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Key Learnings

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Second Grade

BIBLE

Exploring His Power: Through Creation, the Israelites, Jesus and the Early Church

• Identify Bible organization (book, chapters and verses)
• Know that Bible lessons help in everyday life
• Know that God is everywhere, all-powerful and all-knowing
• Understand that the "God Family" created the world, one way God reveals Himself to humanity
• Understand that Adam and Eve were created to have a perfect relationship with God
• Know the story of Jesus' birth, death and resurrection
• Realize that salvation is a free gift when accepting Jesus as Savior
• Understand that although sins are forgiven, there are still consequences to choices
• Identify one's spiritual gifts and acknowledge those given to others
• Understand that a consistent prayer life brings peace, protection and answers
• Know that God wants people to trust Him to provide all needs
• Understand that worship and obedience is a natural response to Christ's work in one's life
• Understand the importance of preparing for Christ's return
• Know that God has forgiven and has the power to resurrect
  

FINE ARTS

Art

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories
• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas
• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas
• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures
• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places
• Describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks
• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

Music

• Write whole, half, dotted half, quarter notes and rests
• Demonstrate correct posture and breathing
• Recognize the ABA pattern
• Recognize sudden or gradual changes in tempo
• Recognize sudden or gradual changes in dynamics
• Identify stringed instruments and their sounds
• Listen to classical music
• Learn to locate hymns by page numbers
  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Viewing

• State the main idea or message in visual media
• Explain personal thoughts and feelings after viewing media
• Use picture clues to predict content
  

Listening

• Use appropriate posture facing the speaker
• Provide immediate feedback
• Ask and answer relevant questions briefly and politely
• Determine purpose for listening
  

Reading

• Apply phonics elements in reading and writing
• Decode words in isolation and in connected text
• Know story elements
• Apply a variety of strategies to learn word meanings
• Use comprehension strategies to improve comprehension
• Increase speed of reading while maintaining accuracy
  

Speaking

• Convey clear, focused main idea with supporting details
• Ask questions to clarify information

Visually Representing

• Produce visual media to differentiate real and imaginary information
• Create visual media to demonstrate understanding

Writing

• Form letters and words to be easily read by others
• Correctly spell high-frequency sight words
• Practice the writing process
• Begin using characteristics of good writing
• Evaluate one's own writing
• Develop paragraphs with one topic and at least four supporting details
• Write for various purposes
• Use basic rules of punctuation

MATH

Numbers and Operations

• Count and understand numbers with 3-digits
• Skip count by two, e.g. 23, 25, 27…
• Understand and use ordinals 1-20
• Understand even and odd numbers
• Understand the place value of hundreds, tens, ones
• Given a math fact, construct the other three in the fact family
• Know addition and subtraction facts through 20 by recall
• Add and subtract 2-digit numbers with renaming
• Add and subtract 3-digit numbers with no renaming
• Add a series of three numbers
• Using a number line, explain rounding to the nearest ten
• Write, add and subtract money using appropriate symbol
• Understand situations that entail multiplication and division, i.e. equal groupings of objects and sharing equally

Algebra

• Use patterns to make generalizations and predictions
• Analyze patterns in tables and graphs
• Describe qualitative and quantitative changes involving addition and subtraction
• Understand equivalence concepts using symbols

Geometry

• Investigate and predict results of assembling and disassembling 2- and 3- dimensional shapes
• Find locations using simple coordinates
• Recognize prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones
• Relate ideas in geometry to number and measurement
  

Measurement

• Select and use appropriate measuring tools
• Select and use appropriate units of measurement
• Use different units to measure the same thing
• Use nonstandard units to compare weight of real objects and capacity of real containers
• Estimate the weight of an object
• Apply and use measurements in problems and "real life" situations
• Tell time to the nearest minute (digital) and the nearest 5 minutes (analog)
• Use and compare A.M. and P.M. time designations
• Count coins and dollars to $5.00
• Determine correct change to $1.00 by counting
• Estimate to the nearest dollar
• Use correct symbols in writing money amounts
• Understand one hour of elapsed time
• Identify days and dates on a calendar and one week before and after a certain date on a calendar

Data Analysis/ Probability

• Construct and interpret data using a simple bar graph
• Interpret data as represented in a simple table or chart
• Make predictions, test validity and do a probability study with a 50/50 chance
  

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Spiritual Emphasis

• Recognize that God's ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle
• Incorporate into one's lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God
• Avoid at-risk behaviors
• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports
• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities
• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being
  

Movement and Motor Skills

• Demonstrate mature form - skip, hop, gallop, slide
• Demonstrate mature motor patterns in simple combinations, e.g. dribbling a ball while running
• Demonstrate smooth transitions in sequential motor skills
• Exhibit the ability to adapt and adjust movement skills
• Demonstrate control in traveling activities
• Identify the critical element/s (technique/s) of basic movement patterns
• Apply movement concepts to a variety of basic skills
• Use feedback to improve performance
  

Lifestyle and Fitness

• Experience and express pleasure from participation in physical activity
• Identify at least one activity associated with each component of health-related physical activity
• Engage in sustained physical activity that causes an increased heart rate and heavy breathing
• Recognize the physiological indicators that accompany moderate to vigorous physical activity
• Know how to measure heart rate
• Identify the components of health-related physical fitness
• Gain competence which will provide increased enjoyment in movement
• Try new activities
• Express feelings about and during physical activity
• Enjoy interaction with friends through physical activity
  

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

• Apply rules, procedures and safe practices
• Follow directions
• Work cooperatively with others to complete an assigned task
• Play and cooperate with other regardless of personal differences, e.g. gender, ethnicity, disability
• Treat others with respect during play
• Resolve conflicts in socially acceptable ways
• Practice Christ-like principles in interactions with others
  

SCIENCE

Physical: States/Changes of Matter, Energy Waves: Heat

• Identify the states of matter and their characteristics
• Describe physical changes that occur in matter
• Define heat and describe how it affects matter
  

Life: Amphibians/Reptiles, Insects, Human Body Systems

• Describe the basic needs of living things
• Recognize characteristics that are similar and different between organisms
• Describe how related plants and animals have similar characteristics
• Describe how animals gather and store food, defend themselves, find shelter and adapt
• Recognize the organization of body's systems and organs
  

Earth: Geology: Earth's Structure, Dinosaurs/Fossils; Natural Resources

• Recognize physical differences in Earth materials
• Describe Earth's basic structure and habitats
• Identify examples of common dinosaurs
• Explain fossils as evidence of formally living organisms
• Identify Earth's basic natural resources found and the wise use of these resources

Health: Home/Community Safety, Emotions

• Identify common hazards at home
• Observe rules for public safety and recall appropriate precautions that should be taken in special conditions
• Identify emotions and share feelings in appropriate ways
• Know ways to seek assistance if worried, abused or threatened
  

Scientific Inquiry

• Make observations
• Ask questions/form hypotheses based on observations
• Plan a simple investigation
• Collect data from the investigation
• Use data collected from the investigation to explain results
• Safely use and store tools and equipment
  

Service/Career Options

• Explore ways to use Physical, Life, Health, and/or Earth Science to serve the community
• Identify careers in areas of Science

SOCIAL STUDIES

History: Neighborhoods (Time, Holidays, Neighborhoods: Past and Present)

• Begin using time lines and time words
• Recognize the significance of cultural holidays
• Understand that God is present in one's neighborhood
• Explore one's neighborhood
• Explore neighborhoods in history e.g. early settlers, Native American
• Recognize the significance of cultural holidays
• Understand how the Adventist church helps in one's neighborhood
  

Civics: Ideas about Civic Life, Politics and Government

• Understand the purposes of laws and know how they protect individual rights
• Know current local, national and global leaders
• Know the importance of Christian citizenship
• Develop responsibility through good decision making
• Understand individual roles in groups and government
  

Geography: Geographic Features and Patterns of the Environment

• Classify areas according to climate, vegetation, landform
• Locate where one's family lives on maps of neighborhood, community, state, country and world
• Construct a simple map of one's neighborhood
• Understand the interrelationship between people and the environment
• Know how a neighborhood is part of a community, state and country

Economics

• Understand responsibilities of Christian stewardship
• Know the ways people earn a living in the neighborhood
• Identify the basic needs of individuals, families and communities
  

TECHNOLOGY

• Demonstrate proper use and care of computers
• Begin learning basic keyboarding and computer terms
• Use computers to express ideas with drawing and word processing software
• Learn about the role of technology in business and home
• Learn about technology related occupations
• Practice courtesy and sharing of computer time

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Our key learnings are aligned with the North American Division curriculum guides, national standards, McRel Database (Mid-Continental Regional Educational Laboratory) and Ten Sigma (a compilation of standards for 38 states).

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