End of the Year Grade Level Goals

Second Grade Reading and Language:

1.     Recognize grade level sight words with 95% accuracy.

2.    Decode words with several phonetic patterns including: short and long vowels, initial and final blends, digraphs, diphthongs, silent letters,              r-controlled vowels, words with prefixes and suffixes.

3.    Develop vocabulary using context clues, homonyms, antonyms, synonyms, compound words, and multiple meaning words.

4.    Recognize story elements such as characters, setting, sequence, and plot.

5.    Develop and use comprehension skills including: prior knowledge, predicting outcomes, cause/effect, author’s purpose, summarizing, drawing conclusions, character traits, fantasy/realism, main idea, steps in a process, making judgments, fact/opinion, and use of graphic organizers.

6.    Develop and exhibit appropriate clarity, fluency, vocabulary and expression while reading aloud an age appropriate passage or in expressing ideas verbally.

7.    Demonstrate appropriate listening skills to gain knowledge, follow directions, and participate in classroom discussions.

8.    Understand and appreciate different forms of literature by reading from various forms of genre including, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, mysteries, fairytales, folktales, and plays.

9.    Identify and write complete sentences appropriately using capitalizations and age appropriate punctuation marks.

10. Identify parts of sentences including: subject, predicate, nouns, and verbs.

Second Grade Math:

1.     Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

2.    Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

3.    Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.

4.    Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using greater, less, and equals symbols to record results for comparisons.

5.    Fluently add and subtract facts within 20 using mental strategies.  Know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

6.    Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking a part, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions by using drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

7.    Add and subtract two 2digit numbers within 100 using strategies based on place value- trading or borrowing tens.

8.    Use a variety of standard units and tools of measurement to determine length, volume, weight, and temperature.

9.    Identify and compare fractional parts and write the value of the fractional part.

10. Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest 5 minutes, using a.m. and p.m. Solve simple time elapse problems.

11.  Identify coin names and values: penny, nickel, dime, quarter as well as one, five, ten, and one hundred dollar bills.

12. Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using dollar and cents symbols appropriately.

13. Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories.  Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.

14. Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.  Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres.

15. Students will explore beginning concepts of multiplication and division and will solve simple problems using manipulative, pictures, or arrays.

16. Students will understand how to use and record tallies when gathering data.

Second Grade Science:

Life Science

1.     Identify and compare the characteristics of living and nonliving things.

2.    Identify ways in which plants and animals are alike and different while recognizing the basic needs of each.

3.    Recognize and compare the life cycles of plant and animal life and learn ways in which each are classified into groups according to different characteristics.

4.    Identify ways in which people grow and change by studying the human body systems: bones and muscles, heart and lungs, and digestion.

5.    Identify different land and water habitats where plants and animals meet their needs and depend on each other for survival.

6.    Recognize ways in which habitats can be changed by weather conditions, pollution and how people can prevent or reverse the negative effects of pollution.

 Earth Science

1.     Recognize the many properties of the Earth’s surface and how people use natural resources such as rocks, soil, water plants, animals, minerals, and air to meet their needs.

2.    Investigate how paleontologists find Earth fossils of plants and animals to learn about life on Earth long ago.

3.    Students will identify observable objects in space such as the sun, moon, stars, and planets, and understand how Earth is affected in regards to night and day and the four seasons.

4.    Understand how conditions such as temperature and precipitation are constantly changing and identify tools that can be used to measure and observe these changes.

Physical Science

1.     Learn that everything is made up of matter.  Matter has observable properties that usually exist in 3 forms: solids, liquids, and gases.  Matter can be changed physically and chemically.

2.    Identify forces of energy that cause change in the motions of objects. (push, pull, gravity, wind, magnetism)

3.    Identify that sounds are produced by vibrations and can vary in volume and pitch.

4.    Identify ways in which sounds are produced and that sounds can travel through different kinds of matter.