The continued development of Reading, Language Arts, and Math skills continue to be central in second grade.
Children learn spelling rules and begin taking regular spelling tests.
We introduce the children to relatively complex vowel combinations, digraphs, and consonant blends. Comprehension skills, involving fact recall, event sequence, and inference, are stressed. To encourage a sense of autonomy and independence, we invite the children to select titles for their private reading. The city's ethnic neighborhoods present wonderful opportunities to explore the diversity among cultures and learn history through a study of immigration. The science curriculum in second grade involves the children in studying magnetism, building and understanding simple machines, and learning how their body systems function.