and Silt

Life Science: Insects

The Great Body Shop

The Great Body Shop is an exciting, comprehensive health education and
substance abuse prevention program. The following are the second grade
sequence of units:

Lets Stay Safe

How you think
The Wide World of Food
Your Heart, Small but Strong
When I Feel Afraid
Babiesand How you Grew
Drugs are Dangerous
Germs! They Make You Sick
Me and My Skin
Muscles in Motion

Open Circle
Open Circle is a comprehensive social competency program that supports
elementary school children in developing the social and emotional skills needed
to be good learners and to form healthy, positive relationships with people.
Lesson Topics include:

Being a good listener

Including one another
Cooperating
When to tell a responsible adult and when to handle a situation yourself
Teasing

Recognizing differences
Getting calm
Problem solving

The goal of these lessons is to create a cooperative classroom environment and

to give children the skills they need to solve interpersonal problems and to build
positive relationships.