Second Grade
Concord Christian School endeavors to help produce the mind of Christ in our students and establish a clearly defined biblical world view.
Academic concepts taught in Second Grade include:
- Salvation
- Moses in Egypt
- Details of the Tabernacle
- The Israelites journey through the wilderness
- The first Thanksgiving and Christmas
- Old Testament books of the Bible: Joshua, Judges, Ruth
- Favorite Bible stories
- Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ
- Missions Focus Areas:
- Local – Ronald McDonald House field trip
- International - Nicaragua
- Write complete sentences using proper punctuation
- Identify the subject and action parts of a sentence
- Identify sentence types including telling, command, exclamation, question
- Alphabetize words by the first and second letter
- Identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Plural and singular nouns
- Present and past tense verbs
- Produce written language in the form of a letter, personal story, book report, and research paper
- Study of poetry types
- Phonetic review of vowel sounds, rhyming words, blends, and diagraphs
- Prefixes and suffixes in reading
- Sequencing of story events
- Expression and fluency in oral reading
- Recognize the main idea, the main character, and setting of a story
- Predict outcomes while reading and also draw conclusions
- Identify synonyms and antonyms
- Recognize conflict and resolution in a story
- Addition and subtraction facts
- Recognizing and producing patterns
- Commutative property of addition
- Reading and producing graphs
- Identify horizontal, vertical, and oblique lines
- Fractions including whole, halves, fourths, and eighths
- Identify and count money values
- Identify place values
- Geometry with recognition of polygons, angles, congruency, recognition of various geometric solids
- Adding numbers with regrouping
- Subtracting two-digit numbers with and without borrowing
- Division by two
- Time, temperature, calendar
- Solving story problems
- Basic multiplication
- Map skills
- Consumers and Producers (Project Christmas Store)
- Farming
- Research Indian tribes and their dwellings
- Describe the role of Indians in our history
- Identify the 13 colonies and locate them on a map
- Research and report on famous Americans
- Identify steps leading to the American Revolution
- Field trip to Cades Cove to examine pioneer life
- Scientist and what they do
- Living things with what they do and where they live
- Plants and growth
- Fossils
- Earth Science including what the earth is made of, natural resources, movement
- Light
- Matter and its changes
- Motion
- Your body and how it works
- Field Trip to Safety City
- Art
- Music
- Computer
- Spanish
- Physical Education
- Library
