Grade 2 Team Plan
Eugene Coste School
March – June 2017
English Language Arts
Working
with Words
-Punctuations (capitals, periods, commas,
apostrophes, exclamation points, question marks, commas – use in lists)
-Grammar (nouns, verbs, adjectives, word
endings – s, ing, es, y, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms)
-Phonics (vowels, consonants, consonant
blends, digraphs, clusters)
-Spelling (sight word practice, word wall)
-Personal dictionary practice and use
-Rhyming words (letter sounds)
Reading
Comprehension
-Teacher reading
-Practice silent reading in 25 minute blocks
-Guided Reading
Story
Time
-Picture books
-Novel Study
-Fairy tales
-Modeling
Reading Comprehension skills
Writing
-Complete and combined sentences
-Appropriate sentence starters
-Description in writing
-Creating beginning, middle and ends in
stories (using fairy tales as examples)
-Organizing facts/information using graphic
organizers
-Oral and dramatic presentations
-Shape poems
-Simile and Metaphors
-Book Summary (Robert Munsch)
-Book Report (Robert Munsch)
-Dr Seuss Author Study
-Limerick poetry
-Directions (recipes)
Reading
aloud and group work
*Integrated in all subject areas
Reading
Comprehension/Story Time
-Teacher reading
-Fairy tale features
-Practice silent reading in 25 minute blocks
Spanish
Language Arts
La
casa
Vocabulario:
-Los
lugares de la casa
-Objetos
de la casa
La Primavera
El estado
del tiempo, la ropa, los deportes, las actividades y los animals.
Gramática
Verbos:
Estar, Vivir
La comida
Vocabulario:
-La
pirámide de los alimentos
-La buena
nutrición; comida saludable y n saludable
-El
restaurant
El Verano
-El
estado del tiempo, la ropa, los deportes y los animals
Gramática
Verbos:
Comer, Beber, Cortar, Preparar, Gustar, Pedir, Querer
Science
Boats and Buoyancy
-Recognizing materials that float
and sink
-Manipulating floating materials (make sink,
make float)
-Experiment with floating objects
-Experimenting with floating device that is
stable (how to make it stable)
-Experiment with floating device that carries
a load
-Recognize waterproof materials to construct
a floating device
-Recognize whether rigid or flexible
materials are more effective for a floating device
-Experiment with a floating device that can
be propelled through water
-Design and create a floating device
-Demonstrate knowledge of created floating
device and explain what was created and why
Magnetism
-Identify where magnets are used in the
environment
-Distinguish materials that are attracted to magnets
and those that are not
-Recognize iron fillings and steel attract
magnets and identify metal and nonmetallic objects
-Recognize that magnets have positive and
negative poles (polarity) that attract and repel
-Design a device that uses a magnet for a
purpose
-Understand that most materials are not
affected by magnet (paper, plastic,
etc.) and magnets can work through these materials.
-Compare and measure the strengths of different magnets and the properties of
why they may be stronger/weaker
Small Crawling and Flying
Animals
-Determine local small animals and
insects
-Compare and contrast 3 or more insects
(invertebrates) – spider, worm, centipede (Incl. parts of body, habitat, food
sources and defensive mechanism)
-Identify small animals place in the food
chain (decomposers and plant eaters)
-Understand the relationship between small
animals (3studies) to humans, food chain and the environment
-Defensive mechanisms to avoid predators
–camouflage, flight, keen senses, burrows
-How to care for small animals (class pet
–fish, frog, etc.)
-Identify how animals are helpful/harmful to
humans and the environment
Social Studies
Acadian
Community in the Maritimes
-Provinces in the maritime region and their
physical geography
-Major bodies of water in the region
-Food sources and its relation to geography
-Recreation and its relation to geography
-Languages spoken in the region
-Places and Symbols that represent the
community
-Traditions and celebrations
-Climate
-Who developed these communities? How are they connected?
-Natural Resources found in the region
-What make this community special?
-Who settled here?
-Who were the first people to live here?
(aboriginal groups)
Past/Present/Change
-Transportation, schooling, housing
-Legends and Stories
-Playing cultural games
-Videos
Mathematics
Measurement (Shape and Space)
-Days of the week
- 1 and 2 digit add and subtract
-Regrouping continued
-Months of the year
-Relate days of the week and months of
the year in problem
solving contexts
-Relate the size of a unit to the
number of units to measure
length and weight
-Compare and order objects by length,
height, distance
and mass
-Measure length to the nearest unit
using multiple
copies/iteration
-Demonstrate the moving, turning, flipping
and object does not change its measurements (ex. Water indifferent containers,
rotating solid objects, etc.)
-Word problems
Statistics and Probablilty
-Gather data about friend’s likes and
dislikes
-Answer questions with recorded data
-Interpret graphs (bar and pictographs)
-Construct bar graphs and pictographs with
data to solve problems
-Word problems
Review
-Word problems – solving and creating
-1 and 2 digit addition and subtraction
-Skip counting (forward and backwards)
-Even/odd numbers
-Increasing and repeating patterns
-Graphing (bar and pictographs)
-2-D and 3-D shapes
January – March Newsletter
Grade
2
Eugene
Coste School
English:
Working with Words:
-Punctuation
(periods, commas, apostrophes, exclamation points, question marks, commas – use
in lists)
-Grammar (nouns,
verbs, adjectives, capitals, word endings- s, ing, es, y, synonyms, antonyms,
homonyms)
-Phonics
(vowels, consonants, consonant blends, digraphs, clusters)
-Spelling (sight
word practice, word wall
-Rhyming words (letter sounds)
-Nouns, verbs,
adjectives
-Reading Comprehension
Story Time
-Picture
books
-Introduction into informative books
-Modeling
Reading and comprehension skills
-Picture books
and short novels
- Elements of a
short story: Setting, Characters, Plot, Problem and Resolution
Writing
-Complete and
combined sentences
-Appropriate sentence starters
-Description in
writing
-Paragraph
organizers
-Oral and
dramatic presentations
Science:
Exploring Liquids
-Characteristics of water and other
liquids -Comparisons between water and other liquids -Absorption
-Containing
liquids
-Cooling and heating water (freeze,
steam, evaporation) -Methods of drying liquids (water)
-Importance and
necessity of water to living things and nonliving things.
-Human responsibilities for maintaining
and protecting clean water supplies.
-States of water (liquid, solid, gas)
- Mathematics:
Number Sense:
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Place value
Measurement (Shape and Space)
-Days
of the week
- 1 and 2 digit add and subtract
-Regrouping
continued
Months of the year
-Relate days of the week and months of the year in problem solving
contexts
-Relate the size of a unit to the number of units to measure length
and weight
-Compare and order objects by length, height, distance and
mass
-Measure length to the nearest unit using multiple copies/iteration
-Demonstrate the moving, turning, flipping and object does not
change its measurements (ex. Water indifferent containers, rotating solid
objects, etc.)
-Word problems
Spanish:
La Familia
Vocabulario:
·
abuelo(a), madre,
padre,
hermano(a), tío(a), primo(a), padrastro, madrastra, hermanastro(a)
Estación:
invierno
• El estado del tiempo, la ropa, los
deportes,las actividades y los
animales.
Gramática
Verbos:
ser, tener
Adjetivos:
Para describir el físico: grande, pequeño(a), alto(a), bajo(a),
rubio(a),
moreno(a), gordo(a), delgado
Estructura
de oraciones:
·
Mi mamá es…
·
El pelo de mi mamá es…
·
Mi mama tiene…
Fonética
• Cancionero: silabas con : l. n, ñ, r, v, g
Literatura
·
Poemas
·
Canciones
·
Rimas, adivinanzas y
trabalenguas.
Social
Studies
The Arctic:
-
Explore the geography of an Inuit Community
-
Explore the cultural characteristics of an
Inuit Community
-
Explore the economic characteristics of
Canadian communities.
-
Understand the geography of the land and the
people of Inuit community
-
Explore culture in Canadian Communities
-
Explore Natural Resources in Canadian
Communities
-
Appreciate how aboriginal histories affect my
community
Noviembre- December plan for Grade 2
Spanish and English
language Arts
The
students will continue working on the following skills
-Writing
complete sentences with accompanied pictures
-Punctuation
(capitals, periods, commas).
-Grammar
(word endings – s, ing, es, y)
-Phonics
(vowels, consonants, consonant blends, diagraphs, clusters)
-Rhyming
words (letter sounds)
Integrated
Science, Social Studies, Math, Spanish theme focused on learning about weather.
They will be charting the daily weather for Calgary, Saskatoon, and a city in
Latin America. They will compare and contrast the different weather for these
cities, and what would be appropriate clothing to wear.
Social
Studies
We
will be studying the Canadian Prairies Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba.
-The
kids will be working on a “Prairie Alphabet” and write a list of things found
in the prairies such as;
A
is for Alberta, B is for Blackfoot, C is
for Calgary…
-Recognize
the importance of a compass rose on a map
-Become
familiar with the geography of the Canadian prairies
-Recognize
the importance of a map legend and how to use it.
Math
Number
Review
Basic
addition and subtraction (with pictures, using fingers, and counters)
-Counting by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.
- Numerical Patterns - Crescent and decrescent
- Numerical Patterns - Crescent and decrescent
AB Patterns with shapes and colors
Sorting and describing 2D and 3D shapes
Patterns and Relations
-Understanding, extending and creating repeating patterns
using manipulatives, drawings, actions etc.
-Understanding and demonstrating increasing patterns (numbers
up to 100)
-Sorting objects using 2 attributes and explaining the sorting
rule
-Understand and explain the = sign
-Understand
greater than, less than, backwards, by 2s, 4s, 5s, 20s, 25s
- Tens and ones
- Tens and ones
Art
Mandala project
“Selfie” project (All about me)
Practice for Christmas concert/ Songs
Practice for Christmas concert/ Songs
Gym
Games
Goal- oriented
Stick and puck
Goal- oriented
Stick and puck
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