GRADE 2
SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE
GRADE 2 LITERACY/ELA PROGRAM
Benchmark Advance/Adelante will be used for the Grade 2 Literacy curriculum. Highlights of the Benchmark program:
- Captivating books engage each student in critical thinking and communication.
- Designed for Florida’s new B.E.S.T. standards.
- Includes Florida “Exploring the Arts” and Florida Civics and Social Studies Library and trade books.
- Integrates Science, Social Studies, and Literary topics.
- Accommodates students with special needs.
- Digital and print components.
YOUR CHILD WILL EXPLORE THE WORLD THROUGH TEXT BY:
- Decoding words with complex vowel combinations (e.g., oo, ea, ou, oi, oy, ow).
- Decoding words with common prefixes and suffixes.
- Writing narrative, opinion, and expository texts that follow rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
IN READING AND WRITING, YOUR CHILD WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Retell stories, including characters, setting, and sequence of events.
- Retell informational texts, including the topic and the important details.
- Demonstrate understanding of the topic of the informational text by using the text features.
- Figure out the meaning of unknown words using picture clues, context clues, and background knowledge.
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic.
GRADE 2 SAMPLE 150 MINUTE LITERACY BLOCK
GRADE 2 SCIENCE PROGRAM
For our Grade 2 Science program, we will be using STEMscopes Florida curriculum and the 5E Model PLUS. This includes:
- Engage
- Explore
- Explain
- Elaborate
- Evaluate
- Acceleration
- Intervention
Grade 2 Units
-Physical Science
-Life Science
-Earth and Space Science
Grade 2 Science instruction includes:
- Science and
Engineering Projects
- Videos
- Science Art
- Science Topic books
- Reading Science
- Read Alouds
- Picture Vocabulary
- Integrating Literacy
- Writing Science
- Integrating Computer
Science, Arts & Coding
- Math connections
- Project-based Learning
GRADE 2 MATHEMATICS
For our Grade 2 Mathematics program, we will be using enVision Florida because it connects problem-based learning with Visual Learning and includes a standards-based curriculum.
Problem-based Learning
- Introduce concepts through a problem-solving experience
- Digital workspace engages students and encourages interactive learning experiences
- Available in Spanish
Visual Learning
- Visual Learning Animation plus interactivity promotes conceptual understanding
- Interactive Practice Buddy vocabulary practice
- Math tools and Math games
- STEM activities
Students will know:
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
- Add and subtract within 20.
- Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
- Understand place value.
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
- Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
- Relate addition and subtraction to length.
- Work with time and money.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Reason with shapes and their attributes (angles, number of faces, etc.).
GRADE 2 SOCIAL STUDIES
For our Grade 2 Social Studies program, we will be using Florida Studies Weekly. The new Florida Studies Weekly is:
- Florida specific content
- Interactive
- Connects students to Florida and National history
- Celebrates all voices and experiences from Florida history
- Supports Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards for ELA and Math
Weekly Units
Social Studies will be taught for 45 minutes daily giving students a more in-depth understanding of the weekly content. Literacy, Arts and Computer Science will be integrated into the Social Studies curriculum through hands-on classroom projects related to the weekly content.