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Grade 2

Courses

Language Arts

Literature and Informational Text: 

Students will learn to:

  • Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate an understanding of key 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.
  • 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.
  • Use the information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate an understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
  • Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
  • Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate an understanding of key details in a text.
  • Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
  • Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
  • Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
  • Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
  • Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
  • Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.
  • Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
  • Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

Writing: 

  • Write opinion pieces.
  • Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic.
  • Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
  • With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
  • With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
  • Research to Build and Present Knowledge:
  • Participate in shared research and writing projects.

Speaking and Listening:

  • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
  • Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
  • Build on others talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
  • Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.
  • Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
  • Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
  • Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
  • Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
  • Produce complete sentences when appropriate to the task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Phonics/Spelling:

  • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  • Short Vowels
  • Long Vowels
  • Controlled Vowels
  • Blends
  • Three-letterer blends
  • Diagraphs
  • Diphthongs 
  • Silent Letters
  • Closed Syllables and Open Syllables
  • Consonant + le Syllables

Vocabulary:

  • Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
  • Use context as a clue to identify the meaning of a word or phrase.
    • Inflectional Endings 
    • Root Words
    • Context Clues
    • Prefixes
    • Suffixes
    • Multiple-Meaning Words
    • Similes
    • Compound Words
    • Synonyms
  • Antonyms
  • Idioms
  • Homophones

Grammar:

  • Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  • Contractions
  • Commands and Exclamations
  • Subjects
  • Predicates
  • Expanding and Combining Sentences
  • Nouns
  • Verbs
  • Quotation Marks
  • Pronouns 
  • Adjectives 
  • Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases
Mathematics
  • Numbers to 1000
  • Addition up to 1000
  • Problem Solving
  • Using bar Models
  • Addition and Subtraction.
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Multiplication tables of 2, 5 & 10
  • Metric Measurements of length.
  • Mental Math and estimation.
  • Money
  • Fractions
  • Customary Measurements of length
  • Time
  • Graphs and line plots
  • Lines and Surfaces
  • Shapes and Patterns
Science

Animals

  • Animal needs.
  • Animals’ classification
  • Animal life cycles
  • Habitats

Plants

  • Plant needs
  • Plants growth 
  • Parts of the plant
  • Life cycles of plants

Environments for living things.

  • Plants and animals’ interaction
  • Plants and animals’ adaptation

Earth’s Resources

  • Earth changes
  • Natural resources

Weather and Seasons

  • Weather changes
  • Sun’s effect on Earth
  • Weather patterns

Solar system

  • Planets 
  • Stars
  • Day and night

Changes in matter

  • Properties of matter
  • Measuring matter volume
English Social Studies

People and places

  • All kinds of groups
  • Living together
  • Cities, suburbs, and rural communities

Places near and far

  • Your address
  • Land and water
  • Weather and climate
  • Regions
  • Resources

Ways of living

  • Families from many places
  • Sharing cultures
  • America’s symbols

People at work

  • Needs, wants, and choices
  • Work
  • Goods and services
  • People save money

America’s past

  • Explorers travel the world
  • Past heroes
  • Communities change
  • Communication changes

America’s government

  • Government and people
  • Citizens make a difference
  • Laws and leaders
French
  • Alphabet
  • Numbers to 20
  • Days /months
  • Colors
  • School materials
  • Greeting
  • Presentation
  • Say the date
  • Ask a permission
  • Count to 50
  • Subject pronoun
  • Verb “aimer”
  • Negative
  • Know the sound {ɛ̃}
  • Say the time –hour
  • Verb “etre”
  • Adjectives
  • Verb “porter”
  • Clothes & colors
  • Verb “to go”
  • Places
  • The transportation
  • Verb “avoir”
  • How old are you?
  • Sound {œ}
  • Review (avoir/ etre)
  • Describe a person
  • Hair and eyes colors
  • Describe adjectives
German
  • Identify the names of the days and seasons.
  • Identify modal verbs.
  • Ask “What is this”.
  • Understand and learn the names of pets.
  • Learn the articles (der, das, die), (ein – eine)
  • Be able to say:” This is – These are “
  • Be able to say “I have a pet”.
  • Learn how to describe your favorite animal.
  • Learn what can animals do.
  • Understand and respond to questions about drinks and food.
  • Be able to say “I am hungry and thirsty”.
  • Learn how to say “I want and I don’t want”.
  • Learn the names of different food and drinks.
  • How to say “This tastes good – This does not taste good”.
  • Understand different prepositions indicating location.
  • Learn how to ask someone to accompany you to a place.
Arabic

تتبع المدرسة مناهج وزارة التربية والتعليم كاملة دون تغيير وهي كالتالي

من أكون ويتحدث عني وعن أسرتي ويتم تعليم الحروف من خلاله

العالم من حولي ويستكمل الحروف الهجائية

كيف يعمل العالم ويتحدث عن الطبيعة والإنسان

التواصل ويتحدث عن التواصل مع الأصدقاء والآخرين

 

ويحتوي المنهج على مجموعة من الأساليب والتراكيب التي تدرس كاملة و هي

أسماء الإشارة هذا – هذه – هؤلاء

المد الألف – الواو – الياء

ضمائر المتكلم أنا – نحن,  ياء الملكية, الشدة اللام الشمسية و اللام القمرية 

Information Technology

Computer culture

  • Discover the components of a computer.
  • Create folders and subfolders.

The nature of technology

  • The difference between input & output
  • Recognize different computer terms.
  • Explain the importance of computers.

Finding information

  • Way to narrow their search to find the right answers
  • Format tools in order to organize word documents

Presenting information

  • The meaning of a presentation
  • Reasons we use Microsoft Office
  • PowerPoint to present data
  • A tour through the PowerPoint interface
Art

Plenty of patterns

  • Line
  • Shape
  • color

Alternating pattern prints

  • Animals
  • Fantasy
  • Color

Bird masks

  • Shape
  • Craft
  • Symmetry
  • Color

Drawing a crowd

  • Line
  • Groups
  • Unity and Variety
  • Space
  • Color

The Harbor at night

  • Landscape
  • Line
  • Color
  • Shape

Folded animals

  • Line
  • Color
  • Craft

Two-faced puppets

  • Color
  • Craft

A snowy day

  • Landscape
  • Shape
  • Line
  • Contrast

Flower tints

  • Texture
  • Color

Our town

  • Line
  • Shape
  • Buildings and machines
  • Color

Fantastic fishes

  • Non-objective
  • Color
  • Shape

Shape into form

  • Shape
  • Line
  • Symmetry
Music
  • The Beat Tree
  • Playing Do major scale
  • Beat vs rhythm
  • Winter show performance
  • The whole note
  • The half note
  • The quarter note
  • The eighth note
  • Create a tempo line
  • Play a Tempo line
  • Exploring Xylophone
  • Playing DO- major forward and backward
  • Playing the two songs with Keyboard tempo
Physical Education

Practice rules, safety regulations, and procedures

  • Body space (general space) and directions
  • Kick the ball
  • Soccer
  • Coordination with manipulatives
  • Volleyball
  • Circuit Training
  • Softball/baseball
  • Balance
  • Basketball
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Handball
  • Gymnastics