2nd Grade
Our Christian teachers are trained to teach from a holisitic, Christ-centered curriculum that provides an enriched learning experience to enhance the child’s age appropriate development. Our 2nd Grade program is designed to help your child think critically and apply their learning in in cross-curricular ways. Our teachers will guide students in the transition from learning how to read into reading to learn and becoming more responsible and mature learners. Your child will develop life skills through enriching experiences with Bible, music, art, PE, and library and teacher-directed lessons that emphasize mastery and deep reflection. Technology is incorporated into the classroom and teachers use a variety of assessments and instructional strategies to support your student’s needs. Our goal is to foster the individual growth of each child spiritually, socially, academically and physically.
BIBLE AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Bible study and prayer is a very important time for our second graders. The Bible is interwoven into all curriculum areas. Using Deep Roots, second graders focus on the New Testament, specifically the Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Students are encouraged to apply Biblical lessons to their own lives and spend time reviewing character traits such as obedience, respect and responsibility. Students participate in Lower School Chapel and House Meetings each week. They also join K-12th grade students in All School Chapel several times throughout the year. For more information on House Chapels, please visit page 13.
SOCIAL STUDIES
The second grade Studies Weekly curriculum focuses on branches of government, Native Americans up to the Revolutionary War and beginning of our nation, as well as basic economic principles. Students will begin to develop a patriotic appreciation as they see how God guides in the building of a country and studies various contributors to our nation’s history. We believe history is “His story” and that history facts in the Bible are accurate and show how God is in control of events of world history.
LANGUAGE ARTS
The Savvas MyView curriculum combines a whole language and phonetic approach to teaching reading, writing, spelling and English skills. Reading familiar classic and contemporary works, second graders increase fluency and demonstrate understanding by producing a variety of projects. Students transition to reading longer texts with less picture support and complete several novel studies throughout the year, including The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Frindle.
SCIENCE
The Pearson Interactive Science curriculum allows students to plan and to conduct investigations to develop the skills for making measurements using non-standard and standard units. The goal is to stimulate the students’ interest in science through a study of the wonders of God’s creation and the components and processes of the natural world, including the water cycle and use of resources. Second graders observe melting, evaporating, weathering, and pushing and pulling of objects. Students also observe living and nonliving things, needs of plants and animals, functions of plants, and how living organisms depend on their environment.
MATHEMATICS
The Texas Go Math curriculum is used in all of our elementary classes. This mathematics curriculum provides students with sequenced math lessons while learning problem solving skills. The students memorize facts and learn to solve multi-step problems. Whole number addition and subtraction problems are solved first with concrete models and then with symbolic representation to achieve fluency. The curriculum is supplemented by charts, games, visuals and flashcards.
