Second Grade Curriculum Overview

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Second Grade Overview

Time4Learning is an online student-paced learning system covering preschool through middle school.

Time4Learning is popular as a second grade homeschool curriculum, for afterschool enrichment, for remediation, and as a summer school alternative.

For second graders, Time4Learning provides online language arts, math, science, and social studies. Both language arts and math correlate to state standards.

Families can use Time4Learning as a self running learning program for core curriculum or as a supplement. The lessons are provided in the sequence below. The simple planning table illustrates how to schedule the lessons across a sample 25 week school calender.

Second Grade Learning Objectives

While in second grade, a child should master the prerequisites for attaining success in the third grade language arts, reading and mathematics curriculum. By the end of any second grade language arts and reading program, students should have added to strategies used for reading comprehension. These include rereading, asking important questions while reading, and looking for context clues. Second grade students should have added to their sight word inventory. They should begin to punctuate their writing appropriately and use proofreading strategies. By applying phonics skills, second grade students should have developed an ability to decode, recognize, and spell more complex words. Students should have been introduced to a variety of literary genres. They should now recognize that they must write for different purposes.

For details about second grade writing standards, please visit Time4Writing.com.

At the end of any second grade mathematics program, students should have mastered addition and subtraction operations through the thousands' place. The idea of "borrowing" or "regrouping" should be well understood. The multiplication and division operations should have been introduced through arrays, equal sharing and equal grouping. Students should understand and apply basic concepts of probability and make reasonable estimates. Students should also be able to measure length to the nearest inch and centimeter, by using standard and nonstandard tools, measure weight and temperature accurately.

2nd Grade Lesson Planning Guide

*This calculation assumes the curriculum is to be covered in 25 weeks
**Since the second grade science and social studies are not a full curriculum, we recommend using them as a unit doing three per week over a five week period.

Second Grade Language Arts and Reading

In second grade, language arts is taught through a succession of 22 thematic units. These lessons include topics such as “Volcanoes,” “Rain Forests,” and, “Maps and Globes” to integrate science and social studies concepts with reading fluency, comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills.

Students are taught second grade reading comprehension skills such as making sense of text, analyzing characters, and recognizing story problems and solutions. Children are taught sentence structure, the writing process, and creative writing through developing narratives, poems, and letters throughout Time4Learning's language arts curriculum.

Second grade phonics instruction focuses on decoding longer words, applying phonics skills to spelling, mastering complex vowel and consonant combinations, isolating and blending sounds, and decoding using letter-sound recognition furthering students’ phonemic awareness through fluency and application.

The 2 nd grade writing component prompts students to write for different purposes (i.e. poems, expository, narrative), to edit for grammar and usage and to compose complete sentences with subject-verb agreement, capitalization, and punctuation, and to use graphic organizers for formatting and brainstorming ideas. For more details on the 2nd Grade lesson plans, please visit our scope and sequence pages.

Second Grade Vocabulary

Time4Learning’s second grade vocabulary lessons continue a pattern of vocabulary building by teaching about antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms. Additional second grade vocabulary exercises are presented within 22 thematic units covering insects, rain forests, maps and globes, fitness, and more. Science vocabulary is introduced in units on nutrition, heat, sound, and light. Second graders improve their reading comprehension by reading or listening to literature with an emphasis on vocabulary. Teacher’s lesson plans include vocabulary lists and optional printable vocabulary worksheets.

Second Grade Math

The second grade math curriculum covers broad areas including pre-algebra, numbers with operations, geometry with spatial reasoning, measurement, and probability with data analysis.

In second grade math, the most visible accomplishment for students is the mastery of operations, such as addition and subtraction through the thousands place value, highlighting the steps of “borrowing” and “regrouping.”

Second grade math expands to introduce multiplication and division with students using pictoral representations and arrays to understand that factors are part of a set. Estimation, beginning fraction concepts, and characteristics of two and three dimensional shapes are explored in depth.

Second grade math culminates in measurement and data analysis as students are expected to become fluent with understanding and differentiating between units of customary measurement and units within the Metric System (ie: inches vs. centimeters) to define length, volume, temperature, time, and weight. Using statistical approaches to collecting, organizing and representing data, students learn how to analyze information and probable events.

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Second Grade Science and Social Studies

Second grade Science focuses on three main units: Patterns in Nature, Force and Magnetism, and Earth and Space. These subject-specific lessons reinforce the 2 nd grade science themes that are taught throughout the integrated language arts program where students read about weather, sound, heat, light and various types of biomes. Try one of our science demos.

Second graders will be able to identify the steps of the life cycle, describe food chains and habitats, learn the laws of magnetism, and will be taught the relationships between the earth, moon, and objects sky.

Second grade social studies enhances student learning through focusing on real-world context such as basic human survival needs, maps and globes, historic places, cultural holidays, patriotism, and jobs. 2 nd grade students will also be exposed to social studies concepts through the language arts curriculum in chapters that integrate the themes of map skills, goods, services, consumers, and producers. Try one of our social studies demos.

2nd Grade Lessons - Time4Learning's Program Structure

Time4Learning provides an interactive student paced curriculum. When the student logs in, they can choose which subject to study. The lessons are organized into units which include multimedia lessons, interactive exercises, printable worksheets for reinforcement, optional parent-teaching guides for more indepth work, assessments, a complete printable lesson plan, and online progress reports.

Reports/ Assessments/ Printable Worksheets. Time4Learning understands the importance of tracking student progress.  Second grade assessments and quizzes are given throughout the chapters and are automatically graded upon completion.  Parents are able to access the grades and assignments in the reports section by using their own logins and passwords.  The reports section is printable, as are the lessons plans. In addition Time4Learning provides second grade printable worksheets. Parental support is also given through our online parents forum where discussions and questions may be posted amongst experienced users and those that are "just looking".

Your child's progress will be built on two proven principles … First work, then play. This age-old structure (as in first the main course, then dessert ) is highly motivating. Engaging in learning leads to success. Help your child succeed with our interactive curriculum. There are thousands of activities, lessons and assessments that will keep your child enthusiastic about learning.

In second grade, the children can use the Time4Learning online timer. This means that parents can assign children an amount of time to complete their lessons. In second grade, we might recommend that you start with 35 minutes of lessons. This means that when they start studying, there is an online timer that counts down from 35 minutes. When the lesson timer reaches zero, the children are allowed to go to the online playground. In fact, most children will complete the lessons that they are involved in, and they only look at the timer after finishing a lesson. When they see that it’s at zero, they can go to the Online Playground. 

The online playground includes over 100 carefully selected games. Some are fun action games, others are learning games but unlike the lessons, they are entirely exploratory.  There is also a playground timer controlled by the parents to limit how long they spend in the playground. While useful to many families, the use of the timer is optional.

Second Grade Interactive Curriculum by Time4Learning for Homeschooling, Afterschool, or Summer School Use

Time4Learning is used as a homeschool curriculum, an afterschool tutorial, or as an excellent alternative to summer school. Time4Learning works well with other programs too, providing educational structure within the home. Learn more.

Many gifted and special needs students find Time4Learning to be an invaluable addition to their education. Time4Learning's benefits to special needs children stems from the freedom to progress at your own pace, to repeat lessons, the patience of the computer, and in many cases, the privacy of self-study on the computers. Parents particularly like that they can have a child working on different levels in different subjects, and that as children progress, adjustments to the grade level are simple and cost-free.

Kids like using the computer to learn and to develop their skills. The Time4Learning educational teaching games give students independence as they progress at their own pace.

Parents like that it tracks progress and helps kids advance by teaching through individualized learning paths that assure mastery of the skills and concepts that makes kids succeed.

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