Curriculum by Grade
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Tips for Parents
The following tips may be helpful as your child transitions into second grade:

Allow your child to take on responsibilities and to accept the rewards and consequences of their actions.

Remind your child that you know and the teachers know he/she is capable of doing well in school.

Cedarcrest Academy Curriculum
Second

Reading
• Master basic decoding skills using phonics
• Master oral fluency when reading aloud
• Develop reading comprehension skills
• Summarize the main idea
• Retain specific details
• Use context clues
• Sequence events in a story
• Make inferences
• Correctly spell frequently used and common words

Writing
• Write 2-3 paragraphs using correct grammar and punctuation
• Understand the basics of the writing process
• Write legibly in both manuscript and cursive

Listening, Viewing, and Speaking
• Maintain sustained attention for 35-40 minutes
• Exhibit good listening skills
• Appropriately ask and answer questions
• Recite poems and passages from memory
• Use proper etiquette when speaking

Math Expectations
• Develop a good sense of number through skip counting and working with patterns
• Develop math vocabulary (sum, differences, etc.)
• Master addition and subtraction facts up to 12
• Understand place value to the ten thousands
• Add and subtract with and without regrouping
• Have a basic understanding of multiplication
• Tell time to the minute
• Understand measurement and geometry concepts on grade level
• Observe, collect, classify, organize and compare data using charts and graphs

Evaluations
• Spelling tests are given every other Friday
• Math drills and skills quizzes are given almost weekly
• Reading comprehension worksheets and intermittent quizzes
• Occasional History, Geography, Science, Spanish and Religion tests are given
• Occasional “pop quizzes” are given to test their in-class listening skills

Study Skills and Homework
In second grade students will continue to develop study habits.  They will further expand their note taking skills.  Homework is given daily in Math, Tuesdays and Thursday in Reading, and Wednesday in Spelling.  Students should study spelling words and math facts nightly.  Also, parents should be reading with their child nightly.  They will be given additional homework from the Spanish teacher on designated days.  Homework should take no longer than 30-40 minutes with a designated time for casual reading.  Parents should supervise homework and help his/her child correct errors when necessary.

Specials
• PE
• Music
• Art
• Spanish
• Computer Lab
• Media Center