At the second grade level the students phonetic and vocabulary skills are expanded and refined. The teachers introduce students to the various genres in literature.
Students learn to write character sketches and begin to learn to keep literary logs.
By second grade, the students have become stronger independent readers and do most of their reading outside the basic reader as they read carefully selected literature which challenges their reading skills while continuing to capture the students sense of wonder and imagination. Deserts, bats and fairy tales are a sample of the units of study covered in the second grade language arts program. Tomie de Paolo, Marc Brown and Jan Brett are a few of the major authors studied by the second graders. Mathematics Computation with an emphasis on committing to memory the teen facts and beginning to learn the multiplication facts are essential at the second grade level as the students are now required to do most of their computing in abstract form. The Montessori materials continue to be used on a regular basis to ensure understanding of the basic operations.