Grade 2 Team

Key Ideas and Details

• Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of keys details in a text.
• Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
• Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Craft and Structure

• Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
• Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
• Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

• Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting or plot.

Number and Operation

• Compare and represent whole numbers up to 1000 with an emphasis on place value and equality.
• Demonstrate mastery of addition and subtraction basic facts; add and subtract one- and two-digit numbers in real-world and mathematical problems.

Algebra

• Recognize, create, describe, and use patterns and rules to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
• Use number sentences involving addition, subtraction and unknowns to represent and solve real-world and mathematical problems; create real-world situations corresponding to number sentences.

Geometry and Measurement

• Identify, describe and compare basic shapes according to their geometry attributes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle, trapezoid, hexagon, cube, rectangular prism, cone, cylinder and sphere).
• Use a ruler to measure lengths to the nearest centimeter or inch.
• Tell time to the quarter-hour and distinguish between a.m. and p.m.
• Identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Find the value of a group of coins and determine combination of coins that equal a given amount.

Nature of Science and Engineering

• Raise questions about the natural world and seek answers by making careful observations, noting what happens when you interact with an object, and sharing the answers with others.
• Identify a need or problem and construct an object that helps to meet the need or solve the problem. Describe why some materials are better than others for making a particular object and how materials that are better in some ways may be worse in other ways.

Physical Science

• Describe objects in terms of color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, strength and the types of materials in the object.
• Observe, record and recognize that water can be a solid or a liquid and can change from one state to another.
• Demonstrate that objects move in a variety of ways, including a straight line, a curve, a circle, back and forth, and at different speeds. Describe how push and pull forces can make objects move. Describe how things near Earth fall to the ground unless something holds them up.

Earth and Space Science

• Measure, record and describe weather conditions using common tools.

Life Science

• Describe and sort plants into groups in many ways, according to their physical characteristics and behaviors.
• Recognize that plants need space, water, nutrients and air, and that they fulfill these needs in different ways.
• Describe the characteristics of plants at different stages of their life cycles.

Art

• Identify the elements of visual art including color, line, shape, texture and space.
• Identify the tools, materials and techniques from a variety of two-and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics or sculpture.
• Create original two- or three-dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences or stories.

Music

• Identify the elements of music including melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, tone color, texture, form and their related concepts.
• Sing and play with accurate pitch, rhythm and expressive intent.

• Perform locomotor skills (hopping, skipping, running, galloping, and leaping) while maintaining balance.
• Balances on different bases of support, demonstrating muscle tension and extensions of free body parts.
• Performs manipulative skills (throwing, catching, dribbling, rope-jumping) while maintaining balance.

School-wide Technology Integration

• Use technology (desktop computers, iPads, Chromebooks and Smart Boards) to enhance and personalize learning.

Wonders 2020 Literacy Curriculum
Math Expressions
Reagan Tunstall
IXL
PLTW
Discovery Education